ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, has been recognized with gold and silver awards in recent reports from AV-Comparatives, an independent testing organization. AV-Comparatives uses one of the largest sample collections worldwide to create a real-world environment for highly accurate testing. In its recent Summary Report 2018, which looked at 18 different vendors, ESET took…
Experts from ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, have been exploring the use of machine learning for more than 20 years, but what actually is the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning in fight against cybercrime? ESET will be exploring this topic, sharing new research and key findings on AI and mobile security…
December 5, 2018 – ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, has announced its latest discovery of 12 previously undetected Linux malware families based on OpenSSH, documented in their latest research paper “The Dark Side of the ForSSHe”. These powerful tools give attackers full control over Linux server’s operations and are widely used both by crimeware…
ESET, the leader in cybersecurity research and a top European Union-based endpoint security company, has discovered evidence linking the infamous cybercriminal group TeleBots to Industroyer, the most powerful modern malware targeting industrial control systems and the culprit behind the electricity blackout in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, in 2016. TeleBots demonstrated its prowess with NotPetya, the disk-wiping malware…
ESET researchers 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 group against several high-profile targets in Central and Eastern Europe and is the first-ever publicly known attack of this kind. “Although,…
ESET®, a global pioneer in proactive IT security, and Canon IT Solutions (“CITS”), ESET’s exclusive partner in Japan, announced its joint venture to establish ESET Japan Inc. Located in Tokyo, the new ESET office, which officially began operations on September 1, 2018, aims to increase its market presence and introduce newly developed solutions for both enterprise…
A new ESET white paper aims to bring some clarity to what Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) mean in the world of cybersecurity and how they could change the future of malware as we know it. To gain more insight into this growing topic, ESET conducted a survey which revealed that the majority of IT decision…
ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity from the European Union, today announces the launch of its new suite of comprehensive cybersecurity products and services designed to provide enterprises with advanced solutions tailored to proactively detect threats and effectively protect their devices and endpoints. As reported by Forrester,[1] buyers want an “endpoint security suite that consolidates capabilities…
ESET, the leading IT security company based in the European Union, is the top endpoint security vendor in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), taking the most sizeable portion of the annual market share. According to the IDC Endpoint security software market shares 2017 report, ESET’s market share in the CEE region accounts for 37.5 percent, outpacing…
23 Apr 2018 ESET, a leader in information security, today announced it has been awarded the highest designation in the Innovation, Product, Market and Overall Leader categories in the 2018 Kuppinger Cole Leadership Compass Enterprise Endpoint Security: Anti-Malware Solutions. The annual report by Kuppinger Cole, examines the key vendors in the Enterprise Endpoint Security market,…
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