5 common password mistakes you should avoid

Password recycling or using easy-to-guess passwords are just two common mistakes you may be making when protecting your digital accounts

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Almost a million WordPress websites targeted in massive campaign

An unknown threat actor is exploiting vulnerabilities in plugins for which patches have been available for months, or even years

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Professional data leakage: How did that security vendor get my personal data?

…and why are they selling it to other security vendors and product testers?

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Ghost blogging platform servers hacked to mine cryptocurrency

Ghost wasn’t the only victim of break-ins over the weekend that exploited critical holes in infrastructure automation software for which patches were available

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Week in security with Tony Anscombe

ESET’s new Threat Report is out – Another deep dive into Latin American banking trojans – More coronavirus-themed scams

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It’s no time to let your guard down as coronavirus fraud remains a threat

Scammers rehash old campaigns, create credit card-stealing websites and repurpose information channels to milk the COVID-19 crisis for all it’s worth

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Sextortion scammers still shilling with stolen passwords

The email includes the potential victim’s password as evidence of a hack, but there is more than meets the eye

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ESET Threat Report

A view of the Q1 2020 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts

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Grandoreiro: How engorged can an EXE get?

Another in our occasional series demystifying Latin American banking trojans

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Microsoft Teams flaw could let attackers hijack accounts

Microsoft plugs a security hole that could have enabled attackers to weaponize a GIF in order to hijack Teams accounts and steal data

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