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More than 30 years later, ESET remains at the forefront of cybersecurity research, operating 13 R&D centers across the world that analyze, monitor and anticipate new threats. In recent years alone, ESET researchers have made a number of significant discoveries that shed light on various malicious campaigns orchestrated by the world’s most advanced threat actors. They have also identified multiple high-impact vulnerabilities in third-party products and services.

Over the years, ESET’s experts have assisted law enforcement with disruptions of several notorious cybercrime operations. They also frequently present at leading industry conferences and are among the most referenced contributors to the MITRE ATT&CK® knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques.

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ESET Research

The Dark Side of the ForSSHe

The Dark Side of the ForSSHe

ESET Research

The Dark Side of the ForSSHe

ESET researchers discovered a set of previously undocumented Linux malware families based on OpenSSH. In the white paper, “The Dark Side of the ForSSHe”, they release analysis of 21 malware families to improve the prevention, detection and remediation of such threats

Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé05 Dec 2018


ESET Research

Scam iOS apps promise fitness, steal money instead

Scam iOS apps promise fitness, steal money instead

ESET Research

Scam iOS apps promise fitness, steal money instead

Fitness-tracking apps use dodgy in-app payments to steal money from unaware iPhone and iPad users

Lukas Stefanko03 Dec 2018


ESET Research

3ve – Major online ad fraud operation disrupted

3ve – Major online ad fraud operation disrupted

ESET Research

3ve – Major online ad fraud operation disrupted

International law enforcement swoops on fake ad viewing outfit

Jean-Ian Boutin27 Nov 2018


ESET Research

Black Friday and Cyber Monday by Emotet: Filling inboxes with infected XML macros

Black Friday and Cyber Monday by Emotet: Filling inboxes with infected XML macros

ESET Research

Black Friday and Cyber Monday by Emotet: Filling inboxes with infected XML macros

Emotet starts another massive spam campaign just as the shopping season picks up steam

Ondrej Kubovič23 Nov 2018


ESET Research

Sednit: What’s going on with Zebrocy?

Sednit: What’s going on with Zebrocy?

ESET Research

Sednit: What’s going on with Zebrocy?

In August 2018, Sednit’s operators deployed two new Zebrocy components, and since then we have seen an uptick in Zebrocy deployments, with targets in Central Asia, as well as countries in Central and Eastern Europe, notably embassies, ministries of foreign affairs, and diplomats

ESET Research20 Nov 2018


ESET Research

OceanLotus: New watering hole attack in Southeast Asia

OceanLotus: New watering hole attack in Southeast Asia

ESET Research

OceanLotus: New watering hole attack in Southeast Asia

ESET researchers identified 21 distinct websites that had been compromised including some particularly notable government and media sites

Matthieu Faou20 Nov 2018


ESET Research

Emotet launches major new spam campaign

Emotet launches major new spam campaign

ESET Research

Emotet launches major new spam campaign

The recent spike in Emotet activity shows that it remains an active threat

ESET Research09 Nov 2018


ESET Research

Supply-chain attack on cryptocurrency exchange gate.io

Supply-chain attack on cryptocurrency exchange gate.io

ESET Research

Supply-chain attack on cryptocurrency exchange gate.io

Latest ESET research shows just how far attackers will go in order to steal bitcoin from customers of one specific virtual currency exchange

Matthieu Faou06 Nov 2018


Malware

Banking Trojans continue to surface on Google Play

Banking Trojans continue to surface on Google Play

Malware

Banking Trojans continue to surface on Google Play

The malicious apps have all been removed from the official Android store but not before the apps were installed by almost 30,000 users

Lukas Stefanko24 Oct 2018