A new ransomware has been discovered recently and among its distinguishing characteristics it’s the fact that it pretends to be Google Chrome browser. ESET’s security solutions detect this threat as Win32/Filecoder.NFR and it was first analyzed by Emsisoft, which named it Ransom32. It works in the form of ‘Ransomware as a Service’ (RaaS) from a hidden … More Ransom32, a new Filecoder in sight
Data breaches are coming thick and fast. Gemalto estimated there were 888 data breaches in the first half of 2015 alone, resulting in 246 million compromised records, while IBM research indicated that the average, consolidated total cost of a data breach last year hit $3.8 million, marking a 23% increase over 2013. 2015 has been … More 5 of the most devastating data breaches of 2015
Leading shipping organisations have come together to tackle cybercrime by publishing the first set of guidelines designed to help their industry deal with this growing threat. BIMCO, CLIA, ICS, INTERCARGO and INTERTANKO, as well as other partners, have developed the document in response to new risks that have emerged with technological innovation. Now that ships … More Shipping industry gets its first set of cybersecurity guidelines
On December 23rd, 2015, around half of the homes in the Ivano-Frankivsk region in Ukraine (population around 1.4 million) were left without electricity for a few hours. According to the Ukrainian news media outlet TSN, the cause of the power outage was a “hacker attack” utilizing a “virus”. Looking at ESET’s own telemetry, we have … More BlackEnergy trojan strikes again: Attacks Ukrainian electric power industry
Social engineering plays an important part in a significant number of cyberattacks, however big, small or sophisticated the crime is. In fact, as ESET’s senior researcher David Harley has previously observed, it has “been a constant all through the life of internet security”. But what is it exactly? In its broadest sense, social engineering is … More 5 things you need to know about social engineering
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