CVE-2021-30724: CVMServer Vulnerability in macOS and iOS

We discovered a vulnerability in macOS, iOS, and iPadOS rooted in the CVMServer. The vulnerability, labeled CVE-2021-30724, can allow threat actors to escalate their privilege if exploited...

It’s Everyone’s Job to Ensure Online Safety at Work

As part of our effort to support National Cyber Security Awareness Month I wanted to provide information on the need for everyone within a business to be aware of their role in keeping the organization safe from cyber attacks. Let’s discuss some of the areas where we see existing organizations...

A Tea Party with a Difference: Trend Micro Supports Arts and Cultural Education in Rural Taiwan

Trend Micro has been at the cutting edge of technology innovation for almost 30 years. During that time, we’ve always had to have a keen eye on what’s coming next — anticipating threats so we can keep our customers protected, whatever comes their way. But we also recognize that in our race for th...

Fixing the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

Two days ago, Graz University of Technology published a paper describing a pair of attacks on common microprocessors. The underlying vulnerability affects Intel, AMD, and ARM processors. All contemporary microprocessors pre-execute instructions. In other words, the vulnerability bypasses address...

Trend Micro Protects VMware on Amazon Web Services

Organizations are taking advantage of changes in computing technology to position themselves for a more agile future. Technology leaders and architects see value beyond the data center with new public cloud models and are keen on adopting hybrid infrastructure approaches to their compute...

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...

Trend Micro Top Again for Breach Detection, Says NSS Labs

In spite of a rapidly evolving landscape, data breaches remain among the most common and damaging cyber-threats facing organizations today. As digital transformation efforts take hold, so the corporate attacks surface grows, offering more opportunities for the bad guys to take aim at highly prize...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 22, 2017

For those of you who follow the National Football League NFL, do you remember Super Bowl 47? I wasn’t exactly thrilled about the teams that played since I’m not a 49ers or Ravens fan. What was interesting about the game is that it was halted for over half an hour in the third quarter because of a...

Why the Open Secure AI Alliance Matters: Open Frontier Models, Open Deployment Flexibility

TrendAI joins Nvidia as an inaugural partner in the Open Secure AI Alliance, advancing open models, harnesses, and research to strengthen cyber defense...

TrendAI Insight: New U.S. National Cyber Strategy

TrendAI reviews the White House National Cyber Strategy, outlining six pillars to strengthen U.S. cybersecurity—from deterrence and regulation to federal modernization, critical infrastructure protection, AI leadership, and workforce development...

Threat Intelligence Sweeping now supports container security telemetry data

Threat Intelligence Sweeping starts to support sweep container security telemetry data. Users can now use the TI tool to identify possible malicious activity in their container-based environments. The trigger events are visible in workbench alert...

ZDI-CAN-25373: Windows Shortcut Exploit Abused as Zero-Day in Widespread APT Campaigns

Trend Zero Day Initiative™ ZDI uncovered both state-sponsored and cybercriminal groups extensively exploiting ZDI-CAN-25373 aka ZDI-25-148, a Windows .lnk file vulnerability that enables hidden command execution...

Rapture, a Ransomware Family With Similarities to Paradise

In March and April 2023, we observed a type of ransomware targeting its victims via a minimalistic approach with tools that leave only a minimal footprint behind. Our findings revealed many of the preparations made by the perpetrators and how quickly they managed to carry out the ransomware attac...

Cinobi Banking Trojan Targets Cryptocurrency Exchange Users via Malvertising

We found a new social engineering-based malvertising campaign targeting Japan that delivered a malicious application. The malicious application abused sideloading vulnerabilities to load and start the Cinobi banking trojan...

Securing the Connected World with Support for The Shadowserver Foundation

If the first few months of 2020 have taught us anything, it’s the importance of collaboration and partnership to tackle a common enemy. This is true of efforts to fight the current pandemic, and it’s also true of the fight against cybercrime. That’s why Trend Micro has, over the years, struck...

NCSA Small Business Webinar Series

Working from home? How do you keep your employees cyber-safe and cyber-secure? How do you protect your reputation, profit, and cash flow when you depend on your IT infrastructure as never before? The National Cyber Security Alliance is hosting a series of webinars for small business owners, and...

This Week in Security News: Ransomware Campaigns and Cryptocurrency Miners

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, learn about three different ransomware campaigns that caused havoc in different public sectors. Also, read how threat actors are infecting...

This Week in Security News: Facebook and Faxploits

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, Facebook removed 652 fake accounts originating from Russia and Iran. Also, Microsoft identified and removed fake internet domains that...

How Do I Make My Windows 10 Computer Run Faster? (Part 1)

We’ve all been there. You get your shiny home PC or laptop back from the store and unboxed and everything is perfect. It runs like a dream: starting up quickly, speeding you through internet searches and web browsing, and applications open in the blink of an eye. But then over the following month...

Summer Vacation Plans? Be Safe When Connecting!

Tips to Protect Yourself While Traveling Summer travel should be a respite from work, when you relax and don’t have to worry about business. And your mobile devices can help make it easier, whether it’s booking a flight or a hotel room, ordering a cab or an Uber driver, browsing websites for your...

How to Fix a Mac That’s Running Slow

Every device sooner or later begins to run slower and slower. Even the Mac, which is a highly-efficient Apple product, starts to slow down and becomes a real pain to use over time. If you are a heavy Mac user this is especially true and you are more likely to experience performance issues. There...

Security Round-up: Five Things We’ve Learned in 2017

The past 12 months have been packed with geopolitical incidents, global malware threats and ubiquitous big-name data breaches. From the CIA Vault7 and NSA Shadow Brokers leaks at the start of the year, to the WannaCry and NotPetya ‘ransomware’ campaigns, and Uber’s shocking revelations just last...

The continuing threat of POS malware

Point-of-sale systems have seen numerous changes in recent years. From the shift to chip-card readers and the inclusion of new technology for contactless mobile payments, POS systems aren't just for swiping cards anymore. At the same time, two important factors haven't changed - the criticality o...

APT34 Deploys Phishing Attack With New Malware

We observed and tracked the advanced persistent threat APT APT34 group with a new malware variant accompanying a phishing attack comparatively similar to the SideTwist backdoor malware. Following the campaign, the group abused a fake license registration form of an African government agency to...

Analyzing the FUD Malware Obfuscation Engine BatCloak

We look into BatCloak engine, its modular integration into modern malware, proliferation mechanisms, and interoperability implications as malicious actors take advantage of its fully undetectable FUD capabilities...

Hijacking Your Bandwidth: How Proxyware Apps Open You Up to Risk

In this investigation, we analyzed several prominent "passive income" applications and found out that there may be security risks upon participating in these programs...

This Week in Security News - January 28th, 2022

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read the third installment of Trend Micro’s Codex series. Also, read about the White House’s latest zero-trust approach to its cybersecurity...

Shift Well-Architecture Left. By Extension, Security Will Follow

A story on how Infrastructure as Code can be your ally on Well-Architecting and securing your Cloud environment By Raphael Bottino, Solutions Architect -- first posted as a medium article Using Infrastructure as CodeIaC for short is the norm in the Cloud. CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, Serverles...

Riding another wave of success for our multi-layered detection and response approach

The corporate endpoint is a constant battle between cybersecurity white hats and criminal attackers. According to one study from the Ponemon Institute, 68% of organizations were victims of an attack on the endpoint in 2019. The risks and costs associated with undetected threats are immeasurable...

A message from our COO regarding Trend Micro’s Customer commitment during the global Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)

The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has affected peoples’ lives across the globe and has quickly swept through and impacted individuals, families, communities, and businesses around the world. At Trend Micro, our number one priority is to ensure that our employees and their families are as safe as...

How to Manage Your Privacy On and Off Facebook

Social media has come a long way in a short space of time. In a little over a decade, it’s grown from being the preserve of a relatively small group of online enthusiasts to one of the defining trends of 21st century life. As the undisputed global leader in this field, Facebook now boasts nearly...

This Week in Security News: Over 2,000 WordPress Accounts Compromised and Facebook to Pay $550M to Settle Class Action Case Over Facial Recognition

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, over two thousand WordPress sites were compromised using a malicious script that redirects visitors to scam websites. Also, read about how...

INTERPOL Collaboration Reduces Cryptojacking by 78%

Cybercriminals are often seen as having the upper hand over the “white hat” community. After all, they’re anonymous, can launch attacks from virtually anywhere in the world, and usually have the element of surprise. But there’s one secret weapon the good guys have: Collaboration. That’s why Trend...

This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Acquires Cloud Conformity and Apple Removes Malicious iOS Apps from App Store

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, learn about Trend Micro’s recent acquisition of Cloud Conformity. Also, read about a fake photo editing app on Google Play and the 17...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of June 18, 2018

As I pull together the list of zero-day filters for this blog, I see all types of vulnerabilities from various vendors. My interest is always piqued when I see a vulnerability affecting a security company. The Zero Day Initiative’s ZDI interest was also piqued when the researcher Pagefault...

AV-TEST’s April 2018 Windows Home User Test Report Shows 100% Protection Result and Top Product Award for Trend Micro Internet Security

Maintaining its Top Product protection rating, Trend Micro Internet Security 12.0 2018 continues to show 100% Protection results in tests conducted by the internationally respected testing lab AV-TEST.org. In its Mar-Apr 2018 test of 18 endpoint security products on Windows 10, the latest release...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 28, 2018

I ended up at an urgent care clinic earlier this week and found out I have strep throat. The doctor who examined me asked me what medicine I had taken prior to my visit to help alleviate my throat pain, to which I replied, “I took a multi-symptom liquid medicine because the pain was keeping me...

This Week in Security News: Trojans and Cyber Hacks

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. Read on for the latest on trojanized malware, smart phone hacks, and cybersecurity legislation. Dark Caracal Group Revealed: Group Used Trojanized...

This Week in Security News: Hackers and Ransoms

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, we saw discussion on the ransomware attacks plaguing institutions in the New Year, and emerging malware targeting Meltdown/Spectre patches...

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...

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...

Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Threats

This last week of National Cyber Security Awareness Month NCSAM, we focus on critical infrastructure CI. For many years now we have discussed and seen the result of poorly designed and protected control system networks. I wrote on this very topic back in 2016. Now the threat landscape has evolved...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 23, 2017

Just like Bugs Bunny wears disguises to avert his enemies, there’s another “wascally” rabbit causing trouble in the form of ransomware. Bad Rabbit is the latest ransomware campaign hitting Eastern European countries with what looks like a variant of the Petya/NotPetya ransomware. Bad Rabbit sprea...

How organizations can protect against new CERBER variations

TrendMicro Ransomware hit hard in 2016, with big attacks, large payouts and many new strains developed to thwart security measures. At the end of last year, Locky and CERBER ransomware families seemed to be neck and neck for market dominance. But that changed as CERBER evolved to offer new...

Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections

During our monitoring of Earth Lusca, we noticed a new campaign that used Chinese-Taiwanese relations as a social engineering lure to infect selected targets...

Threat Actors Leverage File-Sharing Service and Reverse Proxies for Credential Harvesting

We analyzed a phishing campaign involving malicious emails containing a link to a file-sharing solution, which further leads to a PDF document with a secondary link designed to steal login info and session cookies...

Analyzing an Old Bug and Discovering CVE-2021-30995

A vulnerability found in 2021 has been patched and re-patched in the months since it was reported. We analyze the bug and outline the process that led to the discovery of CVE-2021-30995...

Confucius Uses Pegasus Spyware-related Lures to Target Pakistani Military

While investigating the Confucius threat actor, we found a recent spear phishing campaign that utilizes Pegasus spyware-related lures to entice victims into opening a malicious document downloading a file stealer...

An Expert Discussion on Zero Trust

The future has grown to be uncertain, so has the security of your critical data. Trend Micro experts discuss how the Zero Trust strategy was born of organizations’ growing need for better risk insight...

Trend Micro HouseCall for Home Networks: Giving You a Free Hand in Home Network Security

Remember when only desktop computers in our homes had connections to the internet? Thanks to the latest developments in smart device technology, almost everything now can be connected— security cameras, smart TVs, gaming consoles, and network storage, to name just a few. While a home network...