Category Archives: cyber
ESET Research Podcast: Unmasking MoustachedBouncer
Listen as ESET’s Director of Threat Research Jean-Ian Boutin unravels the tactics, techniques and procedures of MoustachedBouncer, an APT group taking aim at foreign embassies in Belarus
Recovering from a supply-chain attack: What are the lessons to learn from the 3CX hack?
The campaign started with a trojanized version of unsupported financial software
How a Telegram bot helps scammers target victims – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
ESET researchers uncover a Telegram bot that enables even less tech-savvy scammers to defraud people out of their money
Evacuation of 30,000 hackers – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
DEF CON, the annual hacker convention in Las Vegas, was interrupted on Saturday evening when authorities evacuated the event’s venue due to a bomb threat
Scarabs colon-izing vulnerable servers
Analysis of Spacecolon, a toolset used to deploy Scarab ransomware on vulnerable servers, and its operators, CosmicBeetle
A Bard’s Tale – how fake AI bots try to install malware
The AI race is on! It’s easy to lose track of the latest developments and possibilities, and yet everyone wants to see firsthand what the hype is about. Heydays for cybercriminals!
Evacuation of 30,000 hackers – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
DEF CON, the annual hacker’s convention in Las Vegas, was interrupted on Saturday evening when authorities evacuated the convention due to a bomb threat.
Black Hat 2023: AI gets big defender prize money
Black Hat is big on AI this year, and for a good reason
DEF CON 31: US DoD urges hackers to go and hack ‘AI’
The limits of current AI need to be tested before we can rely on their output
Mass-spreading campaign targeting Zimbra users
ESET researchers have observed a new phishing campaign targeting users of the Zimbra Collaboration email server.
Black Hat 2023 – AI gets big defender prize money
Black Hat is big on AI this year, and for a good reason
Black Hat 2023: Hacking the police (at least their radios)
Hiding behind a black box and hoping no one will hack it has been routinely proven to be unwise and less secure.
Black Hat 2023: ‘Teenage’ AI not enough for cyberthreat intelligence
Current LLMs are just not mature enough for high-level tasks
20k security folks in the desert – Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Unsurprisingly, artificial intelligence took the center stage at this year’s edition of Black Hat, one of the world’s largest gatherings of cybersecurity professionals
