This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Detects a 10 Percent Rise in Ransomware in 2019 and New Wi-Fi Encryption Vulnerability Affects Over a Billion Devices

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about how Trend Micro detected a 10 percent rise in ransomware attacks in 2019. Also, learn about a new Wi-Fi encryption vulnerability...

Hackers Expand Their Repertoire as Trend Micro Blocks 52 Billion Threats in 2019

Variety is welcome in most walks of life, but not when it comes to the threat landscape. Yet that is unfortunately the reality facing modern cybersecurity professionals. As Trend Micro’s 2019 roundup report reveals, hackers have an unprecedented array of tools, techniques and procedures at their...

In Safe Hands with Trend Micro Home Network Security – Part 3: Testing Its Functions

We continue our four-part series on protecting your home and family. See the links to the previous parts at the end of this blog. As you use more internet-connected devices and smart appliances in your home, it’s of utmost importance to make sure your gadgets are properly protected from malware a...

Trend Micro OfficeScan Directory Traversal (CVE-2019-18187)

A directory traversal vulnerability exists in Trend Micro's OfficeScan. The vulnerability is due to insufficient handling of directory traversal characters in uploaded ZIP archives. A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a request containing a crafted ZIP fil...

Trend Micro Vulnerability Protection DLL Sideloading Vulnerability

Trend Micro Vulnerability Protection is an endpoint vulnerability protection product that provides one step faster and stronger endpoint protection. A DLL side-loading vulnerability exists in Trend Micro Vulnerability Protection 2.0. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker via the produ...

CVE-2019-19694

The Trend Micro Security 2019 15.0.0.1163 and below consumer family of products is vulnerable to a denial of service DoS attack in which a malicious actor could manipulate a key file at a certain time during the system startup process to disable the product's malware protection functions or the...

CVE-2019-14688

Trend Micro has repackaged installers for several Trend Micro products that were found to utilize a version of an install package that had a DLL hijack vulnerability that could be exploited during a new product installation. The vulnerability was found to ONLY be exploitable during an initial...

CVE-2020-8601

Trend Micro Vulnerability Protection 2.0 is affected by a vulnerability that could allow an attack to use the product installer to load other DLL files located in the same directory...

CVE-2020-8601

Trend Micro Vulnerability Protection 2.0 is affected by a vulnerability that could allow an attack to use the product installer to load other DLL files located in the same directory...

CVE-2019-19694

The Trend Micro Security 2019 15.0.0.1163 and below consumer family of products is vulnerable to a denial of service DoS attack in which a malicious actor could manipulate a key file at a certain time during the system startup process to disable the product's malware protection functions or the...

CVE-2019-14688

Trend Micro has repackaged installers for several Trend Micro products that were found to utilize a version of an install package that had a DLL hijack vulnerability that could be exploited during a new product installation. The vulnerability was found to ONLY be exploitable during an initial...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Trend Micro Security 2019 15.0.0.1163 and below consumer family of products is vulnerable to a denial of service DoS attack in which a malicious actor could manipulate a key file at a certain time during the system startup process to disable the product's malware protection functions or the...

Code injection

Trend Micro has repackaged installers for several Trend Micro products that were found to utilize a version of an install package that had a DLL hijack vulnerability that could be exploited during a new product installation. The vulnerability was found to ONLY be exploitable during an initial...

Directory traversal

Trend Micro Vulnerability Protection 2.0 is affected by a vulnerability that could allow an attack to use the product installer to load other DLL files located in the same directory...

CVE-2019-19694

The Trend Micro Security 2019 15.0.0.1163 and below consumer family of products is vulnerable to a denial of service DoS attack in which a malicious actor could manipulate a key file at a certain time during the system startup process to disable the product's malware protection functions or the...

CVE-2020-8601

Trend Micro Vulnerability Protection 2.0 is affected by a vulnerability that could allow an attack to use the product installer to load other DLL files located in the same directory...

CVE-2019-19694

The CVE affects Trend Micro Security 2019 for Windows (15.0.0.1163 and below). A DoS can be triggered by a malicious actor who manipulates a key file at a specific moment during system startup, potentially disabling the product’s malware protection functions or the entire product. Marketed as a l...

CVE-2020-8601

Trend Micro Vulnerability Protection 2.0 is affected by a DLL sideloading issue in the product installer that could load other DLL files located in the same directory. The vulnerability arises during installation, enabling local manipulation of loaded DLLs. Available public references describe Tr...

CVE-2019-14688

Trend Micro has repackaged installers for several Trend Micro products that were found to utilize a version of an install package that had a DLL hijack vulnerability that could be exploited during a new product installation. The vulnerability was found to ONLY be exploitable during an initial...

CVE-2019-14688

This CVE affects Trend Micro installer packages. A DLL hijack vulnerability was present in an installer version used by multiple Trend Micro products and could be exploited only during the initial product installation by an authorized user. The attacker must cause the target to place a malicious ...