Notorious spy tool taken down in global operation

IM-RAT, which could be had for as little as US$25, was bought by nearly 15,000 people

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5 personal (and cheap) data privacy tools that scale for business

Smart selections when starting small can ease the pain as you scale up your company’s privacy infrastructure

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Week in security with Tony Anscombe

ESET researchers detail how the operators of the Stantinko botnet have expanded their toolset with a new means of profiting from computers under their control

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Smartwatch exposes locations and other data on thousands of children

A device that is supposed to help parents keep track of their children and give them a peace of mind can be turned into a surveillance device

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5 scams to watch out for this shopping season

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner and scammers are gearing up to flood you with bogus offers

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Cryptocurrency exchange loses US$50 million in apparent hack

UPbit has announced that, as a precaution, all transactions will remain suspended for at least two weeks

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Stantinko botnet adds cryptomining to its pool of criminal activities

ESET researchers have discovered that the criminals behind the Stantinko botnet are distributing a cryptomining module to the computers they control

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CyberwarCon – the future of nation‑state nastiness

How the field of play has changed and why endpoint protection often comes down to doing the basics, even in the face of increasingly complex threats

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Week in security with Tony Anscombe

ESET researchers publish their findings on Mispadu, a banking trojan targeting Brazil and Mexico, and on DePriMon, a downloader with a unique installation technique

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Should cybersecurity be taught in schools?

Experts weigh in on whether schools should teach kids the skills they need to safely reap the benefits of the online world

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