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More evil: A deep look at Evilnum and its toolset
ESET research gives a detailed picture of the operations of the Evilnum group and its toolkit deployed in attacks against carefully chosen targets in the fintech sector
Matías Porolli • 09 Jul 2020
Remote access at risk: Pandemic pulls more cyber-crooks into the brute-forcing game
Poorly secured remote access attracts mostly ransomware gangs, but can provide access to coin miners and backdoors too
Ondrej Kubovič • 29 Jun 2020
New ransomware posing as COVID-19 tracing app targets Canada; ESET offers decryptor
ESET researchers dissect an Android app that masquerades as an official COVID-19 contact-tracing app and encrypts files on the victim's device
Lukas Stefanko • 24 Jun 2020
Digging up InvisiMole’s hidden arsenal
ESET researchers reveal the modus operandi of the elusive InvisiMole group, including newly discovered ties with the Gamaredon group
Zuzana Hromcová and Anton Cherepanov • 18 Jun 2020
Operation In(ter)ception: Aerospace and military companies in the crosshairs of cyberspies
ESET researchers uncover targeted attacks against high-profile aerospace and military companies
Dominik Breitenbacher and Kaspars Osis • 17 Jun 2020
Gamaredon group grows its game
Active APT group adds cunning remote template injectors for Word and Excel documents; unique Outlook mass-mailing macro
Jean-Ian Boutin • 11 Jun 2020
From Agent.BTZ to ComRAT v4: A ten-year journey
Turla has updated its ComRAT backdoor and now uses the Gmail web interface for Command and Control
Matthieu Faou • 26 May 2020
ESET Research, Mobile Security
Insidious Android malware gives up all malicious features but one to gain stealth
ESET researchers detect a new way of misusing Accessibility Service, the Achilles’ heel of Android security
Lukas Stefanko • 22 May 2020
No “Game over” for the Winnti Group
The notorious APT group continues to play the video game industry with yet another backdoor
Mathieu Tartare and Martin Smolár • 21 May 2020