A regularly updated directory of press releases related to cyber security.

Issued by: ESET

29/9/2023

BRATISLAVA, PRAGUE — September 29, 2023 — ESET researchers have uncovered a Lazarus attack against an aerospace company in Spain, in which the group deployed several tools, most notably the newly discovered backdoor named LightlessCan by ESET. Operators of the North Korea-linked Lazarus group obtained initial access to the company’s network last year after a successful…

Issued by: ESET

21/9/2023

BRATISLAVA, MONTREAL — September 21, 2023 — ESET researchers have analyzed two campaigns by the Iran-aligned OilRig APT group: Outer Space from 2021, and Juicy Mix from 2022. Both of these cyberespionage campaigns targeted Israeli organizations exclusively, which is in line with the group’s focus on the Middle East, and both used the same playbook: OilRig…

Issued by: ESET

30/8/2023

BRATISLAVA, KOŠICE — August 30, 2023 — ESET researchers have identified two active campaigns targeting Android users, where the threat actors behind the tools for Telegram and Signal are attributed to the China-aligned APT group GREF. Most likely active since July 2020 and since July 2022, respectively for each malicious app, the campaigns have distributed the…

Issued by: ESET

22/8/2023

BRATISLAVA, PRAGUE — August 22, 2023 — ESET Research has released its analysis of Spacecolon, a small toolset used to deploy variants of Scarab ransomware to victims all over the world. It likely penetrates victim organizations through operators compromising vulnerable web servers or via brute forcing RDP credentials. Several Spacecolon builds contain many Turkish strings; therefore,…

Issued by: ESET

17/8/2023

BRATISLAVA — August 17, 2023 — ESET researchers have uncovered a mass-spreading phishing campaign aimed at collecting Zimbra account users’ credentials. The campaign has been active since at least April 2023 and is still ongoing. Zimbra Collaboration is an open-core collaborative software platform, a popular alternative to enterprise email solutions. The campaign’s targets are a variety…

Issued by: ESET

21/7/2023

BRATISLAVA  – July 21, 2023 – ESET, a global leader in digital security, was awarded the highest designation in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Managed Detection & Response (MDR) 2023 – being recognized not only as a MARKET LEADER but also as an OVERALL LEADER. KuppingerCole, an international and independent trusted industry analyst organization, has conducted a comprehensive…

Issued by: ESET

26/5/2023

BRATISLAVA — May 26, 2023 —  ESET, a global leader in digital security, was included in Forrester’s The Endpoint Security Landscape, Q2 2023 report. The report provides an overview of 33 worldwide endpoint security vendors, amongst which ESET is recognized as a notable endpoint security provider based on product revenue. Landscape reports help Forrester clients become…

Issued by: ESET

26/4/2023

BRATISLAVA, MONTREAL — April 26, 2023 — ESET researchers have discovered a campaign conducted by the APT group known as Evasive Panda, in which update channels of legitimate Chinese applications were hijacked to also deliver the installer for the MgBot malware, Evasive Panda’s flagship cyberespionage backdoor. Chinese users were the focus of this malicious activity, which…

Issued by: ESET

20/4/2023

BRATISLAVA, PRAGUE — April 20, 2023 — ESET researchers have discovered a new Lazarus Operation DreamJob campaign targeting Linux users. ESET Research was able to reconstruct the full chain, from the ZIP file that delivers a fake HSBC job offer as a decoy up until the final payload: the SimplexTea Linux backdoor distributed through an OpenDrive…