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Critical Infrastructure, Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center
TeleBots are back: Supply-chain attacks against Ukraine
This blogpost reveals many details about the Diskcoder.C (aka ExPetr or NotPetya) outbreak and related information about previously unpublished attacks.
Anton Cherepanov • 30 Jun 2017
ESET Research, Ransomware
New WannaCryptor-like ransomware attack hits globally: All you need to know
Numerous reports are coming out on social media about a new ransomware attack in Ukraine, which could be related to the Petya family.
Editor • 27 Jun 2017
ESET Research
Birthday Reminder looks benign but the devil’s in the details: Hooks DNS, serves dodgy ads
The strange behavior of a simple Windows application caught our attention and sparked the analysis by ESET of a previously undocumented malware.
Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé • 22 Jun 2017
ESET Research, Critical Infrastructure, Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center
Industroyer: Biggest threat to industrial control systems since Stuxnet
ESET has analyzed a sophisticated and extremely dangerous malware, known as Industroyer, which is designed to disrupt critical industrial processes.
Anton Cherepanov and Robert Lipovsky • 12 Jun 2017
Turla’s watering hole campaign: An updated Firefox extension abusing Instagram
The Turla espionage group is still using watering hole techniques to redirect potentially interesting victims to their C&C infrastructure.
Jean-Ian Boutin • 06 Jun 2017
Sednit adds two zero-day exploits using 'Trump's attack on Syria' as a decoy
Sednit is back - this time with two more zero-day exploits embedded in a phishing email titled Trump's_Attack_on_Syria_English.docx.
ESET Research • 09 May 2017
Linux Shishiga malware using LUA scripts
The usage of the BitTorrent protocol and Lua modules separates Linux/Shishiga from other types of malware, according to analysis by ESET.
ESET Research and Michal Malik • 25 Apr 2017
Turn the light on and give me your passwords!
ESET researchers have discovered another banking trojan on Google Play targeting Android users – this time disguised as a Flashlight widget.
Lukas Stefanko • 19 Apr 2017
Scams
Real or virtual currency? Scammers accept both
ESET researchers have discovered and reported scammers stealing PayPal and Paxful credentials disguised as a tool for YouTube monetization, and a bitcoin trading marketplace.
Lukas Stefanko • 13 Apr 2017