The pro-Chinese APT group focuses its cyberespionage activities on Latin American government organizations. Since August 2025, it has employed SparroWocky, a new backdoor developed in C++ that directly incorporates code from open source projects. ESET Research, as part of its FamousSparrow monitoring activities, has detected SparroWocky, a new malware developed by the cyberespionage group linked

The ESET PRIVATE Scanning Solutions suite is available in the AWS Marketplace, allowing AWS customers to simplify the purchase and management of solutions directly from their account. ESET, a global leader in the cybersecurity industry, announces that the ESET PRIVATE Scanning Solutions suite is available in the AWS Marketplace. Customers increasingly expect purchasing options

ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, and EVC Group have entered into a strategic collaboration aimed at boosting cyber and energy resilience in Europe, at a time when battery energy storage systems are becoming fundamental in modern energy infrastructures. The importance of these systems for the stability of electrical systems

ESET Research has published the Threat Report for the first half of 2026, containing data from December 2025 to May 2026. The report highlights how ClickFix, a social engineering technique, has evolved with AI pages, browser extensions and cloud authentication scenarios. Quishing reaches record levels, while almost 900,000 skills have been analysed

The operation aimed to seize or render inoperative all known C&C servers of Amadey and Stealc, directly compromising the infrastructure relied upon by affiliates of both MaaS platforms. ESET Research provided technical analysis, statistics, lists of known C&C servers, encryption keys, campaign identifiers and other details. ESET Research provides in

ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, presented its 2025 results, highlighting sustained growth, solid profitability and continued progress in innovation and global expansion. ESET Group recorded revenues of €733 million, an increase of 6% year-on-year (8% at

The Gentlemen Group develops, maintains and provides to affiliates a proprietary EDR-killers suite called 'GentleKiller', with at least eight variants based on vulnerable or malicious drivers and integrated with third-party tools (HexKiller, ThrottleBlood and HavocKiller). The unified avoidance strategy reinforces impersonation and protection, while victimology shows a non-centered global distribution

ESET has discovered two new Windows variants of the SprySOCKS backdoor attributed to the FishMonger group. Active between 2023 and 2024 against government entities in Honduras, Taiwan, Thailand and Pakistan, they support communications via TCP, UDP and WebSocket and implement over 30 commands. The WIN_DRV variant employs a kernel driver to hide a TCP backdoor e

ESET, the global European cybersecurity market leader, has been recognized as a “Challenger” in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection¹ for the third consecutive year, thanks to its ESET PROTECT product range. The company has achieved this recognition for 16 consecutive years and has been named “Challenger” 7 times in the last few