Behavior monitoring combined with machine learning spoils a massive Dofoil coin mining campaign

Update: Further analysis of this campaign points to a poisoned update for a peer-to-peer P2P application. For more information, read Poisoned peer-to-peer app kicked off Dofoil coin miner outbreak. Just before noon on March 6 PST, Windows Defender Antivirus blocked more than 80,000 instances of...

February 15, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Ninja Turtles” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! February 15, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: JASK Announces Technolo...

How artificial intelligence stopped an Emotet outbreak

At 12:46 a.m. local time on February 3, a Windows 7 Pro customer in North Carolina became the first would-be victim of a new malware attack campaign for Trojan:Win32/Emotet. In the next 30 minutes, the campaign tried to attack over a thousand potential victims, all of whom were instantly and...

This Week in Security News: Botnets and Breaches

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, North Korean hackers overtook Adobe, Trend Micro Safety Solutions discovered new a botnet, and the threat of third-party cyber breaches made...

Examining & Evaluating Security Before a “Pressure Event” is Critical…Especially on a Hot Summer Day

There are countless parallels between cyber and physical security. I often use physical security to explain cyber to the uninitiated. The thick walls, soundproofed vents, locks and codes and even the key on the door to Robert Hanssen’s SCIF are mirrored by the malware detectors, firewalls next-ge...

IGF proves the value of bottom-up, multi-stakeholder model in cyberspace policy-making

In December, the Internet Governance Forum IGF brought the world together to talk about the internet. I tend to take a definite interest in cybersecurity, but there were many more important topics discussed. They ranged from diversity in the technology sector through to philosophy in the digital...

IGF proves the value of bottom-up, multi-stakeholder model in cyberspace policy-making

In December, the Internet Governance Forum IGF brought the world together to talk about the internet. I tend to take a definite interest in cybersecurity, but there were many more important topics discussed. They ranged from diversity in the technology sector through to philosophy in the digital...

January 26, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Friday” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 26, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: New infosec products of...

January 16, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NASA” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 16, 2018 - Headlines BlackBerry launches cybersecurity software for...

Apple iPhone X Face ID Fooled by a Mask

Apple’s Face ID technology, the centerpiece biometric authentication mechanism for the iPhone X, has been cracked a little more than a week after it was introduced to the public. Researchers from Vietnamese security company Bkav demonstrated that they could fool the technology to unlock the phone...

This Week in Security News

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. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Friday Squid Blogging: Steel Mesh Giant Squid Used as Artificial Reef

Researchers in the British Virgin Islands have sunk a giant squid made out of steel mesh to serve as an artificial reef. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Monitor More, Worry Less. Outpace Threats With Machine Learning.

In the past two years, enterprises have created more data than has been created in the entire history of humankind. At scale, securing this amount of data requires a re-think of how we grant and revoke access to sensitive files and, more importantly, how we identify and track the inevitable acces...

Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction: Understanding the “Magic” Behind Machine Learning

These days we hear about machine learning and artificial intelligence AI in all aspects of life. We see machines that learn and imitate the human brain in order to automate human processes. There are autonomous cars that learn the road conditions to drive, personal assistants we can converse with...

Security for a Rapidly Changing World: Why XGen™ is Our Formula for Success

Right now, we’re living through a period of almost unprecedented technological change. It can be easy sometimes to get caught up in the excitement of this change and miss the bigger picture; the wider themes that tie our past to our future. That’s why at Trend Micro we’re proud to have been able ...

Dan Geer: Cybersecurity, Humanity's Future "Conjoined"

Given the intertwinement of technology with communication, politics, economies and overall human progress, it seems to go hand-in-hand that cybersecurity must be elevated in parallel. Dan Geer, considered atop the food chain of security thinkers, said during last week’s Source Boston conference...

5 Red Flags That Tell You Vendors Are Lying About AI

This is the original version of this article: The term Artificial Intelligence has become a buzzword that people use in sales pitches all the time. You will hear about it in the latest ad copy for new gadgets and programs. It also happens to be the most important tool in the cyber security field...

Google’s lessons in security: bring together security engineering and incident response

Last week during Google Next conference, we have heard an interesting talk where a google security PM, Andy Chang, explained what Google has learned from preventing, detecting and responding to cyber attacks over the years. Not surprisingly, Google is paying a lot of attention to securing the...

Google’s lessons in security: bring together security engineering and incident response

Last week during Google Next conference, we have heard an interesting talk where a google security PM, Andy Chang, explained what Google has learned from preventing, detecting and responding to cyber attacks over the years. Not surprisingly, Google is paying a lot of attention to securing the...

Cryptographers Dismiss AI, Quantum Computing Threats

SAN FRANCISCO—Cryptographers said at the RSA Conference Tuesday they’re skeptical that advances in quantum computing and artificial intelligence will profoundly transform computer security. “I’m skeptical there will be much of an impact,” Ron Rivest, a MIT professor and inventor of several...