When cybersecurity vendors invest heavily into sophisticated malware replication mechanisms studying real-life malware behavior in isolated environments, one may ask what the point of malware tracking is. What do we learn by extracting data from malicious code without it running or communicating with a command and control (C&C) server? Using the Grandoreiro banking trojan as … More Why botnet tracking is so effective
An overview of the activities of selected APT groups investigated and analyzed by ESET Research in Q2 2024 and Q3 2024. ESET APT Activity Report Q2 2024–Q3 2024 summarizes notable activities of selected advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that were documented by ESET researchers from April 2024 until the end of September 2024. The highlighted … More ESET releases latest Q2 2024–Q3 2024 APT report: APT groups expand targeting and diplomatic espionage
ESET collaborated with the Federal Police of Brazil, providing technical analysis and information gathered from ESET telemetry and tracked command and control servers. ESET has a long history of cooperation with agencies such as Europol and Interpol, achieving excellent results, particularly in botnet tracking, an approach described by ESET senior malware researcher Jakub Souček at … More How ESET participated in the Grandoreiro banking trojan disruption
ESET levels up its Mobile Security app to be even more effective against phishing. Smartphones have become an integral part of our social lives. From children to teens and on to adults and the elderly, globally, the average user now spends almost four hours daily staring at their mobile phone. There’s really no point in naming all … More Games, apps, websites… anything can be abused. How to protect your family from mobile threats
You may not always stop your personal information from ending up in the internet’s dark recesses, but you can take steps to protect yourself from criminals looking to exploit it. How did 44% members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and 68% of British MPs let their personal details end up circulating on the dark web? The … More Don’t become a statistic: Defending your personal data from dark web criminals
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