ESET Venezuela successfully held its 9th Technology Breakfast with media outlets and journalists specializing in cybersecurity, an essential meeting to analyze digital risks and redefine corporate protection in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The event focused on dismantling…
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Cybersecurity and cryptocurrencies: advances, risks, and lessons learned in 2025
The year 2025 was marked by record losses from attacks and fraud in the cryptocurrency universe. In the first half of the year alone, thefts totaled $2.17 billion, surpassing the total value recorded in 2024, according to Chainalysis.…
Five key actions to take after discovering a cyberattack
The number of data breaches in 2024, investigated by Verizon, increased by 20 percentage points in the total number of incidents compared to the previous year. ESET, a leading company in proactive threat detection, asserts that prior…
How to detect fake job applicants: corporate espionage with malicious informants
In July 2024, cybersecurity provider KnowBe4 began observing suspicious activity related to a new employee who started manipulating and transferring potentially harmful files and attempted to run unauthorized software. It was later…
Cybersecurity myths that can put you at risk: ESET analyzes 5 common ones
October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a global initiative to strengthen safe habits in the digital environment. In the Latin American region, cybersecurity risks are specific. According to the latest ESET Security Report 2025, 1 in…
ESET reports and summarizes 7 shocking real-life cases of scams using deepfakes
Cybercriminals have found that using artificial intelligence allows them to enhance their scams, making their deceptions more realistic and harder to detect. Recently, fake videos have surfaced impersonating internationally renowned…
Investor scams on social media are on the rise with the help of artificial intelligence
Faced with financial doubts and concerns, it's no surprise that people are looking for alternatives to make their money go further. This leads users with little investment experience to become interested and take their first steps. ESET, a…
Credential stuffing: the risk of repeating passwords and how to protect yourself
Credential stuffing is a type of cyberattack in which malicious actors use leaked usernames and passwords to log in to accounts and services other than the one that was leaked. The success of these attacks relies on the habit of reusing the…
ESET Security Day raised awareness about the sophistication of cybercrime
The 14th edition of the ESET Security Day Venezuela event took place on Thursday, June 5th. Representatives from this company (a global leader in cybersecurity) participated, addressing various aspects of the conference's central theme:…
How secure is your iPhone?: ESET analyzes, explains, and makes recommendations
Apple's control over its ecosystem of devices and apps has historically been strict. Additionally, several built-in security features, such as strong encryption and containerization, help prevent data leakage and limit the spread of…
Scams leveraging voice cloning with Artificial Intelligence are on the rise
It's no surprise that Artificial Intelligence has revolutionized the world, and that cybercriminals have taken advantage of all this potential to create highly realistic and sophisticated targeted social engineering attacks. Techniques…
Evasive Panda exfiltrates data from cloud services by stealing session cookies
ESET, a leading proactive threat detection company, has identified a post-compromise toolkit used by Evasive Panda to attack a government entity and a religious organization in Taiwan between 2022 and 2023. This toolkit is capable of…