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ESET Research

Mustang Panda’s Hodur: Old tricks, new Korplug variant

Mustang Panda’s Hodur: Old tricks, new Korplug variant

ESET Research

Mustang Panda’s Hodur: Old tricks, new Korplug variant

ESET researchers have discovered Hodur, a previously undocumented Korplug variant spread by Mustang Panda, that uses phishing lures referencing current events in Europe, including the invasion of Ukraine

Alexandre Côté Cyr23 Mar 2022


Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

CaddyWiper: New wiper malware discovered in Ukraine

CaddyWiper: New wiper malware discovered in Ukraine

Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

CaddyWiper: New wiper malware discovered in Ukraine

This is the third time in as many weeks that ESET researchers have spotted previously unknown data wiping malware taking aim at Ukrainian organizations

Editor15 Mar 2022


Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

ESET Research webinar: How APT groups have turned Ukraine into a cyber-battlefield

ESET Research webinar: How APT groups have turned Ukraine into a cyber-battlefield

Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

ESET Research webinar: How APT groups have turned Ukraine into a cyber-battlefield

Ukraine has been under cyber-fire for years now – here’s what you should know about various disruptive cyberattacks that have hit the country since 2014

ESET Research11 Mar 2022


ESET Research, Critical Infrastructure

ESET Research Podcast: Ukraine’s past and present cyberwar

ESET Research Podcast: Ukraine’s past and present cyberwar

ESET Research, Critical Infrastructure

ESET Research Podcast: Ukraine’s past and present cyberwar

Press play to hear Aryeh Goretsky, Jean-Ian Boutin and Robert Lipovsky discuss how recent malware attacks in Ukraine tie into years of cyberattacks against the country

ESET Research03 Mar 2022


ESET Research, Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

IsaacWiper and HermeticWizard: New wiper and worm targeting Ukraine

IsaacWiper and HermeticWizard: New wiper and worm targeting Ukraine

ESET Research, Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

IsaacWiper and HermeticWizard: New wiper and worm targeting Ukraine

ESET researchers uncover a new wiper that attacks Ukrainian organizations and a worm component that spreads HermeticWiper in local networks

ESET Research01 Mar 2022


Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

HermeticWiper: New data-wiping malware hits Ukraine

HermeticWiper: New data-wiping malware hits Ukraine

Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center

HermeticWiper: New data-wiping malware hits Ukraine

Hundreds of computers in Ukraine compromised just hours after a wave of DDoS attacks brings down a number of Ukrainian websites

Editor24 Feb 2022


Threat Reports, ESET Research

ESET Threat Report T3 2021

ESET Threat Report T3 2021

Threat Reports, ESET Research

ESET Threat Report T3 2021

A view of the T3 2021 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts

Roman Kováč09 Feb 2022


ESET Research

Watering hole deploys new macOS malware, DazzleSpy, in Asia

Watering hole deploys new macOS malware, DazzleSpy, in Asia

ESET Research

Watering hole deploys new macOS malware, DazzleSpy, in Asia

Hong Kong pro-democracy radio station website compromised to serve a Safari exploit that installed cyberespionage malware on site visitors’ Macs

Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé and Anton Cherepanov25 Jan 2022


ESET Research

DoNot Go! Do not respawn!

DoNot Go! Do not respawn!

ESET Research

DoNot Go! Do not respawn!

ESET researchers take a deep look into recent attacks carried out by Donot Team throughout 2020 and 2021, targeting government and military entities in several South Asian countries

Facundo Muñoz and Matías Porolli18 Jan 2022