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Could your Valentine be a scammer? How to avoid getting caught in a bad romance

February 6, 2024

With Valentine’s Day almost upon us, here’s some timely advice on how to prevent scammers from stealing more than your heart. Online dating has revolutionized how people connect and find love. Now, any of us can flick through an online catalog of potential love interests in the palm of their hands – no more terrible … More Could your Valentine be a scammer? How to avoid getting caught in a bad romance

ESET Research discovers espionage apps utilizing romance scams

February 1, 2024

ESET Research discovered a new cyberespionage campaign that, with a high level of confidence, ESET attributes to the Patchwork APT group. ESET researchers have identified 12 Android espionage apps that share the same malicious code; six were available on Google Play. All the observed applications were advertised as messaging tools, apart from one that posed … More ESET Research discovers espionage apps utilizing romance scams

ESET Research Podcast: ChatGPT, the MOVEit hack, and Pandora

January 31, 2024

An AI chatbot inadvertently kindles a cybercrime boom, ransomware bandits plunder organizations without deploying ransomware, and a new botnet enslaves Android TV boxes. In this episode of the ESET Research Podcast, we dissect the most interesting findings of the ESET Threat Report H2 2023, including threat actors trying to leverage the AI hype, probably the … More ESET Research Podcast: ChatGPT, the MOVEit hack, and Pandora

ESET Research joins global operation to disrupt the Grandoreiro banking trojan operating in Latin America and Spain

January 30, 2024

ESET worked alongside the Federal Police of Brazil in an attempt to disrupt the Grandoreiro botnet. ESET collaborated with the Federal Police of Brazil in an attempt to disrupt the Grandoreiro botnet. ESET contributed to the project by providing technical analysis, statistical information, and known command and control (C&C) server domain names and IP addresses. … More ESET Research joins global operation to disrupt the Grandoreiro banking trojan operating in Latin America and Spain

Cyber: The Swiss army knife of tradecraft

January 29, 2024

In today’s digitally interconnected world, advanced cyber capabilities have become an exceptionally potent and versatile tool of tradecraft for nation-states and criminals alike. For thousands of years, nations have engaged in espionage, spying on their neighbors, allies, and adversaries. Traditionally, this realm of “espionage” relied heavily on human intelligence, but that started changing in the … More Cyber: The Swiss army knife of tradecraft