CyberSecure Specialist

ESET Research ESET researchers detected multiple, widespread phishing campaigns targeting SMBs in Poland during May 2024, distributing various malware families Jakub Kaloč 30 Jul 2024  •  , 8 min. read Just a few months back, ESET Research published a blogpost about massive phishing campaigns across Central and Eastern Europe carried out during the second half of 2023. In those campaigns Rescoms malware (also known as Remcos), protected by AceCryptor, was delivered to potential victims with…

Generative AI (GenAI) is making waves across the world. Its popularity and widespread use has also attracted the attention of cybercriminals, leading to various cyberthreats. Yet much discussion around threats associated with tools like ChatGPT has focused on how the technology can be misused to help fraudsters create convincing phishing messages, produce malicious code or probe for vulnerabilities. Perhaps fewer people are talking about the use of GenAI as a lure and a Trojan horse…

Video Attackers abusing the “EvilVideo” vulnerability could share malicious Android payloads via Telegram channels, groups, and chats, all while making them appear as legitimate multimedia files 26 Jul 2024 This week, ESET researchers documented their discovery of a zero-day exploit that appeared for sale on underground forums and targets the Telegram app for Android. The underlying vulnerability, which the researchers named “EvilVideo”, was being used to distribute malicious files posing as videos. ESET reported the…

In the past few months, the Telegram clicker game Hamster Kombat has taken the world of cryptocurrency game enthusiasts by storm. Even though the gameplay, which mostly entails repeatedly tapping the screen of one’s mobile device, might be rather simple, players are after something more: the possibility of earning big once Hamster Kombat’s creators unveil the promised new cryptocoin tied to the game. Due to its success, the game has already attracted countless copycats that…

Digital Security Organizations, including those that weren’t struck by the CrowdStrike incident, should resist the temptation to attribute the IT meltdown to exceptional circumstances Tony Anscombe 23 Jul 2024  •  , 3 min. read As the dust settles on the cyber-incident caused by CrowdStrike releasing a corrupted update, many businesses will, or should, conduct a thorough post-mortem on how the incident affected their business and what could be done differently going forward. For most critical…