ESET Threat Blog

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…

I should probably have mentioned this before, but it's only just hit my radar.
ESET's October ThreatSense report is available on the Threat Center page as Global Threats Trends for October 2010. Naturally, it includes the usual information about the top ten global threats reported by ThreatSense.Net telemetry in October, which are:
 

INF/Autorun
Win32/Conficker
Win32/PSW.OnLineGames
Win32/Sality
INF/Conficker
Win32/Tifaut.C
HTML/ScrInject.B
Win32/Bflient.K
JS/TrojanClicker.Agent.NAZ
Win32/Spy.Ursnif.A

It also includes articles on:

Feature Article by … Read More…

Well, not exactly, though actually a top ten of top tens isn't a bad idea: apparently, top tens usually attract plenty of readers.  As do top fives. twenties etc, though probably not top thirteens.
Security Memes a Lot to Me
Still, there is a touch of recursion to this post. I got a notification from the Security … Read More…

OK, so I lied about not doing a top ten. Twice.
For a paper that's going through the publication process at the moment, I revisited some of the ideas that our research team at ESET LLC came up with this time last year for a top ten things that people can do to protect themselves … Read More…

1. Every security blogger in the world will mark the transition from 2009 to 2010 with at least one top ten something-or-other article. Except me, of course. 
2. There will be headlines about the death of anti-virus, and a famous security guru will state that anti-malware only catches malware that's already been identified and analysed, that he's … Read More…

ESET released its Global Threat Report for the month of September, 2009, identifying the top ten threats seen during the month by ESET's ThreatSense.Net™ cloud.  You can view the report here and, as always, the complete collection is available here in the Threat Trends section of our web site.  While the report identifies a number … 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…

And finally…
Don’t use cracked/pirated software! These are easy avenues for introducing malware into, or exploiting weaknesses in, a system. This also includes the illegal P2P (peer-to-peer) distribution of copyrighted audio and video files: some of these are counterfeited or modified so that they can be used directly in the malware distribution process.
Even if a utility … Read More…

It occurs to me that I should make it clear that this "top ten" isn’t in any particular order. Like the other "top ten" suggestions by the research team that are likely to find their way here in the near future, they’re all significant issues that need thinking about.
Point 9 (a short one!) is, don’t connect … Read More…

Don’t expect antivirus alone to protect you from everything.
Use additional measures such as a personal firewall, antispam and anti-phishing toolbars, but be aware that there is a lot of fake security software out there. This means that you need to take care to invest in reputable security solutions, not malware which claims to fix non-existent … Read More…