ESET Research’s ongoing monitoring of FamousSparrow discovered that the China-aligned APT group had developed a new backdoor, SparroWocky.

ESET researchers discovered 11 old, Microsoft-signed, UEFI applications that allow bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on the majority of UEFI-based systems.

ESET Research has released its H1 2026 Threat Report with statistics from December 2025 through May 2026.

Throughout 2025, the Russia-aligned Gamaredon threat group exclusively targeted governmental and military institutions in Ukraine.

The disruption operation aimed to seize or render inoperative all known Amadey and Stealc C&C servers, directly disrupting the infrastructure relied upon by both MaaS offerings’ affiliates.

Gentlemen operators develop and maintain an EDR-killer suite provided directly to affiliates.