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While the trackers in LastPass’s Android app don’t collect any personal data, the news may not sit well with some privacy-minded users LastPass, a popular password manager, has come under some fire following a report that its Android app features seven built-in advertising and analytics trackers that gather data ranging from the user’s device type…

Some perpetrators of online crime and fraud don’t use advanced methods to profit at the expense of unsuspecting victims and to avoid getting caught While a lot of media coverage centers on how threat actors are becoming better at evading capture and generally deploy ever more sophisticated techniques, I wanted to tell a story where…

A primer on various threats looming over financial companies and the steps that these organizations can take to counter them Companies operating in the financial services industry aren’t by any means strangers to being targeted by various forms of financial crimes and fraud. However, over time, the playing field has changed and threat actors have…

At least one vulnerability is being exploited by multiple cyberespionage groups to attacks targets mainly in the US, per ESET telemetry Microsoft has rushed out emergency updates to address four zero-day flaws affecting Microsoft Exchange Server versions 2013, 2016, and 2019. Threat actors have been observed exploiting the vulnerabilities in the wild to access on-premises…

For over a decade, ESET and the San Diego Police Foundation have been working together to help keep children safe from online threats As one of the United States’ most famous presidents, John F. Kennedy, once said, “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” This is one of…

Are you a bull or a bear? If you can’t access your data and money, do your sentiments about the market still matter? I was recently asked about how software vulnerabilities in stock trading apps and platforms might put users’ finances and personal data at risk. Given the dependence of today’s societies and economies on…

As dating apps experience a boom amid COVID-19, losses to romance scams soar too More and more people have been flocking to online dating platforms in search of romance and companionship in the wake of lockdowns and social distancing mandates, but the new reality is also creating conditions that contribute to record-high losses from romance…

The Exaramel backdoor, discovered by ESET in 2018, resurfaces in a campaign hitting companies that use an outdated version of a popular IT monitoring tool France’s national cybersecurity agency ANSSI has disclosed details about an intrusion campaign targeting IT services firms that run the Centreon IT resource monitoring tool. The attacks, which have hit mainly…

The first instance of malicious code native to Apple Silicon M1 Macs emerged a month after the release of devices equipped with the company’s in-house CPUs In November, Apple debuted to great acclaim a series of Mac computers sporting its new Apple Silicon M1 chips. The release of the new hardware also grabbed the attention…

Both hacktivists and extortionists have used telephony denial-of-service attacks as a way to further their goals The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a stark warning about consequences that telephony denial-of-service (TDoS) attacks on call centers could have on people’s lives. If launched against critical call centers, TDoS attacks could ultimately prevent callers from…