It can be difficult to tell a legitimate website apart from an unsafe one – follow these steps to identify and protect yourself from bad websites. You probably visit tens, if not hundreds, of websites daily. You read a news article here, check your social media there, then you watch a TV show on a … More How to tell if a website is safe
Law enforcement steps in to thwart attacks leveraging the recently-disclosed Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities. The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has carried out a court-approved operation to “copy and remove” malicious web shells from hundreds of systems across the US that were compromised through the mass exploitation of zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange … More Authorities remove web shells from compromised Exchange servers
Security flaws in a widely used DNS software package could allow attackers to send users to malicious websites or to remotely hijack their devices. Millions of devices could be vulnerable to Domain Name System (DNS) cache poisoning and remote code execution attacks due to seven security flaws in dnsmasq, DNS forwarding and caching software commonly found in smartphones, … More DNSpooq bugs expose millions of devices to DNS cache poisoning
ESET researchers uncover targeted attacks against high-profile aerospace and military companies. At the end of last year, we discovered targeted attacks against aerospace and military companies in Europe and the Middle East, active from September to December 2019. A collaborative investigation with two of the affected European companies allowed us to gain insight into the … More Aerospace and military companies in the crosshairs of cyberspies
ESET researchers discovered an extremely stealthy – yet surprisingly simple – technique that allowed Android malware to stay under the radar. Analyzing the DEFENSOR ID app that was – at the time – available on the official Android app store, ESET researchers learned the app misused Accessibility Services but required no other suspicious permission nor … More ESET researchers detect a new trick used by malware to slip into the official Android app store
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