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Romain Dumont • 18 Jul 2024 • 23 min. read
ESET Research
HotPage: Story of a signed, vulnerable, ad-injecting driver
Jiří Kropáč • 27 Jun 2024 • 2 min. read
ESET Research, Threat Reports
ESET Threat Report H1 2024
Lukas Stefanko • 13 Jun 2024 • 19 min. read
Arid Viper poisons Android apps with AridSpy
Business Security
Untangling the hiring dilemma: How security solutions free up HR processes
MDR: Unlocking the power of enterprise-grade security for businesses of all sizes
Digital Security
Google fixes actively exploited Chrome zero-day
The latest Chrome update patches a bumper crop of security flaws across the browser’s desktop versions
Amer Owaida • 10 Jun 2021
BackdoorDiplomacy: Upgrading from Quarian to Turian
ESET researchers discover a new campaign that evolved from the Quarian backdoor
Adam Burgher • 10 Jun 2021
Gelsemium: When threat actors go gardening
ESET researchers shed light on new campaigns from the quiet Gelsemium group
Matthieu Faou and Thomas Dupuy • 09 Jun 2021
Cybercrime
Hundreds of suspected criminals arrested after being tricked into using FBI‑run chat app
Law enforcement around the world used a messaging app called AN0M to monitor the communications of alleged criminals
Amer Owaida • 08 Jun 2021
Hacking space: How to pwn a satellite
Hacking an orbiting satellite is not light years away – here’s how things can go wrong in outer space
Cameron Camp • 07 Jun 2021
Video
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
New ESET Threat Report is out – How to deal with online trolls – Teens, beware these 5 common scams
Editor • 04 Jun 2021
Zero-day in popular WordPress plugin exploited to take over websites
Websites using Fancy Product Designer are susceptible to remote code execution attacks even if the plugin is deactivated
Amer Owaida • 03 Jun 2021
Threat Reports, ESET Research
ESET Threat Report T1 2021
A view of the T1 2021 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts
Roman Kováč • 03 Jun 2021
Kids Online
5 common scams targeting teens – and how to stay safe
From knock-off designer products to too-good-to-be-true job offers, here are five common schemes fraudsters use to trick teenagers out of their money and sensitive data
Amer Owaida • 01 Jun 2021
How To
Don’t feed the trolls and other tips for avoiding online drama
You may not be able to escape internet trolls, but you have a choice about how you will deal with them – here’s how you can handle trolls without losing your cool
Amer Owaida • 31 May 2021
You, too, may be vulnerable to SIM swap attacks – How to defend yourself against rom-cons – Zero day in macOS allowed malware to take secret screenshots
Editor • 28 May 2021
Scams
I hacked my friend’s website after a SIM swap attack
Here’s how easily your phone number could be stolen, why a successful SIM swap scam is only the beginning of your problems, and how you can avoid becoming a victim of the attack
Jake Moore • 27 May 2021
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