Nothing’s fool proof. But a safe word is a fantastic, free option for uncovering deepfake audio fraud like fake/virtual ...

LLM-based code scanners won’t help attackers build a nuclear weapon, but that refusal could work in their favor.

External data storage devices have been around almost as long as computers have existed. Magnetic tape and floppy disks, which were once the dominant media, are now mostly fond memories, while optical ...

Bots have got a lot to answer for. They now make up over half of all internet traffic, and while some, such as Google’s web crawlers and fetchers, have legitimate purposes, nearly two-fifths are ...

Details about the Hugging Face hack, critical infrastructure under attack, a spoofed in-flight Wi-Fi network, and more of ...

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The first half of 2026 shows how attackers continue to improve the efficiency and scalability of their operations. Rather than relying on entirely new methods and tools, they are quickly adapting ...

ESET researchers analyzed the robust EDR-killing toolset of the ransomware-as-a-service gang Gentlemen. Since the beginning of 2026, Gentlemen has emerged as one of the most active gangs in the ...

I recently had, what I thought, was a unique brainwave. (Spoiler alert: it wasn’t, but please read on!) As a marketing leader at ESET UK, part of my role is to communicate how our powerful and ...

ESET APT Activity Report Q4 2024–Q1 2025 summarizes notable activities of selected advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that were documented by ESET researchers from October 2024 until the end of ...

Discovered in 1986, Brain was the first virus to target IBM PC platforms (and, by extension, the MS-DOS operating system). By using techniques to hide its existence, it was also the first stealth ...

ESET researchers discovered a still-ongoing campaign using a previously undocumented Korplug variant, which they named Hodur due to its resemblance to the THOR variant previously documented by Unit 42 ...