This Week in Security News: 5 Reasons to Move Your Endpoint Security to the Cloud Now and ICEBUCKET Group Mimics Smart TVs to Steal Ad Money

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 5 reasons your organization should consider moving to a cloud managed solution. Also, read about a massive online fraud operatio...

The Aurora Power Grid Vulnerability and the BlackEnergy Trojan

At recent Industrial IoT security briefings, the Aurora vulnerability has come up repeatedly. Attendees ask, “Is our country’s power grid safe? How can we protect the grid? What is Aurora?” This post provides a look at Aurora, and the BlackEnergy attack that can exploit Aurora. In March 2007, the...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of February 26, 2018

Pwn2Own 2018 is coming up in a couple of weeks and I am excited to see what interesting vulnerabilities will pop up at the contest. I attempted to explain the contest to my mom, and in the simplest terms, I told her that Pwn2Own is a contest where contestants are rewarded for breaking something...

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...

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...

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...

SeroXen Incorporates Latest BatCloak Engine Iteration

We looked into the documented behavior of SeroXen malware and noted the inclusion of the latest iteration of the batch obfuscation engine BatCloak to generate a fully undetectable FUD .bat loader. This is the second part of a three-part series documenting the abuse of BatCloak’s evasion...

Meet Your New AI Assistant: Introducing Trend Vision One™ – Companion

Discover how Companion can help upgrade SOC efficiency and elevate your team to reach their full potential...

Managed XDR Investigation of Ducktail in Trend Micro Vision One™

The Trend Micro Managed XDR team investigated several Ducktail-related web browser credential dumping incidents involving different customers...

Examining New DawDropper Banking Dropper and DaaS on the Dark Web

In this blog post, we discuss the technical details of a new banking dropper that we have dubbed DawDropper, give a brief history of banking trojans released in early 2022 that use malicious droppers, and elaborate on cybercriminal activities related to DaaS in the deep web...

How Shady Code Commits Compromise the Security of the Open-Source Ecosystem

In this blog entry, we discuss how open-source code has been subjected to protest-driven code modifications by its maintainers or backers. We also provide an analysis of what these incidents could mean for the IT industry and the open source community...

TeamTNT Campaigns Emphasize Importance of Addressing Cloud Security Gaps

Having covered TeamTNT in several of our blog entries over the past couple of years, we embarked on a research that encompasses the malicious actor group’s campaigns, tools, and techniques in 2020 and early 2021...

Trend Micro Integrates with Amazon AppFlow

The acceleration of in-house development enabled by public cloud and Software-as-a-Service SaaS platform adoption in the last few years has given us new levels of visibility and access to data. Putting all of that data together to generate insights and action, however, can substitute one challeng...

5 reasons to move your endpoint security to the cloud now

As the world has adopts work from home initiatives, we’ve seen many organizations accelerate their plans to move from on-premises endpoint security and Detection and Response EDR/XDR solutions to Software as a Service versions. And several customers who switched to the SaaS version last year,...

The AWS Service to Focus On – Amazon EC2

If we run a contest for Mr. Popular of Amazon Web Services AWS, without a doubt Amazon Simple Storage Service S3 has ‘winner’ written all over it. However, what’s popular is not always what is critical for your business to focus on. There is popularity and then there is dependability. Let’s...

Zero Day Initiative: A 1H2018 Recap

When the Zero Day Initiative ZDI was formed in 2005, the cyber threat landscape was a bit different from what we see today. Threats were a little less sophisticated, but there was one thing that we saw then that we still see now: the shortage of cybersecurity professionals and researchers. The te...

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...

Your startup disk is almost full – How you can fix it on your Mac

Every Mac user will experience the message “Your startup disk is almost full” at one time or another. Understanding what “startup disk is full” actually means is the first important step before you can fix this issue. What if my Mac’s Startup Disk is Full? The answer to this question is easy. Whe...

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...

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...

The Signs Were There: What the First Autonomous Ransomware Case Confirms

An AI agent has run a ransomware intrusion on its own for the first time, from break-in to data destruction. The autonomous attacks TrendAI™ Research predicted are beginning to arrive, and defending against them shifts from blocking known indicators to detecting behavior...

Claude Code Security set the Cybersecurity Stocks on Fire - Here's the Signal in the Smoke

Learn how Claude Code Security set Cybersecurity stocks on fire...

BPFDoor’s Hidden Controller Used Against Asia, Middle East Targets

A controller linked to BPF backdoor can open a reverse shell, enabling deeper infiltration into compromised networks. Recent attacks have been observed targeting the telecommunications, finance, and retail sectors across South Korea, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Egypt...

Reduce Business Email Compromise with Collaboration

Here's the latest Trend Vision One™ platform integration addressing the growing need for collaboration in business email security space...

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...

ISO/SAE 21434: It’s time to put the brakes on connected car cyber-threats

Connected cars are on the move. Globally their number is set to grow 270% between 2018 and 2022 to reach an estimated 125 million in a couple of years. Increasingly, these vehicles are more akin to high-performance mobile computers with wheels than traditional cars, with features including intern...

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...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of January 22, 2018

Yesterday, the Zero Day Initiative ZDI announced the dates and contest rules for Pwn2Own 2018. Last year, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the event and the 11th year is going to be bigger than ever! Pwn2Own will be returning to Vancouver, BC, at the CanSecWest Conference on March 14-16, 201...

3 reasons the ransomware threat will continue in 2018

Ransomware has been on the scene for more than a decade now, and thanks to increasingly sophisticated samples that attack victims across nearly every country, it's become a global threat. According to CSO, ransomware has a longer history than many realize. While large-scale attacks reached the...

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...

Accelerating AI Research to Improve Threat Protection

Once the realm of science fiction, artificial intelligence AI is now very much science fact. The potential of this ground-breaking technology – and related disciplines including deep learning and machine learning – is so great that even governments in the UK and US have released reports on its...

Trend Micro Smart Protection Complete Receives 5-Star Review from SC Magazine

The best days are the ones you wake up to good news you weren’t expecting, right? Well, earlier this month we woke up to find out the Trend Micro Smart Protection Complete had received a five-star rating and “Best Buy” recommendation from one of the security industries leading publications at SC...

Pwn2Own: Researchers Earn $1 Million for 76 Zero-Days

Discover how TrendAI Zero Day Initiative ZDI identified critical vulnerabilities across connected vehicles, EV chargers, and automotive systems...

Gafgyt Malware Targeting Docker Remote API Servers

Our researchers identified threat actors exploiting misconfigured Docker servers to spread the Gafgyt malware. This threat traditionally targets IoT devices; this new tactic signals a change in its behavior...

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...

Stealthy Android Malware MMRat Carries Out Bank Fraud Via Fake App Stores

The Trend Micro Mobile Application Reputation Service MARS team discovered a new, fully undetected Android banking trojan, dubbed MMRat, that has been targeting mobile users in Southeast Asia since late June 2023...

Malvertising Used as Entry Vector for BlackCat, Actors Also Leverage SpyBoy Terminator

We found that malicious actors used malvertising to distribute malware via cloned webpages of legitimate organizations. The distribution involved a webpage of the well-known application WinSCP, an open-source Windows application for file transfer. We were able to identify that this activity led t...

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...

What Is Zero Trust and Why Does It Matter?

There has been a lot of discussion around Zero Trust recently—is it a solution? A strategy? A pipe dream? Eric Skinner from Trend Micro gets real about Zero Trust and explains what it really is, and how organizations can use it to be more resilient...

What is a VPN and How Does it Increase Your Online Security and Privacy?

The number of VPN users has grown considerably over the past few years. According to the report of Go-Globe, 25% of netizens worldwide have used a VPN at least once in the last 30 days. Recently, VPN usage has surged in many countries and its popularity may see VPN usage surpass the estimated...

Connected Security Solutions Helps City of Tyler’s CIO to Reduce Costs While Enabling Delivery of Enhanced Community & Public Safety Services

“We’re here to serve” is Benny Yazdanpanahi’s motto as CIO for City of Tyler located in Texas. Supporting a population of approximately 107,000, Yazdanpanahi’s vision for his city relies on the use of data to deliver exceptional services to citizens, today and into the future. Since joining the...

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...

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: 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...

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...

This Week in Security News: Exposure and Susceptibility

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, a new report revealed that the Equifax breach had a larger impact than previously thought. In addition, The Senate Intelligence Committee...