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Turla Crutch: Keeping the “back door” open
ESET researchers discover a new backdoor used by Turla to exfiltrate stolen documents to Dropbox
Matthieu Faou • 02 Dec 2020
Lazarus supply-chain attack in South Korea
ESET researchers uncover a novel Lazarus supply-chain attack leveraging WIZVERA VeraPort software
Anton Cherepanov and Peter Kálnai • 16 Nov 2020
Hungry for data, ModPipe backdoor hits POS software used in hospitality sector
Backdoor authors show deep knowledge of the targeted POS software, decrypting database passwords from Windows registry values
Martin Smolár • 12 Nov 2020
Threat Reports, ESET Research
ESET Threat Report Q3 2020
A view of the Q3 2020 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts
Roman Kováč • 28 Oct 2020
ESET takes part in global operation to disrupt Trickbot
Throughout its monitoring, ESET analyzed thousands of malicious samples every month to help this effort
Jean-Ian Boutin • 12 Oct 2020
ESET Research, Critical Infrastructure
XDSpy: Stealing government secrets since 2011
ESET researchers uncover a new APT group that has been stealing sensitive documents from several governments in Eastern Europe and the Balkans since 2011
Matthieu Faou • 02 Oct 2020
LATAM financial cybercrime: Competitors-in-crime sharing TTPs
ESET researchers discover surprisingly many indicators of close cooperation among Latin American banking trojans’ authors
ESET Research • 01 Oct 2020
APT-C-23 group evolves its Android spyware
ESET researchers uncover a new version of Android spyware used by the APT-C-23 threat group against targets in the Middle East
Lukas Stefanko • 30 Sep 2020
Who is calling? CDRThief targets Linux VoIP softswitches
ESET researchers have discovered and analyzed malware that targets Voice over IP (VoIP) softswitches
Anton Cherepanov • 10 Sep 2020