CyberSecure Specialist

The year got off to a busy start, with January offering an early snapshot of the challenges that (not just) cybersecurity teams are likely to face in the months ahead. It’s therefore time for ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe to look back on some of the month’s most impactful cybersecurity stories. Here’s some of what caught Tony’s eye: What are some of the lessons businesses should take away from these incidents? Be sure to…

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ESET researchers have uncovered an Android spyware campaign leveraging romance scam tactics to target individuals in Pakistan. The campaign uses a malicious app posing as a chat platform that allows users to initiate conversations with specific “girls” – fake profiles probably operated via WhatsApp. Underneath the romance charade, the real purpose of the malicious app, which we named GhostChat, is exfiltration of the victim’s data – both upon first execution and continually while the app…

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Digital Security Has your inbox recently been deluged with unwanted and even outright malicious messages? Here are 10 possible reasons – and how to stem the tide. Phil Muncaster 27 Jan 2026  •  , 5 min. read For all our modern obsession with social media and messaging apps, email remains a daily staple for many of us. Modern email providers are pretty good at filtering out unsolicited messages known as spam, their checks don’t necessarily…

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ESET Research The attack involved data-wiping malware that ESET researchers have now analyzed and named DynoWiper ESET Research 23 Jan 2026  •  , 1 min. read In late 2025, Poland’s energy system faced what has been described as the “largest cyberattack” targeting the country in years. ESET Research has now found that the attack was the work of the notorious Russia-aligned APT group Sandworm. “Based on our analysis of the malware and associated TTPs, we attribute the…

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Kids Online As children turn to AI chatbots for answers, advice, and companionship, questions emerge about their safety, privacy, and emotional development Phil Muncaster 23 Jan 2026  •  , 4 min. read AI chatbots have become a big part of all of our lives since they burst onto the scene more than three years ago. ChatGPT, for example, says it has around 700 million weekly active users, many of whom are “young people.” A UK…

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Here’s how the most common scams targeting Apple Pay users work and what you can do to stay one step ahead Phil Muncaster 22 Jan 2026  •  , 6 min. read Apple Pay is clearly a hit with consumers. According to estimates, it had hundreds of millions of global users and processed trillions of payments in 2025 alone. But where there is money to be made, scammers will not be far behind. Apple is well…

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