LockBit Resurfaces With Version 2.0 Ransomware Detections in Chile, Italy, Taiwan, UK

The ransomware group LockBit resurfaced in June with LockBit 2.0, with reports indicating an increased number of targeted companies and the incorporation of double extortion features. Our detections followed attack attempts in Chile, Italy, Taiwan, and the UK from July to August...

Detecting PrintNightmare Exploit Attempts using Trend Micro Vision One and Cloud One

We look into the different implementations of PrintNightmare and include recommendations on how security teams can safeguard their workloads...

Risks in Telecommunications IT

We summarize the characteristics, threats, and recommendations to improve the security posture of enterprises' and telecommunications companies' IT infrastructure...

This Week in Security News - July 16, 2021

Trends and Shifts in the Underground N-Day Exploit Market and Scams Make Getting Verified on Social Media a Minefield...

Black Hat Trip Report – Trend Micro

At Black Hat USA 2020, Trend Micro presented two important talks on vulnerabilities in Industrial IoT IIoT. The first discussed weaknesses in proprietary languages used by industrial robots, and the second talked about vulnerabilities in protocol gateways. Any organization using robots, and any...

This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Research Discovers Cybercriminal Turf War on Routers and a Massive Twitter Breach Compromises Some of the World’s Most Prominent Accounts

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, read about Trend Micro’s report on the botnet battle for IoT territory and how attacker groups are trying to gain control of vulnerable...

This Week in Security News: Payment Card Skimmer Attacks Hit 8 Cities and Survey Finds 72% of Remote Workers Have Gained Cybersecurity Awareness During Lockdown

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, read about eight U.S. cities that recently had payment card data stolen via point-of-sale skimming malware on their Click2Gov online payment...

This Week in Security News: XORDDoS and Kaiji Botnet Malware Variants Target Exposed Docker Servers and Ripple20 Vulnerabilities Could Impact Millions of IoT Devices

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 two recently detected variants of existing Linux botnet malware types targeting exposed Docker servers. Also, read about a group...

How to Stay Safe as Online Coronavirus Scams Spread

Few national emergencies have the ability to strike panic into the populace quite like a virus pandemic. It’s fortunately something most of us have never had to experience, until now. At the time of writing, the number of global confirmed cases of Coronavirus infection, or COVID-19, has reached...

Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 2, 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR has been up and running for a couple of months now and your organization is compliant. It’s time to take a little break – well, not so fast! Late last week, the State of California passed a new data privacy law called the California Consumer Privacy Act...

Can Your Managed Detection and Response Service Do This?

Submitted by Steve Duncan Trend Micro has recently introduced its Managed Detection and Response Service to North America. This spring at the RSA show in San Francisco I had that chance to catch up with Jon Oltsik of ESG again to discuss our new offering and why we think the time is right. As...

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...

A Look Back: Reviewing the Worst Cyber Attacks of 2017 and the Lessons Learned

It seems that each year that passes is worse than the last in terms of hacking and cyber attacks, and 2017 was no exception. "Surprising no one, 2017 was marked another 'worst year ever' in data breaches and cyber incidents around the world," said Jeff Wilbur, director of the Internet Society's...

Today’s Predictions for Tomorrow’s Internet

Making predictions is a tricky business and in no area more so than in the area of rapidly developing technology. The pace of change continues to accelerate and the nature of innovation is such that entrepreneurs, as well as criminals are continually searching for “the next big thing” to either...

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...

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...

Business Process Compromise: The Next Step in Advanced Targeted Attacks

Targeted attacks have come a long way in recent years, leveraging increasingly advanced techniques aimed at specific individuals. Often, these hackers pinpoint a single person within an enterprise, steal their credentials, log into an account, and leverage this position to find sensitive...

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...

GenAI Is Both Hunter and Hunted at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026

This year’s Pwn2Own competition in Berlin revealed just how much of the AI stack remains exposed -- and the gap between what these tools promise and what they can withstand point to the fragile security foundations underneath...

Increase in Lumma Stealer Activity Coincides with Use of Adaptive Browser Fingerprinting Tactics

In this blog entry, Trend™ Research analyses the layered command-and-control approaches that Lumma Stealer uses to maintain its ongoing operations while enhancing collection of victim-environment 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...

Investigating A Web Shell Intrusion With Trend Micro™ Managed XDR

This blog discusses a web shell intrusion incident where attackers abused the IIS worker to exfiltrate stolen data...

Guess Who’s Back - The Return of ANEL in the Recent Earth Kasha Spear-phishing Campaign in 2024

Trend Micro has identified a spear-phishing campaign active in Japan since June 2024. Evidence about the malware used by this campaign suggests this was part of a new operation by Earth Kasha...

Breaking Down Earth Estries' Persistent TTPs in Prolonged Cyber Operations

Discover how Earth Estries employs a diverse set of tactics, techniques, and tools, including malware such as Zingdoor and Snappybee, for its campaigns...

MDR in Action: Preventing The More_eggs Backdoor From Hatching

Trend Micro MDR Managed Detection and Response team promptly mitigated a moreeggs infection. Using Vision One, MDR illustrated how Custom Filters/Models and Security Playbook can be used to automate the response to moreeggs and similar threats...

DarkGate Opens Organizations for Attack via Skype, Teams

We detail an ongoing campaign abusing messaging platforms Skype and Teams to distribute the DarkGate malware to targeted organizations. We also discovered that once DarkGate is installed on the victim’s system, additional payloads were introduced to the environment...

New Info Stealer Bandit Stealer Targets Browsers, Wallets

This is an analysis of Bandit Stealer, a new Go-based information-stealing malware capable of evading detection as it targets multiple browsers and cryptocurrency wallets...

Royal Ransomware expands attacks by targeting Linux ESXi servers

Ransomware actors have been observed to expand their targets by increasingly developing Linux-based versions. Royal ransomware is following in the same path, a new variant targeting Linux systems emerged and we will provide a technical analysis on this variant in this blog...

What is Business Attack Surface Management?

Explore how businesses can make internal and external attack surface management ASM actionable...

Trend Micro Partners With Interpol and Nigeria’s EFCC for Operation Killer Bee, Takes Down Nigerian BEC Actors

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC arrested three suspected scammers from Nigeria who were involved in global scamming campaigns via a sting operation that is part of Operation Killer Bee. Trend Micro provided information on the group and their modus operandi...

This Week in Security News – October 15, 2021

Actors target Huawei Cloud using upgraded Linux malware, 7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent and more...

Manage Open Source Software Library Risks

Learn about the growing open source library trend, the pros and cons of using open source code, and how to mitigate associated risks...

Protection from Malware and AWS Bucket Leaks

You can’t control the weather. But you can safeguard your downstream infrastructure investment...

Open source protection that security teams will love

Open source code is the gateway to quick application deployment – see how Trend Micro and Snyk have partnered up to create developer-friendly security for your open source components...

Protecting LoRaWAN Hardware from Attacks in the Wild

In the last article of our LoRaWAN series, we present dangerous hardware attacks that could affect organizations using this technology. These attacks are particularly worrying because many LoRaWAN devices are deployed in unsecured locations...

This Week in Security News: Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative Celebrates 15 Years and 24 Million Customers Affected after Experian Data Breach

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, read how the Zero Day Initiative ZDI has awarded more than $25 million in bounty rewards to security researchers over the past decade and a...

Cloud Assurance from Infrastructure to App

In this webinar, Trend Micro and IDC explain the importance of security guardrails in Amazon Web Services AWS and Microsoft® Azure™ play in obtaining cloud operational excellence...

COVID-19: How Do I Work from Home Securely?

The coronavirus pandemic—the infection officially designated as COVID-19—is causing upheaval across the globe. Aside from the serious economic and public health implications, one very practical impact of shelter-in-place dictums is to force many companies to support remote working where they can...

In Safe Hands with Trend Micro Home Network Security – Part 3: Testing Its Functions

We continue our four-part series on protecting your home and family. See the links to the previous parts at the end of this blog. As you use more internet-connected devices and smart appliances in your home, it’s of utmost importance to make sure your gadgets are properly protected from malware a...

What Did We Learn from the Global GPS Collapse?

On April 6, 2019, a ten-bit counter rolled over. The counter, a component of many older satellites, marks the weeks since Jan 1, 1980. It rolled over once before, in the fall of 1999. That event was inconsequential because few complex systems relied on GPS. Now, more systems rely on accurate time...

The Risk of IoT Security Complacency

Trend Micro recently surveyed 1,150 IT executives globally. We found a gap between the perceived risk from IoT and the planned mitigation for that risk. Most senior executives recognize that IoT can introduce security risk to the organization, but few will invest resources to remediate that risk...

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...

Trend Micro at MWC: Securing Our Mobile, Connected World

Time flies pretty fast in tech. When Trend Micro was founded nearly 30 years ago, mobile phones were pretty clunky, prohibitively expensive and not in the least bit “smart.” Fast forward to today and the device in your pocket has more compute power than the NASA machines that put man on the moon...

Trend Micro: Winning at Wellness Again

In the never-ending race for profits, shareholder value and customer wins, organizations can sometimes forget about their employees. Yet in reality, your workers are your number one asset: if they feel undervalued or disrespected it can rip the heart and soul out of the organization, setting off ...

Cybercriminal Undergrounds: Social and Economic Philosophies

When you think of a hacker, what's the first thing that comes to mind? It might be a lone person typing away in a dark room, an image commonly represented in movies and television. However, the world of cybercrime is much more sophisticated than this. Attackers are forming groups to create larger...

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...

Ransomware: What Are the Bad Guys After and How Do I Stop Them?

If the past few days of WannaCry ransomware activity have taught us anything it’s that cybercriminals pose a clear and present danger to organizations and their customers all over the world. But have you ever wondered exactly what the bad guys are after when they launch their online attacks at yo...

Volume Is Not Risk: Making Sense of the “Vulnpocalypse”

A briefing for security leaders on separating vulnerability disclosure volume from exploitable risk in 2026...

Inside Shadow-Earth-053: A China-Aligned Cyberespionage Campaign Against Government and Defense Sectors in Asia

A China-aligned threat group is exploiting unpatched Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities to conduct cyberespionage against government and critical infrastructure targets across Asia and beyond...

Black Basta and Cactus Ransomware Groups Add BackConnect Malware to Their Arsenal

In this blog entry, we discuss how the Black Basta and Cactus ransomware groups utilized the BackConnect malware to maintain persistent control and exfiltrate sensitive data from compromised machines...