CyberSecure Specialist

ESET’s Jake Moore used smart glasses, deepfakes and face swaps to ‘hack’ widely-used facial recognition systems – and he’ll demo it all at RSAC 2026 Tomáš Foltýn 13 Mar 2026  •  , 2 min. read Facial recognition is increasingly embedded in everything from airport boarding gates to bank onboarding flows. The widely-held assumption is that a face is hard to fake and that matching a live face to a trusted source is a reliable identity…

The war in Iran was less than 24 hours old when it produced a historic first: the deliberate targeting of commercial data centers. On March 1st, Iranian drones hit three Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, disrupting core cloud infrastructure and knocking out finance apps and enterprise tools not only across the Gulf, but also far away from the region. The attacks showed that physical distance from a conflict…

Since April 2024, Sednit’s advanced development team has reemerged with a modern toolkit centered on two paired implants, BeardShell and Covenant, each using a different cloud provider for resilience. This dual‑implant approach enabled long‑term surveillance of Ukrainian military personnel. Interestingly, these current toolsets show a direct code lineage to the group’s 2010‑era implants. Key points of this blogpost: ESET researchers traced the reactivation of Sednit’s advanced implant team to a 2024 case in Ukraine, where…

Business Security The ability to continue operating safely in an unsafe environment where competitors cannot is a competitive advantage that is rarely measured or discussed Tomáš Foltýn 06 Mar 2026  •  , 5 min. read Cybersecurity is one of the few business functions where success is typically quiet. From the outside, it may even look uneventful. On the inside, however, it reflects a sequence of seemingly unremarkable processes and controls doing what they were designed…

Corporate IT and security teams have the unenviable task of keeping relentless and increasingly sophisticated adversaries at bay. They’re often faced with limited resources and expanding attack surfaces, but recruiting and retaining top-tier security professionals to run an in-house Security Operations Centre (SOC) is out of reach for many organizations. At the same time, threats continue to evolve and adversaries hone their techniques, leading to incidents that often grind business operations to a halt. To…