ESET announce its participation in the pilot phase of the Cyber Intelligence Extension Programme (CIEP), a new initiative launched by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3).Read More…
Global law enforcement recently announced Operation Endgame, a widespread effort to disrupt malware and botnet infrastructure and identify the alleged individuals associated with the activity. In a press release, Europol called it the “largest ever operation against botnets, which play a major role in the deployment of ransomware.”Read More…
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET highlights that recently a global operation successfully takes down the infrastructure of DoubleVPN and seizes all the data of its customersRead More…
PCs still running when Windows 7 reaches end of life on the 14th of January will be significantly more at risk of ransomware, warns Veritas Technologies. According to experts, 26 per cent of PCs are expected to still be running the Microsoft software after support for patches and bug fixesRead More…
Palo Alto Networks and Europol have signed a MoU that expands their collaboration efforts to tackle cybercrime activity and improve security for citizens, businesses and governments across the EU.Read More…
ESET recently announced that it has joined hands with No More Ransom, an international initiative between Europol, the Dutch National Police and major cybersecurity organizations in the fight against ransomware.Read More…
BT announced the appointment of Kevin Brown as managing director of BT Security, where he will be responsible for the company’s physical and cyber security activity around the world. Kevin succeeds Mark Hughes, who is stepping down at the end of this year to take up a new position outside ofRead More…
Security researchers at ESET, in collaboration with Microsoft and law enforcement agencies – the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Interpol, Europol, and other stakeholders in cybersecurity – have today taken down a major botnet operation known as Gamarue. It was detected by ESET as Win32/TrojanDownloader.Wauchos, which has been infecting victimsRead More…
