ESET Threat Blog

ESET's Threat Report for October has just gone up on the ESET Threat Center page. Apart from information on the Top Ten Threats of the month, it also includes:

An article by ESET Ireland's Urban Schrott on how safe people feel online, based on a recent survey in Ireland
An article by David Harley wondering whether when … Read More…

ESET had quite a strong representation at Virus Bulletin this year in Barcelona, as David Harley mentioned in his post prior to the conference.
On the first day, Pierre-Marc Bureau presented his findings about the Kelihos botnet, David Harley and AVG’s Larry Bridwell discussed the usefulness and present state of AV testing, and to finish the … Read More…

As I've spent a lot of blogging time here, here and elsewhere on cold-calling/support desk scams, I didn't think I could let the recent flurry of publicity on Microsoft's disavowal of one of its Gold Partners because of their alleged implication in this kind of scam. I gave my own take on the topic at Securiteam, so … Read More…

The United States Attorney Office for the Southern District of New York received a flurry of attention in April, 2011 when they unsealed an indictment against the three largest Internet poker companies in the United States—Absolute Poker, Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars—for fraud, gambling and money laundering.  Today, the USAO upped the ante with an … Read More…

ESET's August ThreatSense report is now available on the Threat Center page. It includes:

A feature article by Urban Schrott on the degree to which the Irish expose themselves to holiday-related scamming peril by revealing their plans on social media sites
A follow-up to/expanded version of an earlier article of mine for SC Magazine on possible legal consequences of … Read More…

We all pay lip service to the idea of backup, but sometimes you have to actually lose some data that you don't have backed up before you really appreciate how important it is. In fact, consideration of backup strategies and mechanisms is generally a major component of generalist security courses and certifications, and quite rightly. To … Read More…

It has been 1,000 days since the Conficker worm first appeared on November 21, 2008.  For the first two months after its initial appearance we received a trickle of reports through our ThreatSense.NET telemetry system.  By January of 2009 that had become a flood, and then a deluge, as this “super worm” rose to meteoric … Read More…

With the publication last year of Aryeh Goretsky's paper “Twenty years before the mouse,” a personal perspective on  the history of viruses and malware so far, I took the opportunity to try something a little different for this blog by announcing it here in an article in an interview format.  
Since people seemed to like it, we … Read More…

Forensic software developer PassWare announced a new version of its eponymous software forensics kit on Tuesday. Already several news sources are writing about how the program can automatically obtain the login password from a locked or sleeping Mac simply by plugging in a USB flash drive containing their software and connecting it to another computer … Read More…

[Update: the Washington Post article to which "A Dude" refers in his comment is here.]
Back in 2009 I blogged about the fact that UK telecoms giant BT was buying in components for its £10 billion network from the Chinese telecoms supplier Huawei. This article came in part from a leaked memo demonstrating concerns in Whitehall at the time that … Read More…