CyberSecure Specialist

In a day and age where everything is digital, a data breach or cyberattack can cost any organization dearly, affecting it financially, operationally, legally and reputationally – to the point of possibly jeopardizing its very existence. What’s more, successful attacks on providers of critical services such as healthcare and energy supplies can cause large-scale disruptions, putting people’s lives at risk and leading to widespread chaos. Worryingly, the global demand for security professionals continues to outpace…

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Video ESET research dives deep into a series of attacks that leveraged bespoke toolsets to compromise air-gapped systems belonging to governmental and diplomatic entities 11 Oct 2024 This week, ESET researchers published the results of their probe into a series of attacks that leveraged bespoke toolsets to compromise air-gapped systems belonging to governmental and diplomatic entities, including those based in Europe. The toolsets were deployed by a little-known APT group called GoldenJackal and allowed it…

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The growing popularity of online marketplaces has attracted fraudsters preying on unsuspecting buyers and sellers, looking to score payment card information rather than to strike a bargain. ESET researchers have found that one such organized scammer network – which uses Telekopye, a toolkit discovered by ESET Research in 2023 – has expanded its operations to target users of popular accommodation booking platforms. Last year, we published a two-part blogpost series on Telekopye, a Telegram-based toolkit…

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Business Security Could human risk in cybersecurity be managed with a cyber-rating, much like credit scores help assess people’s financial responsibility? Tony Anscombe 08 Oct 2024  •  , 5 min. read It’s undeniable that cyber insurance and cybersecurity are intrinsically linked. One requires the other, and they are a perfect pairing, even if they may deny the relationship. Looking ahead, however, we probably need to add a third party into the relationship: the business. Now…

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ESET researchers discovered a series of attacks on a governmental organization in Europe using tools capable of targeting air-gapped systems. The campaign, which we attribute to GoldenJackal, a cyberespionage APT group that targets government and diplomatic entities, took place from May 2022 to March 2024. By analyzing the toolset deployed by the group, we were able to identify an attack GoldenJackal carried out earlier, in 2019, against a South Asian embassy in Belarus that, yet…

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