ESET Threat Blog

Many of you have read the last few weeks that we published posts on trends for 2012 in the field of malware and cybercrime. In this series I wrote a post based on the document that the Education and Research team of ESET Latin America put together, entitled "2012 Predictions: More mobile malware and localized … Read More…

As expected, malware developers and scam artists have greeted the death of North Korea's dictatorial leader, Kim Jong-il, with Black Hat SEO and Social Engineering attacks. The Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea suffered a heart attack on a train journey last month and a steady stream of schemes to exploit the … Read More…

I want share with you what ESET Latin America’s Research team thinks will be the main trends in malware and cybercrime in 2012. In our office it is usual to produce an analysis of emerging trends in a year-end report and so, in keeping with recent postings by my ESET colleagues, I present a summary … Read More…

Yesterday the U.S. president, Barak Obama, held a conference at the White House to announce that the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. With no doubt, this is a story with an international impact, which the people will remember in the coming days and… attackers as well. As expected, … Read More…

A number of organizations dedicated to online hosting have launched an interesting initiative by naming this day, March 31th, World Backup Day. Who hasn’t ever lost a USB device and has regretted not having a backup? Who hasn’t experienced the death of a hard drive only to lose information that won’t ever be able to … Read More…

My colleague Aryeh Goretsky shared a funny joke from Buttersafe, that I think invites us to mull cyber threats over. Before sharing my thought, I'd rather show you the cartoon itself and see if it makes you smile like it did to me:

The cartoon raises an interesting question: how obvious are security threats? I invite … Read More…

Phishing attacks have grown steadily in recent years, becoming a highly profitable attack for cyber criminals. In ESET Latin America’s Laboratory, we are used to finding and informing about phishing attack outbreaks in our region. A few days ago, we found a new case of phishing, for which we investigated the effectiveness of the attack.
In … Read More…

During my regular reading on the main feeds on information security this week, I found a small and particular news that, I consider, invites us to think about it. It turns out that according to a post by Mickey Boodaei, CEO of Trusteer, mobile phones users are three times more likely to become victims of … Read More…