Continuous Monitoring and Protection
If you’ve been the victim of fraud, you’re likely already a lead on a ‘sucker list’ – and if you’re not careful, your ordeal may be about to get worse. Phil Muncaster 10 Apr 2026 • , 5 min. read The worst thing you can do after falling victim to fraud is let your guard down. Online scammers only care about one thing: making money, so when new opportunities arise to do just that, they…
Read MoreBusiness Security Threat actors are using AI to supercharge tried-and-tested TTPs. When attacks move this fast, cyber-defenders need to rethink their own strategy. Phil Muncaster 07 Apr 2026 • , 4 min. read We stand at an interesting point in the never-ending arms race between attackers and defenders. The former are using AI, automation and a range of techniques to sometimes devastating effect. In fact, one report claims that 80% of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) groups now…
Read MoreHackers linked to Russia’s military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft Office users, security experts warned today. The spying campaign allowed state-backed Russian hackers to quietly siphon authentication tokens from users on more than 18,000 networks without deploying any malicious software or code. Microsoft said in a blog post today it identified more than 200 organizations and 5,000 consumer devices that were caught up…
Read MoreAn elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across the country between 2019 and 2021. Shchukin was named as UNKN (a.k.a. UNKNOWN) in an advisory published by the German…
Read MoreDigital Security Fraudsters often target the accounts of the deceased or their grieving relatives. Here’s how to keep the scammers at bay. Phil Muncaster 01 Apr 2026 • , 5 min. read Can you imagine all of the things you’ll leave behind when your time is finally up? Heirlooms? Property? Other ‘tangibles’? Now just have a think about all of the digital assets you’re likely to leave for loved ones to manage. Email accounts, shared…
Read MoreThe past four weeks have seen a slew of new cybersecurity wake-up calls that showed why every organization needs a well-thought-out cyber-resilience plan 31 Mar 2026 As March 2026 draws to a close, ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe looks at some of the top cybersecurity stories that made the news this month and offers insights that they may hold for your cyber-defenses. Here’s Tony’s rundown of some of what stood out most over the…
Read MoreBusiness Security Silver Fox is back in Japan, spoofing tax and HR emails timed to the one season when no one thinks twice about opening them 27 Mar 2026 • , 4 min. read Japan has entered its annual tax filing and organizational change season, a period when companies generate a high volume of legitimate financial and HR‑related communications. A threat actor known as Silver Fox is actively exploiting this busy period by conducting a…
Read MoreThis year, AI agents took the center stage – as a defensive capability, but more pressingly as a risk many organizations haven’t caught up with 27 Mar 2026 That’s a wrap on the RSAC™ 2026 Conference. For its 35th edition, the conference drew the usual mix of security practitioners, researchers and vendors. Predictably, AI agents dominated much of the conversation – as a defensive capability, but more pressingly as a risk that many organizations have…
Read MoreTwenty years ago, almost to the day, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Simple Storage Service (S3). A few months later, the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service opened for public beta testing before rolling out officially in 2008. These events sparked the era of modern on-demand cloud storage and computing that changed how organizations of all sizes think about their IT infrastructure. Fast-forward to the present and you would be hard-pressed to find many organizations that haven’t ‘lifted and shifted’…
Read MoreBusiness Security As IT infrastructure expands, visibility and control often lag behind – until an incident forces a reckoning Tomáš Foltýn 24 Mar 2026 • , 4 min. read Complexity is said to be the enemy of many things, but when it comes to organizations and their IT systems and processes, complexity is arguably the worst enemy of cybersecurity. For many IT and security practitioners, this plays out daily as they scramble to manage what IBM…
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