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ESET Research Podcast: CosmicBeetle
Learn how a rather clumsy cybercrime group wielding buggy malicious tools managed to compromise a number of SMBs in various parts of the world
ESET Research • 24 Oct 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
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
ESET Research Podcast: APT Activity Report Q4 2023–Q1 2024
The I-SOON data leak confirms that this contractor is involved in cyberespionage for China, while Iran-aligned groups step up aggressive tactics following the Hamas-led attack on Israel in 2023
ESET Research • 14 Jun 2024
ESET Research Podcast: ChatGPT, the MOVEit hack, and Pandora
An AI chatbot inadvertently kindles a cybercrime boom, ransomware bandits plunder organizations without deploying ransomware, and a new botnet enslaves Android TV boxes
ESET Research • 31 Jan 2024
ESET Research Podcast: Neanderthals, Mammoths and Telekopye
ESET researchers discuss the dynamics within and between various groups of scammers who use a Telegram bot called Telekopye to scam people on online marketplaces
ESET Research • 18 Dec 2023
ESET Research Podcast: Sextortion, digital usury and SQL brute-force
Closing intrusion vectors force cybercriminals to revisit old attack avenues, but also to look for new ways to attack their victims
ESET Research • 12 Sep 2023
ESET Research Podcast: Unmasking MoustachedBouncer
Listen as ESET's Director of Threat Research Jean-Ian Boutin unravels the tactics, techniques and procedures of MoustachedBouncer, an APT group taking aim at foreign embassies in Belarus
ESET Research • 10 Aug 2023
ESET Research Podcast: Finding the mythical BlackLotus bootkit
Here's a story of how an analysis of a supposed game cheat turned into the discovery of a powerful UEFI threat
ESET Research • 12 Jul 2023