ESET has released its latest APT Activity Report, which summarizes the notable activities of selected advanced persistent threat (APT) groups documented by ESET researchers from October 2023 until the end of March 2024. The highlighted operations are representative of the broader landscape of threats ESET ResearchRead More…
During the annual ESET World conference, ESET researchers have been presenting about a new investigation into the infamous Lazarus APT group. Director of ESET Threat Research Jean-Ian Boutin went over various new campaigns perpetrated by the Lazarus groupRead More…
ESET researchers discovered two new wiper malware families targeting Ukrainian organizations. The first cyberattack started a few hours prior to the Russian military invasion as ESET Research reported on its Twitter account, and after the DDoS attacks against major Ukrainian websites earlier that day.Read More…
ESET Research has uncovered a new APT group BackdoorDiplomacy that primarily targets Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the Middle East and Africa, and less frequently, telecommunication companies. Their attacks usually start by exploiting vulnerable internet-exposed applications on webservers in order to install a custom backdoor that ESET is calling Turian. Read More…
ESET will highlight its latest and as yet unpublished research during the RSA Conference 2021 taking place virtually from today till May 20. ESET researchers Jean-Ian Boutin, Alexis Dorais-Joncas, Zuzana Hromcová and Lukáš Štefanko will provide a deep dive into Windows XP exploits,Read More…
ESET has released its Q4 2020 Threat Report, summarizing key statistics from ESET detection systems and highlighting notable examples of ESET’s cybersecurity research – including previously unpublished ESET research updates.Read More…
ESET researchers have participated in a global operation to disrupt the Trickbot botnet, which has, since 2016, infected over a million computing devices. Along with partners Microsoft, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs Threat Research, NTT and others, the operation impacted Trickbot by tanking their command and control servers.Read More…
ESET researchers have discovered new tools used by the Gamaredon group in their latest malicious campaigns. The first tool targets Microsoft Outlook using a custom Microsoft Outlook Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) projectRead More…
ESET announced that it team of researchers have discovered a campaign targeting Yandex users via malicious search results. Yandex is the largest Russian language search engine on the internet and visitors who searched for templates, forms and how-to videos on Yandex,Read More…
ESET announced that its researchers has discovered a cyberattack that used a UEFI rootkit to establish a presence on the victims’ computers. Dubbed LoJax by ESET, this rootkit was part of a campaign run by the infamous Sednit groupRead More…
