What Cyber Defenders Really Think About AI Risk

Learn how Trend Micro's 2025 Trend Micro Defenders Survey Report highlights current AI-related cybersecurity priorities and where security professionals use AI to their advantage...

About Remote Code Execution – Windows LNK File (CVE-2025-9491) vulnerability

About Remote Code Execution - Windows LNK File CVE-2025-9491 vulnerability. A vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows shortcut .LNK handling mechanism allows malicious command-line arguments to be hidden in the Target field using whitespace characters, making them invisible to standard tools...

New Agenda Ransomware Variant, Written in Rust, Aiming at Critical Infrastructure

A Rust variant of a ransomware strain known as Agenda has been observed in the wild, making it the latest malware to adopt the cross-platform programming language after BlackCat, Hive, Luna, and RansomExx. Agenda, attributed to an operator named Qilin, is a ransomware-as-a-service RaaS group that...

New Stealthy Shikitega Malware Targeting Linux Systems and IoT Devices

A new piece of stealthy Linux malware called Shikitega has been uncovered adopting a multi-stage infection chain to compromise endpoints and IoT devices and deposit additional payloads. "An attacker can gain full control of the system, in addition to the cryptocurrency miner that will be executed...

This Week in Security News - March 18, 2022

Global Cyberattacks: Navigating New Frontiers: Trend Micro 2021 Annual Cybersecurity Report, and US Has 'Significant' Cyber Vulnerabilities, But A Sweeping Russian Cyberattack Is Unlikely...

Parlez-vous Machine?

Have you ever heard of the MQTT or CoAP protocols? No? Well the device on your wrist, and so many devices around you, could be using them right now. MQTT and CoAP are machine-to-machine or M2M protocols. With the rise of the internet of things IoT and operational technology OT, there’s increased...

Can YOU spot the fake?

As we predicted in 2016, cyberpropaganda is a major growth area for cybercriminals. Per that prediction, “The rise in the Internet penetration has opened the opportunity for invested parties to use the Internet as a free-for-all tool to influence public opinion to go one way or another.” Today, w...