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Has your inbox recently been deluged with unwanted and even outright malicious messages? Here are 10 possible reasons – and how to stem the tide. For all our modern obsession with social media and messaging apps, email remains a daily staple for many of us. Modern email providers are pretty good at filtering out unsolicited messages known as spam, their checks don’t necessarily work all the time. Much like with unwanted phone calls , sometimes it can feel like the internet go

As children turn to AI chatbots for answers, advice, and companionship, questions emerge about their safety, privacy, and emotional development AI chatbots have become a big part of all of our lives since they burst onto the scene more than three years ago. ChatGPT, for example, says  it has around 700 million weekly active users, many of whom are “young people.” A UK study from July 2025 found that nearly two-thirds (64%) of children use such tools. A similar share of paren

Developments around renewable energy are moving fast. How can the sector ensure that cybersecurity keeps up in face of destructive attacks? he world is going electric. Transportation, heating & cooling, and energy distribution are increasingly being supplied via fossil-fuel-free methods. Regulations are being introduced in parallel, with mandates in some regions seeking a reduction of emissions by as much as 55% by 2030 .  Across the world, businesses of all sizes are driving

Once again, data shows an uncomfortable truth: the habit of choosing eminently hackable passwords is alive and well ‘123456’ continues to reign supreme as the most commonly-used password among people across the world, according to two reports, from NordPass  and Comparitech , respectively. A full 25 percent of the top 1,000 most-used passwords are made up of nothing but numerals. In addition, ‘123456’ appealed to people of various age cohorts, as it was the most-favored optio

The business social networking site is a vast, publicly accessible database of corporate information. Don’t believe everyone on the site is who they say they are. In November, Britain’s Security Service began notifying members of parliament (MPs) and their staff of an audacious foreign intelligence-gathering scheme. It claimed two profiles on LinkedIn were approaching individuals working in British politics in order to solicit “insider insights”. The revelations from MI5 pre

The latest ESET research sheds light on an advanced phishing technique that SOCs might find hard to catch. We’ve written about spearphishing before, highlighting ESET Research’s telemetry finds concerning this insidious, highly personalized attack type.  However, the story isn’t over. In their latest findings, researchers have gone on to detail a series of successful phishing attempts by the Iran-aligned MuddyWater APT group, using a very specific attack technique — internal

Have you ever received a package you never ordered? It could be a warning sign that your data has been compromised, with more fraud to follow. Global e-commerce sales are predicted to exceed $6.4 trillion in 2025. And a large share of these will come via marketplaces. But while they ostensibly offer convenience and safety for consumers and expanded reach for businesses, there is a darker side to the industry. In 2024, Amazon alone proactively blocked  over 275 million suspec

A comprehensive analysis and assessment of a critical severity vulnerability with low likelihood of mass exploitation ESET researchers examined CVE‑2025‑50165, a serious Windows vulnerability described to grant remote code execution by merely opening a specially crafted JPG file – one of the most widely used image formats. The flaw, found and documented by Zscaler ThreatLabz, piqued our interest, as Microsoft assessed its severity as critical but deemed its exploitability as

Aviation and aerospace can’t fly under cyber threat actors’ radars anymore. Man has always been keen on pushing past preconceived limits. The Wright brothers  made the skies the limit … until Neil Armstrong took a giant leap for mankind by stepping onto the surface of the moon. None of these advances would have been possible without the ingenuity of tinkerers, scientists, and engineers, or the fearlessness of test pilots. In recent years, software developers have become a new

If you don’t look inside your environment, you can’t know its true state – and attackers count on that I recently had, what I thought, was a unique brainwave. (Spoiler alert: it wasn’t, but please read on!) As a marketing leader at ESET UK, part of my role is to communicate how our powerful and comprehensive solutions can be implemented to protect organisations, in a way that helps clarify the case for upgrading to higher levels of cybersecurity. And that need for clarity is