Three years after Microsoft said it was ending support for Windows XP, it announced on May 12th 2017 that it was issuing a security update for the operating system, as well as Windows 8.0 and Windows Server 2003, both of which are in custom support only. That’s two months after the same patch was released for supported versions of Windows. The … More Patching: Your questions answered
Written by Peter Stancik, ESET We Live Security Last month, ESET researchers confirmed the discovery of a new type of sophisticated malware now known as Industroyer, highlighting the threat posed to industrial control systems. Indeed, this is considered to be the first-ever designed to affect ICS industrial control systems directly, and is thought to be behind the December … More Industrial control security practitioners worry about threats … for a reason
Regardless of how intensively the topic of ransomware is currently trending, it is not the most dangerous form of malware. Recently, the much-reported WannaCry ransomware took media by storm, however, it received considerably more coverage than it did harm, and it overshadowed other internet threats. More dangerous than ransomware is a malware capable of taking … More Botnets overshadowed by ransomware (in media)
Releasing master keys for older ransomware variants has become somewhat of a trend these days. Shortly after the release of the updated Crysis decryptor, master keys for some of the variants of the AES-NI family were published – specifically Win32/Filecoder.AESNI.B and Win32/Filecoder.AESNI.C, also known as XData. Based on this, ESET experts have prepared an AES-NI … More ESET releases decryptor for AESNI ransomware variants, including XData
ESET Threat Intelligence, a service that predicts and proactively notifies enterprise customers about real-time threats such as WannaCryptor ransomware or the EternalBlue exploit, has been made globally available to ESET customers today. ESET Threat Intelligence is built on a unique blend of ESET’s core disciplinary knowledge, advanced heuristics and technologies such as machine learning. The service … More ESET Threat Intelligence service launched for Enterprise Customers to help prevent attacks such as WannaCryptor
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