ESET analyses multiple samples targeting OS X every day. Those samples are usually potentially unwanted applications that inject into browsers display advertisements while the victim is browsing the web. For the last few weeks, we have been investigating an interesting case where the purpose of the malware is to steal the content of the keychain … More New OSX/Keydnap malware is hungry for credentials
…but the real winner is the security conscious Irish IT and business, with their maturity when it comes to understanding the modern threatscape. All members of the global ESET family gather once per year for the World Partner Conference, where new products and releases are announced and discussed, experience in fighting cybercrime is shared and … More ESET Ireland wins New Business Champion Award 2016
From customer credit card details that ease the flow at online checkouts to employee records that are vital to HR departments, today’s businesses are built on sensitive data. In many ways, it’s the lifeblood that makes the modern company tick. If experience is anything to go by, though, it can also feel like the next … More Data leak dangers: Know your weak spots
ESET Ireland warns of a new scamming campaign targeting Irish Water customers, as well as the re-appearance of an older scam which aims at Electric Ireland customers. Wexford-based ESET Ireland’s cyber security experts are reporting a new surge of phishing emails, trying to scam Irish users for money. While scams abusing the names of known Irish banks are still doing … More Irish Water and Electric Ireland customers targeted in latest online scams
Disconnected from the internet and without audio speakers and microphones, air-gapped computers may be the safest option for protecting an organization against security breaches, but as we know from the Stuxnet outbreak, they aren’t foolproof – a fact that researchers in Israel set out to explore. Scientists at the Cyber Security Research Center at Ben-Gurion University … More ‘Fansmitter’ malware can extract data from air-gapped computers
