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Sep 9, 2026
AinsleyHOST
Cheating implies intent to deceive for its own sake, and that's probably not what happened here.
AinsleyHOST
But I don't think it lets the agents off the hook either, because ESET's own post-mortem on this is pretty damning about where the line actually was.
AinsleyHOST
The boundaries and acceptable methods were not fully established.
AinsleyHOST
Translation, the humans running this never said don't compromise the grading infrastructure.
Ryan NaraineHOST
Gasporsky was ahead of the curve on things.
Ryan NaraineHOST
ESET and Avast and these guys were always kind of like...
Ryan NaraineHOST
It seemed to me in front of like the Semantics and the McAfee at getting technological things built.
Ryan NaraineHOST
Are you seeing that emerging again out of Europe? Are you seeing EDR innovation or hearing about EDR innovation in your TLP Red conferences that give you a sense of confidence that, yeah, the defense will eventually catch up? We are kind of investing in the right things.
speaker_1HOST
This is one of the most insidious architectural developments we have tracked this year.
speaker_1HOST
Researchers at ESET recently uncovered a technique they have dubbed guard breaker.
speaker_0HOST
Right.
speaker_0HOST
ESET observed this technique deployed by a threat actor tracked as UAC 0099.
speaker_1HOST
Yes.
speaker_0HOST
This is a Russia aligned group with a documented history of targeting critical infrastructure, specifically the transportation and energy sectors in Ukraine.
speaker_1HOST
It's brilliant in an evil sort of way.
speaker_0HOST
They are using this guard breaker technique.
Jerry BellHOST
And five, they bought from people who built them.
Jerry BellHOST
10, ESET found Russian operators writing comments into a VBS downloader designed to trip an AI assistant's safety filters.
Jerry BellHOST
So AI-assisted analysis stops before it reaches the payload.
Jerry BellHOST
When a tool refuses a sample, send it to a human or a sandbox and alert on the refusal.
Johannes UllrichHOST
Well, uh, this is exactly what this particular malware does.
Johannes UllrichHOST
Also interesting that it side loads itself into the antivirus product ESET.
Johannes UllrichHOST
And, uh, well, then it starts listening on the network for packets that m-match very specific characteristics.
Johannes UllrichHOST
It actually doesn't appear to matter what protocol, what port, but then the payload has to match specific checksum conditions.
speaker_0HOST
It is specifically engineered to be sideloaded into a process called eragent.xe.
speaker_1HOST
Which is the legitimate executable for the ESET management agent.
speaker_1HOST
That is a widely used enterprise antivirus and security platform.
speaker_0HOST
Okay, so to understand why this is so dangerous, can you explain how Windows handles DLL search order?
speaker_1HOST
Sure.
speaker_1HOST
So when an executable like the ESET agent launches, it needs to load various external libraries into memory to function, right? It
speaker_0HOST
needs its dependencies.
speaker_1HOST
Exactly.
Jerry BellHOST
Watch for unexpected Deno execution and encoded script launches on your developer and server hosts.
Jerry BellHOST
Nine, a backdoor called Sleepwalker poses as DPAPI.dll, sideloads into the ESET management agent and sits completely inert with no outbound traffic until a crafted packet wakes it up.
Jerry BellHOST
Your connection watching tooling probably won't catch it, so hunt for a rogue DPAPI.dll sitting next to the agent executable.
Jerry BellHOST
10.
Tim WyattHOST
And it's not just me saying it.
Tim WyattHOST
Here's a quote from, uh, Jake Moore, who is a global cybersecurity advisor at ESET who spoke to the BBC, and he said, "The announcement, um, could have a competitive dimension.
Tim WyattHOST
It does pose the question that OpenAI are potentially chasing the marketing dream of Anthropic of late." So Anthropic has had this growing attention for one of its models called Mythos, which they have been, uh, burnishing the myth of, if you pardon the pun, and saying about how incredibly powerful it is.
Tim WyattHOST
It's so good at, at cybersecurity.
Robert DuttHOST
For Canadian partners, the convergence of distribution and managed service is a signal that the traditional boundaries between the partner types are eroding faster than you might expect and that distributors are increasingly willing to touch the end customer directly.
Robert DuttHOST
ESET Canada yesterday announced the winners of its 2026 Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship, naming Arthur Jelinah, Sidkanu Tamori, and Salaxa Jivakumar as the three Canadian recipients.
Robert DuttHOST
According to ESET, the program has awarded more than fifty thousand dollars to fourteen women in Canada since expanding north in 2021, with this year's awards totaling fifteen thousand dollars across three scholarships.
Robert DuttHOST
Bob Bonneau, country manager at ESET Canada, said the recipients demonstrated an impressive combination of skill, leadership, and genuine desire to make a difference in the industry.
Robert DuttHOST
The winners will be recognized at a celebration at ESET's Markham headquarters on Thursday, continuing a commitment that ESET says is one of its earliest initiatives of its kind in the cybersecurity industry.
Robert DuttHOST
The three recipients come from the Greater Toronto Area, Montreal, and Ottawa, reflecting a geographic spread that ESET says mirrors the growth of cybersecurity hubs across the country.
Robert DuttHOST
For the Canadian channel, the scholarship underscores the ongoing need to build a more diverse cybersecurity talent pipeline as demand continues to outpace supply here and abroad.
Robert DuttHOST
And it highlights a concrete way that vendors can contribute to that pipeline beyond short-term hiring initiatives.
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