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  • A look at the VB2016 sponsors

    Today, we are exactly one month away from the start of VB2016 , the 26th Virus Bulletin International Conference, which is to take place 5-7 October in Denver, Colorado. We thought this was a good moment to highlight the sponsors of the conference. We are excited to be sponsored by such a broad range of…

  • A look at the VB2016 sponsors

    Today, we are exactly one month away from the start of VB2016 , the 26th Virus Bulletin International Conference, which is to take place 5-7 October in Denver, Colorado. We thought this was a good moment to highlight the sponsors of the conference. We are excited to be sponsored by such a broad range of…

  • Guest Blog: Malicious Scripts Gaining Prevalence in Brazil

    In the run up to VB2016, we invited the conference sponsors to write guest posts for our blog. In the second of this series, ESET’s Matías Porolli writes about malicious Visual Basic and JavaScript gaining prevalence in Brazil. Had we looked at the map of malware detections in Brazil a year ago, we would have seen…

  • Guest Blog: Malicious Scripts Gaining Prevalence in Brazil

    In the run up to VB2016, we invited the conference sponsors to write guest posts for our blog. In the second of this series, ESET’s Matías Porolli writes about malicious Visual Basic and JavaScript gaining prevalence in Brazil. Had we looked at the map of malware detections in Brazil a year ago, we would have seen…

  • Guest blog: Espionage toolkit uncovered targeting Central and Eastern Europe

    In the run up to VB2016 , we invited the conference sponsors to write guest posts for our blog. In the first of this series, ESET writes about the SBDH toolkit. Over the course of the last year, ESET has detected and analysed several instances of malware used for targeted espionage – dubbed the SBDH…

  • Guest blog: Espionage toolkit uncovered targeting Central and Eastern Europe

    In the run up to VB2016 , we invited the conference sponsors to write guest posts for our blog. In the first of this series, ESET writes about the SBDH toolkit. Over the course of the last year, ESET has detected and analysed several instances of malware used for targeted espionage – dubbed the SBDH…

  • Exploit kit requires link to be clicked before redirection

    Automatic analysis of malicious payloads becomes a little bit harder again. A security researcher at ESET has discovered how a malicious site serving the Angler exploit kit prevents automatic analysis by making a user click a link before being redirected to the exploit kit. Having spent many hours during the past two years building a…

  • India believed to be source of sophisticated surveillance campaigns

    In-depth investigations find widespread worldwide snooping, Pakistan primary target. Several reports have emerged recently covering a highly organised campaign of targeted espionage malware that has been seen in many countries around the world and stealing data from many industries. Close investigation has provided strong hints that the campaign originated in India, with Pakistan the most…

  • All change at the top for ESET

    VB regulars Richard Marko and Andrew Lee appointed to top management roles. Congratulations are due to Richard Marko and Andrew Lee as they take up new positions within ESET . The company announced earlier this week that its owners Miroslav Trnka, Rudolf Hrubý, Maros Grund and Anton Zajac will be stepping down from the day-to-day…

  • ESET buys COMDOM

    Security vendor strengthens anti-spam capabilities. Slovakian security vendor ESET has announced the acquisition of Slovakian anti-spam firm COMDOM Software . The anti-spam firm’s developers have previously worked with ESET on the development of the NOD32 platform for Linux mail servers. Now, ESET will use COMDOM ‘s anti-spam technology and expertise to strengthen its range of…