ransomware

Latest ESET Threat Report highlights remarkable adaptability of cybercriminals

ESET has released its latest Threat Report, which summarizes threat landscape trends seen in ESET telemetry from December 2022 through May 2023. In H1 2023, we observed developments highlighting cyber...

Russian hackers continue to target Ukraine

ESET Research released its latest APT Activity Report, which summarizes discoveries about select advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that were observed, investigated, and analyzed by ESET research...

Top 10 major challenges facing cybersecurity

To mark Antimalware Day this year, Juan Manuel Harán from ESET rounds up some of the most pressing issues for cybersecurity now and in the future 

ESET uncovers new wiper malware in Ukraine

ESET researchers have uncovered yet another destructive data wiper that was used in attacks against organizations in Ukraine. The new malware dubbed CaddyWiper by ESET analysts, was first detected at ...

Ransomware costs US companies almost $21 billion in downtime

Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET explains that the victims lost an average of nine days to downtime and two-and-a-half months to investigations, an analysis of disclosed attacks shows

ESET Threat Report highlights several concerning trends

ESET released today its T2 2021 Threat Report highlighting several concerning trends, including increasingly aggressive ransomware tactics, intensifying brute-force attacks, and deceptive phishing cam...

How to minimize the impact of a ransomware attack

Cameron Camp, Security Researcher at ESET explains that by failing to prepare you are preparing to fail – here’s what you can do today to minimize the impact of a potential ransomware attack in the fu...

ESET joins global initiative to fight against ransomware

ESET recently announced that it has joined hands with No More Ransom, an international initiative between Europol, the Dutch National Police and major cybersecurity organizations in the fight against ...

ESET releases decryption tool for Syrian victims

Ondrej Kubovič, ESET Security Awareness Specialist highlights that ESET experts have created a new decryption tool that can be used by Syrian victims of the GandCrab ransomware. It is based on a set o...