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ESET researchers, analysts and software engineers
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Research & Development centers worldwide
Research is at the heart of ESET and its technology and has been from the very beginning. It all started with a discovery when, in 1987, ESET co-founders Miroslav Trnka and Peter Paško discovered one of the first viruses in the world, named Vienna.
Through the years, ESET and its researchers have been credited with many discoveries and have scored accolades for many of their research works. From recent years, in 2018, ESET discovered LoJax –
the first UEFI rootkit found in the wild, deployed by the infamous Sednit APT group.
Our researchers regularly present at industry conferences such as RSA, Black Hat, Virus Bulletin and CARO just to name a few. They also devote their time to educate future researchers and security experts at universities.
Most notable ESET Threat Research
February 2020
The KrØØk vulnerability
ESET researchers uncovered a previously unknown security flaw allowing an adversary to decrypt some wireless network packets transmitted by vulnerable devices.
June 2020
Operation In(ter)ception
ESET researchers uncovered targeted attacks against high-profile aerospace and military companies in Europe and the Middle East.
October 2020
TrickBot disruption
ESET has collaborated in a Microsoft-led effort to disrupt the TrickBot botnet, providing technical analysis, statistical information, and known command and control server domain names and IPs.
October 2018
GreyEnergy
Following long-term tracking of the infamous BlackEnergy group targeting critical infrastructure, ESET research discovered its successor: the GreyEnergy group.
Most notable ESET Threat Research
October 2019
Operation Ghost
ESET researchers uncovered new activity of the infamous espionage group, the Dukes, including three new malware families.
October 2019
Winnti Group arsenal
As part of their extensive tracking of the Winnti Group, ESET researchers revealed updates to the group’s malware arsenal and campaigns.
October 2019
Attor espionage platform
ESET researchers discovered a previously unreported cyberespionage platform used in targeted attacks against diplomatic missions and governmental institutions, and privacy-concerned users.
November 2018
3ve disruption
ESET Research contributed to international law enforcement operation against 3ve, a major online ad fraud operation.
Software vulnerabilities
While ESET Research primarily focuses on malware, some investigations lead to discovering software vulnerabilities.
While respecting legitimate business interests of vendors of hardware, software, and services, our aim is to protect the broad community of users of internet/IT-related products and/or services.
If we believe we have discovered a vulnerability in a third-party product or service, we adhere to principles of responsible disclosure. Along with that, we do our best to reach out to the vendor to inform them about our findings. However, we reserve the option of disclosing the discovery to a trusted third party, such as a national CSIRT.
Research & development centers
- Bratislava, Košice and Žilina, Slovakia
- Prague, Brno and Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic
- Krakow, Poland
- Montreal, Canada
- San Diego, United States
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Singapore
- Iasi, Romania
- Taunton, United Kingdom