My new book, TRACERS IN THE DARK, is out today. I've been writing it since 2020, but it draws on 11 years of reporting, since I published the first print magazine article on Bitcoin in 2011.

The book chronicles how the discovery that it was possible to trace cryptocurrency that was once considered untraceable upended an entire digital underworld. It's the most epic true crime/detective story I've ever come across as a reporter.

I hope you'll read it. https://www.amazon.com/Tracers-Dark-Global-Crime-Cryptocurrency/dp/0385548095/

This is something a little different from what @ESET has previously done: The release of our first publicly-shared #APT Activity Report, and covers May through August (aka second trimester) of 2022. ESET has been providing threat intelligence reports to organizations for a while, but always as a private service. Sharing this type of information publicly is a way of increasing awareness about the types of nation-state/state-sponsored attacks ESET is identifying through its telemetry.

This report covers attacks by the People's Republic of China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and the Russian Federation. Victims are located in Argentina, Germany, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Ukraine, the United States and Uzbekistan. In case you are wondering about Iran being both an attacker and a victim, consider that some APTs may be deployed domestically against a country's own citizenry.

blog: https://www.welivesecurity.com/2022/11/14/eset-apt-activity-report-t2-2022/
PDF: https://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/eset_apt_activity_report_t22022.pdf