ESET Research Threat Reports A view of the H1 2026 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts. 08 Jul 2026 • , 2 min. read The first half of… Read More "ESET Threat Report H1 2026"
AI helped drive a 300% increase in bot traffic last year, alongside a range of other enterprise threats, a new report from Akamai has revealed. The security vendor’s latest State of the Internet report, published on September 22, is based… Read More "AI Drives Surge in Bot and API Threats"
European lawmakers are calling for an investigation into Meta after the mass suspension of accounts posting about anti-government protests in Albania, in what observers believe is a coordinated brigading attack. “What happened in Albania is tantamount to censorship,” said MEP… Read More "Meta’s Copyright System Is Being Weaponized Against Albanian Protesters"
ESET researchers identified 11 old and forgotten UEFI shim bootloaders at versions 0.9 and below that can be used to bypass UEFI Secure Boot on any UEFI-based machine that trusts Microsoft’s Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011 third-party UEFI certificate authority… Read More "Forgotten UEFI shims undermining Secure Boot"
Nearly half of network segments with OT or medical devices (IoMT) also contain IT and IoT, broadening the attack surface and raising the risk of lateral movement, according to Forescout. The security vendor analyzed 47,700 real-world network segments across organizations… Read More "Network Segmentation Failures Expand the Corporate Attack Surface"
Before two of its alleged members were arrested and charged in Australia last month, the hacker group known as TeamPCP carried out a hacking spree unlike any other in history. It tainted hundreds of open-source programs with its malware, stole… Read More "An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply-Chain Hacking Gang"
The screenshot may look convincing, but it doesn’t necessarily prove that the payment, booking or conversation is genuine 30 Jul 2026 • , 6 min. read Someone sends you a screenshot showing that a payment has gone through. It carries… Read More "Beyond the screenshot: Why you should verify what you see"
Most organizations have not rehearsed how they would handle an AI-related security incident, even as their security teams put AI to wider use, according to new research. ISACA’s 2026 State of Cyber report found that 71% of organizations have not run any… Read More "AI Incident Response Readiness Lags Behind AI Adoption, ISACA Finds"
The result of that nascent competition to create less surveillance-prone AI is a growing crowd of tools, often ones that offer confusing assurances for users as they seek to adopt an increasingly unavoidable technology without losing control of their secrets.… Read More "How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact"
AI has moved quickly into the daily work of small and mid-size businesses (SMBs). Many have moved past chatbots and begun assigning work to AI agents in the hope of gaining an edge on their similarly resource-strapped competitors and levelling… Read More "The SMB cybersecurity squeeze: AI agents at work, old attacks in overdrive"
