APTs are highly targeted attacks in which the attacker focuses on a specific organization or group, develops customized tools ...

ESET has released its latest advanced persistent threat (APT) report, covering the period from April through September 2025. China-aligned APT groups continued to advance Beijing’s geopolitical ...

Researchers link Silver Dragon APT to APT41 after attacks on government entities using Cobalt Strike, DNS tunneling, and ...

An emerging ransomware actor is using sophisticated techniques in the style of an advanced persistent threat group (APT) to target organizations with customized ransom demands, posing a significant ...

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The end of 2024 and the start of 2025 were marked by the strengthened intensity of malicious cyber activity by Russian-aligned hacking groups, according to ESET. In its APT Activity Report Q4 2024–Q1 ...

ESET APT Activity Report Q4 2024–Q1 2025 summarizes notable activities of selected advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that were documented by ESET researchers from October 2024 until the end of ...

One of North Korea's formidable advanced persistent threat (APT) groups is targeting Android users in South Korea with a remote reset attack that exploits a feature in Google aimed at helping users ...

Among the newly identified actors, APT 36, believed to be operating out of Pakistan, has reportedly masked its IP address to appear as if located in Bulgaria. The group is allegedly creating forged ...

These long-term attacks pose significant risk to banks, insurers and capital markets firms already targeted by ransomware and fraud.