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eXotic Visit campaign: Tracing the footprints of Virtual Invaders
ESET researchers uncovered the eXotic Visit espionage campaign that targets users mainly in India and Pakistan with seemingly innocuous apps
Lukas Stefanko • 10 Apr 2024
Rescoms rides waves of AceCryptor spam
Insight into ESET telemetry statistics about AceCryptor in H2 2023 with a focus on Rescoms campaigns in European countries
Jakub Kaloč • 20 Mar 2024
Evasive Panda leverages Monlam Festival to target Tibetans
ESET researchers uncover strategic web compromise and supply-chain attacks targeting Tibetans
Anh Ho, Facundo Muñoz, Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé • 07 Mar 2024
ESET Research, Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center
Operation Texonto: Information operation targeting Ukrainian speakers in the context of the war
A mix of PSYOPs, espionage and … fake Canadian pharmacies!
Matthieu Faou • 21 Feb 2024
VajraSpy: A Patchwork of espionage apps
ESET researchers discovered several Android apps carrying VajraSpy, a RAT used by the Patchwork APT group
Lukas Stefanko • 01 Feb 2024
ESET Research Podcast: ChatGPT, the MOVEit hack, and Pandora
An AI chatbot inadvertently kindles a cybercrime boom, ransomware bandits plunder organizations without deploying ransomware, and a new botnet enslaves Android TV boxes
ESET Research • 31 Jan 2024
ESET takes part in global operation to disrupt the Grandoreiro banking trojan
ESET provided technical analysis, statistical information, known C&C servers and was able to get a glimpse of the victimology
ESET Research • 30 Jan 2024
NSPX30: A sophisticated AitM-enabled implant evolving since 2005
ESET researchers have discovered NSPX30, a sophisticated implant used by a new China-aligned APT group we have named Blackwood
Facundo Muñoz • 24 Jan 2024
ESET Research, Threat Reports
ESET Threat Report H2 2023
A view of the H2 2023 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts
Jiří Kropáč • 19 Dec 2023