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Cybercrime is targeting the Swiss FinTech industry
March 3, 2021
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ESET informs: Current cybercrime campaign targets the Swiss FinTech industry. Evilnum Group wants to infiltrate and spy on companies. Companies in Switzerland, but also in EU countries, should currently pay close attention to their incoming e-mails. The hacker group Evilnum is currently very active again and is targeting FinTech companies. With so-called spear phishing emails, i.e. very targeted attacks against selected targets, the recipients are to be induced to click on a link to a ZIP file and extract it. In addition to an invoice and identification documents, this also contains malware. At first glance you can see the ...

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Cybercrime has specialized in 2020
March 1, 2021
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Fraudulent vaccination promises dominate the spam volume. ESET Threat Report: Ransomware is used for targeted attacks. Cybercrime has specialized in 2020. This is a conclusion of the Threat Report for the fourth quarter of 2020, which ESET has now published. The experts of the European IT security manufacturer also used the last report of the past year to look back on the year as a whole and to look ahead to 2021. Ransomware against companies One result of the report: Ransomware is being used more and more for targeted attacks against companies. Hackers, on the other hand, rely less and less on encryption Trojans for wide-ranging mass attacks. In addition, ...

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Backdoor Kobalos targets supercomputers
24. February 2021
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As reported by ESET, supercomputers around the world are threatened by the Kobalos backdoor. Remote access gives cybercriminals unimagined opportunities. With their enormous computing power, supercomputers shouldn't get into the hands of criminals - the consequences would be fatal. But that's exactly what happened after discoveries by ESET researchers. Strangers use the Kobalos backdoor to successfully attack so-called performance computer (HPC) clusters and gain extensive access. The victims include a large Asian ISP, a North American endpoint security provider, and several corporate and government servers. Attack against Linux, BSD and Solaris Kobalos was launched for Linux, BSD and Solaris ...

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SME investments in IT security 
24. February 2021
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SME investments in IT security

SMEs are currently investing in IT security. This is reported by a new ESET study. The willingness of companies to invest in IT security and digitization is picking up speed despite the pandemic in 2021. The digitization of the economy is in full swing, investments are being made more heavily than ever before. But what role does IT security play in this: Are companies sticking to the status quo or are they sustainably accepting the challenge of the changing market situation caused by Corona? The IT security manufacturer ESET pursued this question in a representative survey in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. And the results show that company leaders ...

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