ESET Threat Blog

There’s a new batch of malware making the rounds, this time directed at spreading banking malware through childrens’ games. Though it’s hard to imagine, the scammers are taking advantage of the naivete of kids, who may not be as skilled at detecting scams as their more seasoned parents.
According to an article in Softpedia, the attacks … Read More…

…but I'm not convinced that LulzSec's admiration for Nintendo and Sega makes them suitable playmates. More about that in my latest article for SC Magazine's Cybercrime Corner:
Bad boys and black ops
The fact is, as Tom Brewster suggests, that whatever the hacker community's personal taste is in games and consoles, gamers are a tempting target. The … Read More…

Update: It seems like the initial article is inaccurate and that Paul Rellis never made any such comments about a 14 year old breaking into the X-Box live servers and have not offered to mentor him http://kotaku.com/5805742/microsoft-is-helping-an-xbox-live-hacker-develop-his-talent
TekGoblin reports (http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/05/27/14-year-old-call-of-duty-hacker-hired-by-microsoft/) that a teenager who broke into the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 gameservers last month, … Read More…

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, opens in Los Angeles on June 15th. There will be a lot of news coming out of this major expo and that means a lot of press. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are all set to announce new games and motion control devices that are certain to attract a lot … Read More…

A number of new papers have been added to the white papers page:

Cristian Borghello’s "Playing Dirty" is a translation of his original Spanish paper, available on the ESET Latin America web site, and describes in detail how criminals make money out of stealing online gaming credentials and assets. http://www.eset.com/download/whitepapers/EsetWP-PlayingDirty20090812.pdf
My paper "Social Security Numbers: Identification is … Read More…

Just a few short days ago I read the announcement that Microsoft announced a new relationship with the social networking services Twitter and Facebook. The relationship was created to enable users of Xbox Live to access their profiles and post photos to their Facebook accounts and allow Twitter users to post and read messages – … Read More…

Here at ESET we have just released our Global ThreatTrends report for January 2009.
Not surprisingly, at the top of the list is a family of programs that exploit Microsoft’s longest unpatched vulnerability. That’s right, Autorun.inf, is an evil “feature” that should have been patched out of existence a long time ago. Since it is so … Read More…

The top ten (twenty, twenty-five…) season doesn’t seem to have finished yet: the latest to cross my radar was something like seven ways of surviving the recession, which I’m sure is of interest to all of us, but not really in scope for this blog.
So here’s a snippet from our 2008 Global Threat Report, … Read More…