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Tony Anscombe • 13 Aug 2026 • 4 min. read
Business Security
Black Hat USA 2026: What the Hugging Face hack tells us about human responsibility
The incident involving OpenAI models shows that autonomous hacks make human oversight more important, not less
Tony Anscombe • 13 Aug 2026
Black Hat USA 2026: AI is racing ahead of cybersecurity controls
AI took center stage, but the clearest lesson was less about what AI can do than about who is accountable when something goes wrong
Tony Anscombe • 12 Aug 2026
ESET Research
Threat Reports
ESET Threat Report H1 2026
A view of the H1 2026 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts.
Jiří Kropáč • 08 Jul 2026
Cyber readiness for SMBs: Getting the basics right
AI is changing cybercrime, but SMB cyber readiness still largely depends on closing the familiar gaps
Phil Muncaster • 03 Jul 2026
SMB cyber readiness: the road to resilience starts here
Your business may be small, but its attack surface is anything but. Readiness is the first step to resilience.
Phil Muncaster • 26 Jun 2026
Critical Infrastructure
Protecting legacy OT systems against modern cyberthreats
Many manufacturing plants depend on OT systems that stay in service for many years. That long run can hide significant cybersecurity risks.
Tomáš Foltýn • 17 Jun 2026
Unpacking SMB cyber-readiness – and what makes or breaks it
A company that's expecting a cyberattack but hasn’t actively prepared for it risks making the hardest decisions at the worst possible moment
Tomáš Foltýn • 10 Jun 2026
Cybercriminals: the 'auditors' you never hired
Every organisation gets audited. The question is who does the auditing.
Steven Connolly • 09 Jun 2026
ESET APT Activity Report Q4 2025–Q1 2026
An overview of the activities of selected APT groups investigated and analyzed by ESET Research in Q4 2025 and Q1 2026
Jean-Ian Boutin • 28 May 2026