Your personal information is on the dark web. What happens next?
If your data is on the dark web, it’s probably only a matter of time before it’s abused for fraud or account hijacking. Here’s what to do.
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Credential stuffing: What it is and how to protect yourself
Reusing passwords may feel like a harmless shortcut – until a single breach opens the door to multiple accounts
From Hypothesis to Action: Proactive Threat Hunting with Elastic Security
Elastic Security is designed to enable hypothesis-driven threat hunting at speed and scale. By unifying security telemetry and enabling analytics across clus...
Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025: call for nominations
Update: nominations are now closed, and voting is live!
This month in security with Tony Anscombe – December 2025 edition
As 2025 draws to a close, Tony looks back at the cybersecurity stories that stood out both in December and across the whole of this year
A brush with online fraud: What are brushing scams and how do I stay safe?
Have you ever received a package you never ordered? It could be a warning sign that your data has been compromised, with more fraud to follow.
Revisiting CVE-2025-50165: A critical flaw in Windows Imaging Component
A comprehensive analysis and assessment of a critical severity vulnerability with low likelihood of mass exploitation
LongNosedGoblin tries to sniff out governmental affairs in Southeast Asia and Japan
ESET researchers discovered a China-aligned APT group, LongNosedGoblin, which uses Group Policy to deploy cyberespionage tools across networks of governmenta...
Welcome to the new Project Zero Blog
While on Project Zero, we aim for our research to be leading-edge, our blog design was … not so much. We welcome readers to our shiny new blog!
ESET Threat Report H2 2025
A view of the H2 2025 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts
Black Hat Europe 2025: Was that device designed to be on the internet at all?
Behind the polished exterior of many modern buildings sit outdated systems with vulnerabilities waiting to be found
Black Hat Europe 2025: Reputation matters – even in the ransomware economy
Being seen as reliable is good for ‘business’ and ransomware groups care about 'brand reputation' just as much as their victims
Locks, SOCs and a cat in a box: What Schrödinger can teach us about cybersecurity
If you don’t look inside your environment, you can’t know its true state – and attackers count on that
NANOREMOTE, cousin of FINALDRAFT
The fully-featured backdoor we call NANOREMOTE shares characteristics with malware described in REF7707 and is similar to the FINALDRAFT implant.
Seeking symmetry during ATT&CK® season: How to harness today’s diverse analyst and tester landscape to paint a security masterpiece
Interpreting the vast cybersecurity vendor landscape through the lens of industry analysts and testing authorities can immensely enhance your cyber-resilience.
The Fragile Lock: Novel Bypasses For SAML Authentication
TLDR This post shows how to achieve a full authentication bypass in the Ruby and PHP SAML ecosystem by exploiting several parser-level inconsistencies: inclu...
The big catch: How whaling attacks target top executives
Is your organization’s senior leadership vulnerable to a cyber-harpooning? Learn how to keep them safe.
Automating detection tuning requests with Kibana cases
Learn how to automate detection rule tuning requests in Elastic Security. This guide shows how to add custom fields to Cases, create a rule to detect tuning ...
Phishing, privileges and passwords: Why identity is critical to improving cybersecurity posture
Identity is effectively the new network boundary. It must be protected at all costs.
MuddyWater: Snakes by the riverbank
MuddyWater targets critical infrastructure in Israel and Egypt, relying on custom malware, improved tactics, and a predictable playbook