CyberSecurity Updates

Digital 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…

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The 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…

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Business 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…

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This 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…

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Twenty 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’…

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Business 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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Cybercriminals go after people’s personal information across every kind of online platform, including WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn, Roblox, YouTube and Spotify, not to mention finance apps. No online account is off the table. If one of your own accounts falls victim, the first priority is to avoid losing your cool and act immediately – the faster you move, the more of the attacker’s work you can interrupt. The attacker’s first move after gaining access could be…

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In recent years, EDR killers have become one of the most commonly seen tools in modern ransomware intrusions: an attacker acquires high privileges, deploys such a tool to disrupt protection, and only then launches the encryptor. Besides the dominating Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) technique, we also see attackers frequently abusing legitimate anti-rootkit utilities or using driverless approaches to block the communication of endpoint detection and response (EDR) software or suspend it in place.…

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