Category: Viral

Video The job of a CISO is becoming increasingly stressful as cybersecurity chiefs face overwhelming workloads and growing concerns over personal liability for security failings 19 Jan 2024 The job of a chief information security officer (CISO) is becoming increasingly stressful, to the point that some security leaders are seeking out more peaceful career paths.…

Scams As AI-powered voice cloning turbocharges imposter scams, we sit down with ESET’s Jake Moore to discuss how to hang up on ‘hi-fi’ scam calls – and what the future holds for deepfake detection 23 Jan 2024  •  , 4 min. read Would you fall for a faked call from your CEO asking you to…

ESET researchers provide an analysis of an attack carried out by a previously undisclosed China-aligned threat actor we have named Blackwood, and that we believe has been operating since at least 2018. The attackers deliver a sophisticated implant, which we named NSPX30, through adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks hijacking update requests from legitimate software. Key points in…

Business Security Blindly trusting your partners and suppliers on their security posture is not sustainable – it’s time to take control through effective supplier risk management 25 Jan 2024  •  , 5 min. read The world is built on supply chains. They are the connective tissue that facilitates global trade and prosperity. But these networks…

Digital Security, Business Security In today’s digitally interconnected world, advanced cyber capabilities have become an exceptionally potent and versatile tool of tradecraft for nation-states and criminals alike 29 Jan 2024  •  , 4 min. read For thousands of years, nations have engaged in espionage, spying on their neighbors, allies, and adversaries. Traditionally, this realm of…

ESET Research An AI chatbot inadvertently kindles a cybercrime boom, ransomware bandits plunder organizations without deploying ransomware, and a new botnet enslaves Android TV boxes 31 Jan 2024  •  , 2 min. read In this episode of the ESET Research Podcast, we dissect the most interesting findings of the ESET Threat Report H2 2023, including…

ESET researchers have identified twelve Android espionage apps that share the same malicious code: six were available on Google Play, and six were found on VirusTotal. All the observed applications were advertised as messaging tools apart from one that posed as a news app. In the background, these apps covertly execute remote access trojan (RAT)…

Video The banking trojan, which targeted mostly Brazil, Mexico and Spain, blocked the victim’s screen, logged keystrokes, simulated mouse and keyboard activity and displayed fake pop-up windows 02 Feb 2024 This week, law enforcement in Brazil took action to disrupt the Grandoreiro banking malware in a joint effort that was also supported by the ESET…