ESET Threat Blog

So farewell, then, 2011. (With apologies to Private Eye's poet-less-than-laureate E.J. Thribb.)
ESET's December ThreatSense Report, as before, looks at threat trends over the year, rather than just the past month. In particular, we've noted that despite the very real impact of Microsoft's countermeasures this year against infection by the type of threat we generally categorize as … Read More…

Urban Schrott, my colleague at ESET Ireland, has been sharing some interesting statistical information in recent months from surveys conducted on the company's behalf in Ireland, covering such issues as infection patterns, attitudes to security and safe computing, and password usage, and much of that information has found its way into our monthly Threatsense Reports … 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…

There is some pretty interesting content in ESET's Threat Report for July:

Urban Schrott talks about ESET Ireland's recent research into the ways in which people can recklessly aid and abet malware in compromising their own systems, by ignoring or bypassing AV protection.
David Harley (oh, that would be me…) summarizes some of the recent research coming … Read More…

April? Haven't we moved on from there?
Well, yes, but ESET's ThreatSense report for April does include, apart from some information on the top ten threats for the month, a feature article by Urban Schrott on the far-from-dead 419 scam, some information on recent and upcoming events such as the AMTSO workshop (which I've just attended: much more information on that … Read More…

The March Threatsense report at http://www.eset.com/us/resources/threat-trends/Global_Threat_Trends_March_2011.pdf includes, apart from the Top Ten threats:

a feature article on Japanese-disaster-related scamming by Urban Schrott and myself
news of the Infosec Europe expo in London on the 19th-21st April, the AMTSO and CARO workshops in Prague in May, and the EICAR Conference in Austria that follows
the story of a fake AV … Read More…

The February ThreatSense Report is now available from the ESET Threat Center. As well as the top ten threats reported globally by our ThreatSense.Net telemetry, it includes feature articles from Josep Albors and Urban Schrott, as well as some shorter news items:

From Russia with spam (Josep Albors)
Misplaced trust in trustworthy names? (Urban Schrott)
Nothing exceeds like … Read More…

The December ThreatSense report, being the last report of the year, is a little bigger than usual, and takes a longer view. It includes:

A feature article by Pierre-Marc Bureau and Alexis Dorais Joncas on the Bflient.K malware kit.
A feature article by Urban Schrott on "The Wikileaks Affair and the Cyberworld"
ESET researchers across the globe putting … Read More…

This is a (slightly edited) extract from the November ThreatSense Report, included here as it makes a very serious point about social networking,
Andrew Lee conducted a fun but disquieting thought experiment in the course of an amusing and informative presentation on user education at the recent Virus Bulletin Seminar.
Most security researchers have an innate distrust of … Read More…

In March 2010 we changed the format of this document, as we found that some people thought it was just a list of the top ten threats, which hasn’t been the case for a long while. Of course, those data are still included, but we’ve moved them to the end of the document. As you’ll … Read More…