BRATISLAVA, — January 22, 2024 — ESET, a global leader in digital security, maintains its Champion status for the fifth consecutive year in the latest Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix from Canalys. With this milestone, it reaffirms its position as a world-renowned vendor of digital security and a top security provider for global partner networks. According to Canalys,…
BRATISLAVA, — December 19, 2023 — ESET, a global cybersecurity leader, announced that its esteemed Japanese partner, Canon Marketing Japan Inc., has proved their leadership in providing valuable products and services and secured the top-ranking award in the Nikkei Computer Customer Satisfaction Survey 2023. Canon Marketing Japan Inc. took first place in the “Security Product” category…
BRATISLAVA, MONTREAL — December 14, 2023 — ESET researchers analyzed a growing series of new OilRig downloaders that the group used in several campaigns throughout 2022 to maintain access to target organizations of special interest, all located in Israel. They include an organization in the healthcare sector, a manufacturing company, and a local governmental organization. OilRig…
BRATISLAVA, KOŠICE — November 09, 2023 — ESET researchers have identified what appears to be a watering-hole attack on a regional news website that delivers news about Gilgit-Baltistan, a region administered by Pakistan. Gilgit-Baltistan consists of the northern region of the greater Kashmir territory, embroiled in longstanding disputes involving India and Pakistan (since 1947) as well…
BRATISLAVA, 20.10.2023 – On Thursday, 12 October, the ESET Science Award was presented for the fifth time to outstanding personalities of science and education in Slovakia. The ESET Science Award pays tribute to scientists based in Slovakia and highlights their efforts and scientific activities that have an impact on all areas of life. The laureate of…
BRATISLAVA, BUENOS AIRES — October 17, 2023 — ESET Research announced today the release of the report “Looking into TUT’s tomb: The universe of threats in LATAM,” which analyzes more than a dozen operations and various cybercriminal campaigns in Latin America. With evolving targeting strategies and techniques, these campaigns exhibit a high level of sophistication, specifically…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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