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The dirty dozen of Latin America: From Amavaldo to Zumanek
The grand finale of our series dedicated to demystifying Latin American banking trojans
ESET Research • 15 Dec 2021
Launching ESET Research Podcast: A peek behind the scenes of ESET discoveries
Press play for the first episode as host Aryeh Goretsky is joined by Zuzana Hromcová to discuss native IIS malware
Roman Kováč • 02 Dec 2021
Jumping the air gap: 15 years of nation-state effort
ESET researchers studied all the malicious frameworks ever reported publicly that have been used to attack air-gapped networks and are releasing a side-by-side comparison of their most important TTPs
Alexis Dorais-Joncas and Facundo Muñoz • 01 Dec 2021
Strategic web compromises in the Middle East with a pinch of Candiru
ESET researchers have discovered strategic web compromise (aka watering hole) attacks against high-profile websites in the Middle East
Matthieu Faou • 16 Nov 2021
Wslink: Unique and undocumented malicious loader that runs as a server
There are no code, functionality or operational similarities to suggest that this is a tool from a known threat actor
Vladislav Hrčka • 27 Oct 2021
FontOnLake: Previously unknown malware family targeting Linux
ESET researchers discover a malware family with tools that show signs they’re used in targeted attacks
Vladislav Hrčka • 07 Oct 2021
UEFI threats moving to the ESP: Introducing ESPecter bootkit
ESET research discovers a previously undocumented UEFI bootkit with roots going back all the way to at least 2012
Martin Smolár and Anton Cherepanov • 05 Oct 2021
Threat Reports, ESET Research
ESET Threat Report T2 2021
A view of the T2 2021 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts
Roman Kováč • 30 Sep 2021
FamousSparrow: A suspicious hotel guest
Yet another APT group that exploited the ProxyLogon vulnerability in March 2021
Tahseen Bin Taj and Matthieu Faou • 23 Sep 2021