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ESET continues to warn users of fraudulent e-mail messages that seek to extort money, especially from people watching online pornographic videos. The attacker in the email claims they have hacked the intended victim's device and has recorded the person while watching pornographic content. The email also asserts that the video has not only captured the user's behavior in front of the webcam, but also which videos were played. "In order to conceal the compromising materials, th

Among the increased number of malicious JavaScript email attachments observed in January 2019, ESET researchers have spotted a large wave of ransomware-spreading spam targeting Russian users January 2019 has seen a dramatic uptick in detections of malicious JavaScript email attachments, an attack vector that mostly lay dormant throughout 2018. Among the “New Year edition” of malicious spam campaigns relying on this vector, we have detected a new wave of Russian-language spam

UPDATE (27 November 2018): Even after Black Friday peak, Emotet operators are keeping up the heat. During the large spike seen on Black Friday, black-hats behind Emotet added a new payload, namely the Gootkit banking malware. On Cyber Monday, the attackers doubled down on the online shoppers in the US, Canada, Germany and Mexico, by launching another massive campaign, with detections in the hundreds of thousands. Similar to previous spikes, Emotet is using spam campaigns as t

How dangerous can spam emails really be? Mark James, ESET IT Security Specialist, explains that without good anti-spam software you’re leaving yourself vulnerable to insidious emails. If you have an email account you have almost certainly encountered spam. Some can be fairly innocuous adverts or offers but others hide much more sinister motives. The level of sophistication also varies wildly from virtually blank emails, perhaps containing only a link or attachment, to highly

ESET Mail Security outperformed all competing products in the latest test of anti-spam solutions by Virus Bulletin, an independent anti-malware testing organization. Virus Bulletin publishes its latest VBSpam comparative review, a real-life test of anti-spam solutions. ESET “achieved a final score of 99.995 – once again better than that of any other product. Clearly ESET is deserving of another VBSpam+ award,“ writes Virus Bulletin in its test report. ESET Mail Security for