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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...
TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of January 15, 2018
It’s been just over 14 years since I almost left this crazy world due to a bad car accident. I have a number of scars and daily pains that serve as reminders of that day. While some may think scars and pain are a burden and a nuisance, I think of them as reminders of how far I’ve come since that...
Lack of Internal IT Security Expertise Requires Connected Threat Defense
There are many different factors that can impact a company's overall security posture. Increasing sophistication on the part of cyber criminals, combined with more frequent attacks launched using advanced malware, represent some of the most pervasive drivers of IT security. However, one issue...
Accelerating Security for Intelligent Transportation Systems: A New Trend Micro Report
Connected cars and autonomous vehicles are getting all the headlines these days, especially when it comes to cybersecurity concerns. But that’s only half of the story. An under-reported but hugely important piece of the puzzle relates to the Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS needed to create...
OAuth Phishing On The Rise
Recently there was a significant volume of new phishing emails aimed at capturing access to Google accounts…specifically your email and contacts. You can read more about it at The Verge, Quartz, and Ars Technica. This phish is a great—evil !?!—example of a sophisticated attempt to gain access to ...
Smart Contracts for C&C: How ClearFake Hid in Plain Sight on BSC Testnet
TrendAI™ Research analyzed an intrusion where threat actors used the EtherHiding technique to route ClearFake payload delivery through smart contracts on the BNB Smart Chain testnet. The attack chain ended with two simultaneously deployed stealers, SectopRAT and ACRStealer alongside an on-chain...
AI-Automated Threat Hunting Brings GhostPenguin Out of the Shadows
In this blog entry, Trend™ Research provides a comprehensive breakdown of GhostPenguin, a previously undocumented Linux backdoor with low detection rates that was discovered through AI-powered threat hunting and in-depth malware analysis...
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...
Analyzing a Facebook Profile Stealer Written in Node.js
We analyze an information stealer written in Node.js, packaged into an executable, exfiltrated stolen data via both Telegram bot API and a C&C server, and employed GraphQL as a channel for C&C communication...
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...
5 Types of Cyber Crime Groups
Discover the five main types of cyber crime groups: access as a service, ransomware as a service, bulletproof hosting, crowd sourcing, and phishing as a service as well as tips to strengthen your defense strategy...
Uncovering a Kingminer Botnet Attack Using Trend Micro™ Managed XDR
Trend Micro’s Managed XDR team addressed a Kingminer botnet attack conducted through an SQL exploit. We discuss our findings and analysis in this report...
Expanded Cloud Misconfiguration & IaaS Security
Cloud One – Conformity has expanded its support for multi-clouds and Terraform users to add even more configuration checks so cloud projects are built on a foundation of best practice security and compliance...
This Week in Security News - August 13, 2021
This Week in Security News: Hackers Steal $600 million in Largest Ever Cryptocurrency Heist and Cybersecurity is the New ‘Great Game’...
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...
This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Researcher Uncover Two Espionage Backdoors Associated with Operation Earth Kitsune and Trickbot and Ransomware Attackers Plan Big Hit on U.S. Hospitals
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, learn about how Trend Micro researchers uncovered two new espionage backdoors associated with the ‘Operation Earth Kitsune’ campaign. Also, read...
Cyber Security Awareness: A Critical Checklist
October 2020 marks the 17th year of National CyberSecurity Awareness Month, where users and organizations are encouraged to double their efforts to be aware of cybersecurity issues in all their digital dealings—and to take concrete steps to increase their privacy and security as necessary. The...
Cleaner One Pro Speeds Up Your Mac: Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog, we introduced Trend Micro Cleaner One Pro, a one-stop shop to help you speed up your Mac, highlighting the Quick Optimizer, the Main Console, and the Cleaning Tools. In Part 2, we resume the discussion of how to make your Mac run faster with the remaining Cleaner One Pro...
Fixing cloud migration: What goes wrong and why?
The cloud space has been evolving for almost a decade. As a company we’re a major cloud user ourselves. That means we’ve built up a huge amount of in-house expertise over the years around cloud migration — including common challenges and perspectives on how organizations can best approach project...
The Next Enterprise Challenge: How Best to Secure Containers and Monolithic Apps Together, Company-wide
Submitted by: Adam Boyle, Head of Product Management, Hybrid Cloud Security, Trend Micro When it comes to software container security, it’s important for enterprises to look at the big picture, taking into account how they see containers affecting their larger security requirements and future...
Ransomware Threat Continues: How Infections Take Place
If cybersecurity consultants and IT admins have learned anything of the current threat environment, it's that ransomware will continue to be a pervasive and dangerous threat to individual users, enterprises and organizations at large. When they first emerged, these infections were unlike anything...
This Week in Security News: Cyber Leads and Email Frauds
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, The Trump Administration added a cyber lead at Homeland Security and the Energy Department. Also, the FBI announced the arrest of 74 “email...
We Did It Again! Trend Micro Named a Leader in 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)
Trend Micro has been named a Leader in the Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems IDPS again. We have improved our position in both Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute from last year, and we believe that placement in the Leaders’ quadrant illustrates...
Trend Micro is Proud to Sponsor G33kW33k!
It started as a small idea. Get a bunch of good people together, away from the pressures of their offices, and see if they could address some of the issues operational security teams have to deal with. Better monitoring tools; better analysis tools; new ways to generate threat indicators and feed...
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...
The Unified Cloud
Throughout the history of cloud computing, 2006 was a momentous year. In 2006 Amazon Web Services released S3, the first pay per GB storage service. By August, they released EC2, allowing you to spin up a server and pay by the hour in the cloud. In the decade that has followed, AWS has emerged as...
Leading by Example at the HITRUST Annual Healthcare Cybersecurity Conference
If we’ve learned anything from the past year in cybersecurity, it’s that cybercriminals do not discriminate when it comes to their victims. Hospital systems have been forced to shut down for crucial periods, denying patients vital treatment as healthcare organizations struggle to contain the...
Shifts in the Underground: The Impact of Water Kurita’s (Lumma Stealer) Doxxing
A targeted underground doxxing campaign exposed alleged core members of Lumma Stealer Water Kurita, resulting in a sharp decline in its activity and a migration of customers to rival infostealer platforms...
Threat Actors Target the Middle East Using Fake Palo Alto GlobalProtect Tool
Threat actors are targeting users in the Middle East by distributing sophisticated malware disguised as the Palo Alto GlobalProtect tool...
Earth Preta Campaign Uses DOPLUGS to Target Asia
In this blog entry, we focus on Earth Preta's campaign that employed a variant of the DOPLUGS malware to target Asian countries...
The XDR Payoff: Better Security Posture
As the extended detection and response XDR market grows and evolves, it’s a great opportunity to learn about the positive outcomes like better security posture experienced by organizations that have invested in these capabilities...
BlackCat Ransomware Deploys New Signed Kernel Driver
In this blog post, we will provide details on a BlackCat ransomware incident that occurred in February 2023, where we observed a new capability, mainly used for the defense evasion phase...
This Week in Security News - July 30, 2021
Threat Actors Exploit Apache Hadoop YARN and BlackMatter Ransomware Claims to Be Best of REvil, Darkside...
#LetsTalkSecurity: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Let's Talk Security: Season 02 // Episode 04: Host, Rik Ferguson, interviews the Head of Cyber Security for Moonpig, Tash Norris. Together they question, what could go wrong in the world of cyber security?...
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...
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...
This Week in Security News: 10,000 Users Affected by Leak from Misconfigured AWS Cloud Storage and Massive U.S. Property and Demographic Database Exposes 200 Million Records
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 how the data of train commuters in the U.K. who were using the free Wi-Fi in Network Rail-managed stations was unintentionally...
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...
The Summit of Cybersecurity Sits Among the Clouds
Trend Micro Apex One as a Service You have heard it before, but it needs to be said again—threats are constantly evolving and getting sneakier, more malicious, and harder to find than ever before. It’s a hard job to stay one step ahead of the latest threats and scams organizations come across, bu...
Phishing, Part 2: Staying Safe
As mentioned in Phishing Part 1: On the Lookout, phishing attacks have been around for years, but today’s cybercriminals are adept at using them in an ever-increasing variety of ways to get what they want. According to the most recent FBI figures, phishing and its variants was the third most...
This Week in Security News: Security and Safety on Social Media
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, California lawmakers passed a new online privacy bill guaranteeing more control over user data. Also, Typeform announced a breach involving...
Independent lab tests again prove the excellence of Trend Micro Mobile Security for Android
Submitted by Ian Grutze For the fourth year in a row, as shown in AV Comparatives’ Anti-Virus Comparative Android Test 2018 - January 2018, Trend Micro Mobile Security for Android shows it provides 100% protection against malware. In this independent lab test, more than 200 mobile security produc...
Our Journey to GDPR Compliance: Lessons learned on our way to May 25th
With the European Union’s EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR date fast approaching, we have been working hard to make sure our already strong security culture and policies will align with the new regulation. As GDPR is a very broad law that includes people, process, and technology, workin...
Uber: How Not To Handle A Breach
Uber is a company that is embattled on all fronts. From a very public power struggle to labour issues to regulatory challenges to a reportedly toxic culture, Uber sits in a precarious position. Yesterday, a new strike against the company came to light. In October 2016, Uber was hacked resulting i...
TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 30, 2017
Competition is inherent in our DNA. At a basic level, we compete for things like water and food. We also take it up a level and compete for wealth, fame and power. Some compete to be the best in sports, like my Houston Astros winning the 2017 World Series, and others compete to be the best in the...
The Law of Unintended Outbreak – Who Is at Risk from Petya?
Hot on the heels of the global WannaCry outbreak in May, yesterday saw a wave of what looked like copycat malware sweeping the globe again. However, on closer inspection there may more to this than meets the eye, more than a simple new variant of an already established ransomware borrowing...
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...
Decade Long Partnership = Global Partner Innovation Award
Here at Trend Micro we highly value the relationships we’ve build with our partners, especially those that have spanned several years. However, it’s particularly gratifying when those partners choose to recognize our work with an award. So, excuse us while we toot our own horn’s for a bit...
Protecting Your Small Business From WannaCry
May 12, 2017 saw the world’s first ever worm-based ransomware attack, WannaCry. Typically ransomware spreads via email as spam and phishing attacks, and relies on human intervention to initiate the infection. However, WannaCry is different in that it combines ransomware with a recently published...