ESET Threat Blog

Back in 2008 ESET's global research teams put together some suggestions for "a top ten of things that people can do to protect themselves against malicious activity." That series of blogs was subsequently expanded into a paper called "Ten Ways to Dodge CyberBullets", addressing the question "what are the top 10 things that people can … Read More…

Earlier this month, we reported on the massive new Koobface campaign making the rounds through Facebook and how it tricked users into downloading and running it through that tenet of social engineering, the fake codec. We now have a video showing how the Koobface worm tricks users into running it:

NOTE: The audio is not completely … Read More…

Two new white papers have been posted on the white papers page at http://www.eset.com/download/whitepapers.php.
(1) "Ten Ways to Dodge CyberBullets" by David Harley
Around New Year it seems that everyone wants a top 10: the top 10 most stupid remarks made by celebrities, the 10 worst-dressed French poodles, the 10 most embarrassing political speeches and so on. … Read More…

Two new papers have gone up on the ESET White Papers page at http://www.eset.com/download/whitepapers.php. (Strictly speaking, they're not altogether new: they include some material that has previously been blogged here.)
The Internet Book of the Dead is a bit different from other papers you’ll find on the ESET white papers page. (Technically, it’s not actually an … Read More…