Tag: ESET
Salt Typhoon turns to Latin America with a new modular backdoor
ESET found the SparroWocky backdoor in government networks across eight Latin American countries as the group shifted 90 percent of…
Russia-aligned group trips AI scanners with nuke prompt
ESET says Russia-aligned UAC-0099 hides a nuclear weapon request in malware comments to stall AI-powered triage.
Sleepwalker backdoor naps in memory until a magic packet wakes it
The Sleepwalker backdoor waits in memory for one magic packet, then runs commands in its own language.
Ghostwriter Group Deploys Geofenced PDFs to Target Ukrainian Government Systems
Ghostwriter uses region restricted PDF files to deliver Cobalt Strike payloads exclusively to Ukrainian government targets, evading global security researchers.