This month in security with Tony Anscombe – June 2026 edition
Three-day patching deadlines, exposed fuel-tank systems, scams costing billions of dollars, and social media bans for children all gave Tony plenty to unpack...
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SMB cyber readiness: the road to resilience starts here
Your business may be small, but its attack surface is anything but. Readiness is the first step to resilience.
Gamaredon in 2025: Leveraging tunnels, workers, dead drops, and new alliances
ESET Research analyzes Gamaredon’s new toolset and the group’s growing reliance on legitimate online services to hide its C&C infrastructure and exfiltrate s...
Protecting legacy OT systems against modern cyberthreats
Many manufacturing plants depend on OT systems that stay in service for many years. That long run can hide significant cybersecurity risks.
FishMonger’s arsenal upgraded: SprySOCKS for Windows
ESET researchers have discovered SprySOCKS for Windows, FishMonger’s backdoor weaponizing a kernel driver for advanced stealthiness
Cybercriminals: the 'auditors' you never hired
Every organisation gets audited. The question is who does the auditing.
Lessons for life: Why children’s data is a long-term identity risk
Your child’s first data breach may happen before they’ve even opened a bank account. Here’s how to keep their digital life safe.
This month in security with Tony Anscombe – May 2026 edition
In this roundup, Tony looks at attacks against Polish water treatment facilities, how AI-directed attacks failed in Mexico, and what Google believes is the f...
The quest for greater tech independence
A complete decoupling from US technology is neither realistic nor necessary, but the changing environment does require nations and companies to reassess thei...
Eyes wide open: How to mitigate the security and privacy risks of smart glasses
Smart glasses allow anyone to track and record the world around them. That could put your data and the privacy of those nearby at risk.
Fake call logs, real payments: How CallPhantom tricks Android users
ESET researchers uncovered fraudulent apps on Google Play that claim to provide the call history “for any number” and had been downloaded more than seven mil...
Fixing the password problem is as easy as 123456
How come it’s still possible to ‘secure’ an online account with a six-digit string?