Ukrainian vitality supplier focused by Industroyer2 – ESET helps disrupt Zloader botnets – The place do new concepts come from and the way are they unfold?
On this version of Week in safety, Tony appears to be like at these matters:
- How ESET researchers labored carefully with Ukraine’s CERT on remediating and defending in opposition to an incident the place the Sandworm group tried to deploy a brand new model of the notorious Industroyer malware in opposition to an vitality supplier in Ukraine.
- ESET’s work with trade companions on an effort aimed toward disrupting the prolific Zloader botnets. Whereas closely impressed by the Zeus banking trojan, Zloader developed from a banking trojan right into a distributor of a number of malware households, together with numerous ransomware households.
- As a part of the launch of ESET’s new branding with the tagline, ‘Progress. Protected.’, writer Steven Johnson supplied his ideas concerning the roots of innovation, the place new concepts come from and the way they unfold.