YourCyanide: A CMD-based Ransomware With Multiple Layers of Obfuscation

The Trend Micro Threat Hunting team recently analyzed a series of CMD-based ransomware variants with a number capabilities such as stealing user information, bypassing remote desktop connections, and propagating through email and physical drives...

New APT Group Earth Berberoka Targets Gambling Websites With Old and New Malware

We recently found a new advanced persistent threat APT group that we have dubbed Earth Berberoka aka GamblingPuppet. This APT group targets gambling websites on Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms using old and new malware families...

5 Cloud Native Security Platform Must-haves

Discover 5 key security components to review and how to leverage a cloud native security platform with Mick McCluney Trend Micro and Kelly Griffin AWS...

ENISA says System Failure is on the Rise

The agency’s latest reports said that system failure comprises more than half of telecom incidents for 2020. Sixty-nine percent of incidents also affected the qualified trust services during the same year...

Browser Notification Spam Tricks Clicks for Ad Revenue

As many countries reintroduced lockdowns and restrictions, more people are once again stuck at home. Not only are people possibly bored at home, but many major sporting events are taking place. This brings fans to streaming sites to watch the games and inadvertently becoming victims of a major...

This Week in Security News: First Half of 2020 Led to Nearly 800 Disclosed Vulnerabilities and Cisco Jabber Bug Could Let Hackers Target Windows Systems Remotely

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 midyear roundup report which found that published vulnerabilities in the first half of 2020 grew to 786, compared ...

Let’s Continue the Skills Gap Conversation

Most analysis is that the cybersecurity skills gap or shortage is getting worse. ESG reported in CSOOnline that 2018 had the highest levels, at 51%, where organizations "claimed their organization had a problematic shortage of cybersecurity skills." It’s a complex problem, but I believe with...

Accelerating PCI Data Security Standard projects with Deep Security as a Service

Does your organization need to meet PCI DSS requirements? Are you struggling with multiple security tools? Or stretching your already overstretched team to prepare for an audit? Time to hit the accelerator with Trend Micro! If your applications deal with credit or payment card data, you need to g...

This Week in Security News: Facebook and Feds

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’s chief security officer resigned as Facebook steps up its cybersecurity efforts. Also, Feds indicted three Ukrainians charged with...

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...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 24, 2017

This week, I attended the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. 2017 marked the 20th anniversary of the Black Hat conference. A lot has certainly changed since I started attending back in 2002. I’m sure that many will have their opinions on the central themes that they saw at the conference...

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...

Weaponizing Trust Signals: Claude Code Lures and GitHub Release Payloads

A packaging error in Anthropic’s Claude Code npm release briefly exposed internal source code. This entry examines how threat actors rapidly weaponized the resulting attention, pivoting an existing AI-themed campaign to spread Vidar and GhostSocks...

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...

CVE-2025-26633: How Water Gamayun Weaponizes MUIPath using MSC EvilTwin

Trend Research identified Russian threat actor Water Gamayun exploiting CVE-2025-26633, a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Management Console that attackers exploit to execute malicious code and exfiltrate data...

Future of Cybersecurity: Will XDR Reshape SIEM & SOAR?

XDR is reshaping cybersecurity by unifying and enhancing SIEM and SOAR capabilities into a single platform. It addresses alert fatigue, improves incident correlation, simplifies operations, and enhances efficiency for SOC teams...

Link Trap: GenAI Prompt Injection Attack

Prompt injection exploits vulnerabilities in generative AI to manipulate its behavior, even without extensive permissions. This attack can expose sensitive data, making awareness and preventive measures essential. Learn how it works and how to stay protected...

Earth Simnavaz (aka APT34) Levies Advanced Cyberattacks Against UAE and Gulf Regions

Trend Micro's investigation into the recent activity of Earth Simnavaz provides new insights into the APT group’s evolving tactics and the immediate threat it poses to critical sectors in the UAE...

Earth Freybug Uses UNAPIMON for Unhooking Critical APIs

This article provides an in-depth look into two techniques used by Earth Freybug actors: dynamic-link library DLL hijacking and application programming interface API unhooking to prevent child processes from being monitored via a new malware we’ve discovered and dubbed UNAPIMON...

2023 Review: Reflecting on Cybersecurity Trends

Every year, experts weigh in with predictions of what the big cybersecurity trends will be—but how often are they right? That’s the question Trend Micro’s Greg Young and Bill Malik asked recently on their Real Cybersecurity podcast, looking at what forecasters got wrong on a wide range of topics,...

Cybercriminals Exploit the Moroccan Tragedy in New Scam Campaign

This blog entry details a scheme that exploits the recent Morocco earthquake by impersonating the domain name of a well-known humanitarian organization for financial fraud...

Leverage the AWS Sustainability Pillar to Minimize Environmental Impact

One of the key pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework WAF is sustainability: the idea that cloud applications should be designed to minimize their environmental impact. Gain insight into the WAF sustainability pillar and discover best practices for architecting your cloud applications to...

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...

Security Vulnerabilities of ChatGPT-Generated Code

Discover the cybersecurity risks of AI-generated code, learn how to protect your applications, and understand how the rise of ChatGPT is impacting software development...

In Review: What GPT-3 Taught ChatGPT in a Year

Amidst the uproar and opinions since November 2022, we look at the possibilities and implications of what OpenAI’s ChatGPT presents to the cybersecurity industry using a comparison to earlier products, like its predecessor GPT-3...

ZTNA vs VPN: Secure Remote Work & Access - SASE Part 2

Explore the drivers behind switching from VPN to Zero Trust Network Access ZTNA for any device access from anywhere...

MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Tests

Trend Micro Vision One achieved a protection score of 100% in this year’s evaluation, proving once again that it is an invaluable tool that provides higher confidence detections for security operations teams...

A Complete Guide to Cloud-Native Application Security

Explore this comprehensive guide to application security, which provides an overview of the importance of embedding runtime application security controls in the application build workflow to protect cloud-native web applications and APIs...

Safeguarding against cryptomining attacks

A look at popular coinmining attacks and how Trend Micro can help protect you...

Are employees the weakest link in your security strategy? Train them!

Email is the number one threat vector. There’s no exception, even with a global pandemic, on the contrary: COVID-19 has been used as an appealing hook by cyber criminals. Data from Trend Micro Smart Protection Network shows that for the first five months of 2020, 92 per cent of all the cyber...

ESG Findings on Trend Micro Cloud-Powered XDR Drives Monumental Business Value

This material was published by ESG Research Insights Report, Validating Trend Micro’s Approach and Enhancing GTM Intelligence, 2020. The post ESG Findings on Trend Micro Cloud-Powered XDR Drives Monumental Business Value appeared first on...

Risk Decisions in an Imperfect World

Risk decisions are the foundation of information security. Sadly, they are also one of the most often misunderstood parts of information security. This is bad enough on its own but can sink any effort at education as an organization moves towards a DevOps philosophy. To properly evaluate the risk...

This Week in Security News: Hackers and Cyber Attackers

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, Chili’s parent company – Brinker International – announced that consumer credit and debit card information had been compromised at some...

The Inside Scoop on the World’s Leading Bug Bounty Program

Within the security researcher community, the Zero Day Initiative ZDI program is a well-known entity, representing the world’s largest vendor agnostic bug bounty program. Customers of the TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention Systems IPS and Threat Protection Systems TPS know the ZDI as the group tha...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 29, 2017

“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” It’s not exactly clear how Murphy’s Law originated, but it seems to always make an appearance at the one time you can’t afford for anything to go wrong. Your laptop starts to malfunction right as you need to finish a project this happened to yours truly...

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...

A Deep Dive into Water Gamayun’s Arsenal and Infrastructure

Trend Research discusses the delivery methods, custom payloads, and techniques used by Water Gamayun, the suspected Russian threat actor abusing a zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Management Console framework CVE-2025-26633 to execute malicious code on infected machines...

Unmasking Prometei: A Deep Dive Into Our MXDR Findings

How does Prometei insidiously operate in a compromised system? This Managed Extended Detection and Response investigation conducted with the help of Trend Vision One provides a comprehensive analysis of the inner workings of this botnet so users can stop the threat in its tracks before it inflict...

Using gRPC and HTTP/2 for Cryptominer Deployment: An Unconventional Approach

In this blog entry, we discuss how malicious actors are exploiting Docker remote API servers via gRPC/h2c to deploy the cryptominer SRBMiner to facilitate their mining of XRP on Docker hosts...

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...

Turning Jenkins Into a Cryptomining Machine From an Attacker's Perspective

In this blog entry, we will discuss how the Jenkins Script Console can be weaponized by attackers for cryptomining activity if not configured properly...

Not Just Another 100% Score: MITRE ENGENIUTY ATT&CK

The latest MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations pitted leading managed detection and response MDR services against threats modeled on the menuPass and BlackCat/AlphV adversary groups. Trend Micro achieved 100% detection across all 15 major attack steps with an 86% actionable rate for those steps—...

Beware: Lumma Stealer Distributed via Discord CDN

This blog discusses how threat actors abuse Discord’s content delivery network CDN to host and spread Lumma Stealer, and talks about added capabilities to the information stealing malware...

AWS Graviton Use Cases

Discover how AWS Graviton’s optimized processors help provide a superior price-performance ratio. Available for AWS-managed services, you’ll gain insight on strategies, use cases, and insight on how to get the most out of AWS Graviton...

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...

Tailing Big Head Ransomware’s Variants, Tactics, and Impact

We analyze the technical details of a new ransomware family named Big Head. In this entry, we discuss the Big Head ransomware’s similarities and distinct markers that add more technical details to initial reports on the ransomware...

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...

Earth Zhulong: Familiar Patterns Target Southeast Asian Firms

In 2022, we discovered Earth Zhulong, a hacking group that has been targeting Asian firms similar to another well-known threat actor. In this article, we unravel their new tactics, techniques and procedures that they apply on their misdeeds...