The University of California (UC), Berkeley, has revealed that it was the victim of a major cyberattack. It explained that the incident, which took place in December 2015, has affected close to 80,000 current and former members of staff and students. The victims have been notified with notice letters, which includes details about free credit […]

For young people, the Internet can be a vital source of information, recreation, escape and more, but without the right guidance it can also be unsafe. Online games particularly make prime targets for cybercriminals, and there are also concerns that gaming networks can lead players astray, or even act as a criminal breeding ground. Whatever the reasons might […]

ESET researchers have found 343 malicious porn clicker trojans, which ESET detects as Android/Clicker, on Google Play over the last seven months – and their numbers keep rising. In one of the largest malware campaigns on the Google Play Store yet, criminals continue to upload further variants of these malicious apps to the official app store […]

Malicious porn clickers are mostly fake versions of popular games with very similar names and icons to legitimate applications. For instance, there were more than 30 bogus Subway Surfers and more than 60 fake GTA applications. These apps have nothing in common with the official Subway Surfers or GTA games. The trojans were mostly devoid […]

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Most parents think carefully about when to give their children their first set of house keys, or let them go out to play with no adult supervision. Yet in our digitalized world, the same caution should be exercised in the virtual world, such as on social networks or when giving children their first smart gadgets. […]

Nowadays, the internet and technology have become so important for business, travel and many other everyday tasks that they practically surround us all the time. This is true for the younger generation as well, including even the smallest children, but online surveys by ESET show that a majority of parents in Russia, the United Kingdom, […]

I hope you weren’t one of the hundreds of people who downloaded a compromised version of the Linux Mint operating system on Saturday. Because if you were, it’s possible that you’re not just running one of the more user-friendly flavours of Linux on your computer but also playing host to a Linux ELF trojan called […]

Welcome to this week’s security review, which includes a detailed report from ESET on the state of information security in companies in the EMEA region, helpful advice on support scams and the rise of Android ransomware. The state of information security in companies in the EMEA region For this extensive report, ESET spoke to 1,700 […]