A 17-year-old who pleaded guilty to offenses relating to 2015’s TalkTalk cyberattack has had his iPhone confiscated and been sentenced to a 12-month rehabilitation order.
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ESET's Anton Cherepanov analyzes the work of TeleBots, a malicious toolset that was used in focused cyberattacks against targets in Ukraine's financial sector.
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It has not been a good year for the internet of things, security-wise.
The latest IoT devices found vulnerable to trivial exploitation? Netgear routers.
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A new study from Newcastle University in the UK suggests that cybercriminals can access online banking details of any Visa card through a so-called Distributed Guessing Attack.
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ESET's Cameron Camp takes a closer look at security by design for mobile device manufacturers, assessing where we are and where we are heading.
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ESET's Miguel Ángel Mendoza looks at why combining technology with standards could combat fraud.
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ESET's Anton Cherepanov Jean-Ian Boutin discuss their paper, titled Modern Attacks on Russian Financial Institutions, which was published earlier this year.
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Malicious code could have been used to compromise an account, forward messages to an external account, or even spread a Yahoo Mail-infecting virus.
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Alonzo Knowles was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty in a separate case involving the hacking of female celebrities' online accounts
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The security landscape has evolved to a point where most IT threats occur with the intention of generating financial gain for their creators and financiers.
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Get Safe Online has issued a warning to consumers to be aware of banking scammers, as cybercriminals are finding more sophisticated ways to access their account details.
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Go ahead and hack your car, that’s fine now. Go ahead and hack the Department of Defense, that’s okay too under new policies. It wasn't always this way.
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Users are warned to be on the look out for spam emails and reminded to never re-use passwords, as popular video-watching site suffers a data breach.
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Visiting popular websites and getting infected without any interaction? ESET explains how the stealthy Stegano exploit kit, hiding in the pixels of malicious ads, is capable of performing this dirty job.
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Millions of readers who visit popular news websites have been targeted by a series of malicious ads redirecting them to the Stegano exploit kit.
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2016 witnessed the further spread of the disease we call ransomware. However, it's not the only cyberthreat that service providers must face today.
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ESET lifts the lid on Android ransomware - the picture doesn't look good. It's on the increase and extremely sophisticated.
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David Harley, talking about child safety and security in (and yet not in) the South Atlantic.
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A year ago on 2nd December 2015, a collaboration between major cybersecurity firms, law enforcement and software providers – including ESET and Microsoft – successfully managed to disrupt Dorkbot, a malware family that had been infiltrating systems worldwide for over four years. Since its detection in April 2011, Dorkbot had caused numerous problems for businesses
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Earlier this week coordinated law enforcement action took down the Avalanche fast-flux network. ESET has been assisting in the cleanup.
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