Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET has uncovered a new dangerous ransomware strain dubbed "HybridPetya" that can bypass ...

Although it hasn't been seen in the wild yet A new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya was able to exploit a patched ...

ESET Research has discovered new ransomware samples, which it has named HybridPetya, resembling the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware. They were uploaded to VirusTotal in February 2025. HybridPetya ...

ESET says PromptLock runs gpt-oss:20b locally on an infected device to help it generate malicious code using hardcoded text prompts, though it might be a proof of concept.

“After being deployed on selected targets, it searches the drives of compromised systems for interesting files and exfiltrates them to Google Drive. One unusual capability found in prior versions of ...

UEFI secure boot was designed to block malicious code from sneaking into your PC's BIOS boot-up process. However, a newly ...

Researchers from cybersecurity company ESET have detected a new ransomware called HybridPetya, which is similar to the ...

Cybersecurity vendor ESET flagged the “PromptLock” ransomware by uncovering ... The orchestrator, which can operate from a malicious file, “delegates planning, decision-making, and payload generation ...

While ESET considers PromptLock a proof of concept, the threat it represents is very real. Dubai, UAE - 29th August 2025: ESET researchers have uncovered a new type of ransomware that leverages ...

In July 2024, ESET Research noticed suspicious activity on the system of a trade group in the United States that operates in the financial sector. While helping the affected entity remediate the ...