News

AmiViz inks new partnership with PolySwarm

March 23, 2023

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AmiViz, the Middle East region’s first enterprise B2B marketplace, today announced that the company has joined hands with PolySwarm, a first-of-its-kind marketplace for malware intelligence. PolySwarm has been onboarded to the AmiViz B2B Platform

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Security

Prilex malware now targets NFC transactions

February 2, 2023

Subha Bhargavi

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Kaspersky uncovered three new variants of Prilex malware, made by a group of cybercriminals, that was named after the most advanced Point-of-Sales (PoS) malware back in 2022. The discovered Prilex modifications can now block contactless near-field communication (NFC) transactions on infected PoS-terminals, forcing customers to use their physical credit cards, enabling cybercriminals to steal money.

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News

Kaspersky detects malware capable of infecting Android smartphones

January 31, 2023

Subha Bhargavi

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In January 2023 Kaspersky researchers reported on a new domain name system (DNS) changer functionality used in the Roaming Mantis campaign. Now cybercriminals can use compromised Wi-Fi routers in cafes, airports hotels and other public places to potentially infect more Android smartphones with the Wroba.o malware. At the moment, the new technique targets users in […]

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Research

30% of all cloud malware downloads in 2022 originated from Microsoft OneDrive

January 17, 2023

Subha Bhargavi

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Netskope has unveiled new research showing that over 400 distinct cloud applications delivered malware in 2022, nearly triple the amount seen in the prior year. Netskope researchers also found that 30% of all cloud malware downloads in 2022 originated from Microsoft OneDrive. In the Middle East, the report shows a slight increase in the overall […]

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Agrius APT group attacks diamond industry

December 15, 2022

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ESET researchers discovered a new wiper and its execution tool, both attributed to the Iran-aligned Agrius APT group. The malware operators conducted a supply-chain attack abusing an Israeli software developer to deploy their new wiper, Fantasy, and a new lateral movement and Fantasy execution tool, Sandals.

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Security

Threat actors leveraging football-based campaigns to target Arab organisations

November 22, 2022

Subha Bhargavi

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Email security researchers from the Trellix Advanced Research Centre have found attackers to be leveraging FIFA and football-based campaigns to target organisations in Arab countries and consequently, the volume of malicious emails in Arab Countries was observed to have increased by 100 per cent in the month of October.

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ESET Research reveals Furball spyware goes after Iranian citizens

October 27, 2022

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ESET researchers recently identified a new version of the Android malware FurBall being used in a Domestic Kitten campaign conducted by the APT-C-50 group. The Domestic Kitten campaign is known to conduct mobile surveillance operations against Iranian citizens, and this new FurBall version

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News

ESET presented Industroyer2 at Black Hat USA

September 6, 2022

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ESET researchers Robert Lipovský and Anton Cherepanov recently presented breakthrough research into Industroyer2 during a Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, along with Victor Zhora, the Deputy Director of Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP).

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ESET discovers new threat to Mac users

July 20, 2022

Deepak Singh

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ESET researchers discovered a previously unknown macOS backdoor that spies on users of compromised Macs and exclusively uses public cloud storage services to communicate back and forth with its operators.

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Expert View

Perils of downloading pirated games

July 15, 2022

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Phil Muncaster, guest writer at ESET says its all fun and games, until you get hacked – and this is just one risk of downloading cracked games

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Expert View

Things business leaders should know about security

July 5, 2022

Subha Bhargavi

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Dave Russell, Vice President of Enterprise Strategy, Veeam Software, provides 3 things that business leaders need to keep in focus when implementing security measures.

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Expert View

5 ways cybercriminals steal your credit card details

June 30, 2022

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Phil Muncaster, guest writer at ESET highlights some of the most common ways hackers can get hold of other people’s credit card data – and how you can keep yours safe 

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