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FamousSparrow: A suspicious hotel guest
Yet another APT group that exploited the ProxyLogon vulnerability in March 2021
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XDSpy: Stealing government secrets since 2011
ESET researchers uncover a new APT group that has been stealing sensitive documents from several governments in Eastern Europe and the Balkans since 2011
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ESET Research discovers cyber espionage framework Ramsay
The three discovered versions of Ramsay differ in complexity and sophistication, with the latest third version being the most advanced, especially with regard to evasion and persistence.
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Tracking Turla: New backdoor delivered via Armenian watering holes
Can an old APT learn new tricks? Turla’s TTPs are largely unchanged, but the group recently added a Python backdoor
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ESET identifies Latin American banking trojan, Mispadu, targeting victims with malicious Facebook ads
ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, continues its research into Latin American banking trojans with the identification of another previously unknown malware family, Mispadu.
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Tracking down the developer of Android adware affecting millions of users
ESET researchers discovered a year-long adware campaign on Google Play and tracked down its operator. The apps involved, installed eight million times, use several tricks for stealth and persistence.
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Fleecing the onion: Darknet shoppers swindled out of bitcoins via trojanized Tor Browser
ESET researchers discover a trojanized Tor Browser distributed by cybercriminals to steal bitcoins from darknet market buyers
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ESET discovered an undocumented backdoor used by the infamous Stealth Falcon group
ESET researchers discovered a backdoor linked to malware used by the Stealth Falcon group, an operator of targeted spyware attacks against journalists, activists and dissidents in the Middle East
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First‑of‑its‑kind spyware sneaks into Google Play
ESET analysis breaks down the first known spyware that is built on the AhMyth open-source espionage tool and has appeared on Google Play – twice
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Venezuelan military under attack by cyber spies stealing gigabytes of confidential documents
The group is specifically interested in files that describe navigation routes and positioning using military grids among others
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Infamous Buhtrap group behind highly targeted zero-day attack
ESET research reveals notorious crime group also conducting espionage campaigns for the past five years
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Malware sidesteps Google permissions policy with new 2FA bypass technique
ESET analysis uncovers a novel technique bypassing SMS-based two-factor authentication while circumventing Google’s recent SMS permissions restrictions
