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Telekopye transitions to targeting tourists via hotel booking scam
ESET Research shares new findings about Telekopye, a scam toolkit used to defraud people on online marketplaces, and newly on accommodation booking platforms
Jakub Souček and Radek Jizba • 10 Oct 2024
Mind the (air) gap: GoldenJackal gooses government guardrails
ESET Research analyzed two separate toolsets for breaching air-gapped systems, used by a cyberespionage threat actor known as GoldenJackal
Matías Porolli • 07 Oct 2024
Separating the bee from the panda: CeranaKeeper making a beeline for Thailand
ESET Research details the tools and activities of a new China-aligned threat actor, CeranaKeeper, focusing on massive data exfiltration in Southeast Asia
Romain Dumont • 02 Oct 2024
Cyberespionage the Gamaredon way: Analysis of toolset used to spy on Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
ESET Research has conducted a comprehensive technical analysis of Gamaredon’s toolset used to conduct its cyberespionage activities focused in Ukraine
Zoltán Rusnák • 26 Sep 2024
ESET Research Podcast: EvilVideo
ESET researchers discuss how they uncovered a zero-day Telegram for Android exploit that allowed attackers to send malicious files posing as videos
ESET Research • 17 Sep 2024
CosmicBeetle steps up: Probation period at RansomHub
CosmicBeetle, after improving its own ransomware, tries its luck as a RansomHub affiliate
Jakub Souček • 10 Sep 2024
ESET Research Podcast: HotPage
ESET researchers discuss HotPage, a recently discovered adware armed with a highest-privilege, yet vulnerable, Microsoft-signed driver
ESET Research • 05 Sep 2024
Analysis of two arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities affecting WPS Office
Demystifying CVE-2024-7262 and CVE-2024-7263
Romain Dumont • 28 Aug 2024
NGate Android malware relays NFC traffic to steal cash
Android malware discovered by ESET Research relays NFC data from victims’ payment cards, via victims’ mobile phones, to the device of a perpetrator waiting at an ATM
Lukas Stefanko and Jakub Osmani • 22 Aug 2024