Earth Baxia Uses Spear-Phishing and GeoServer Exploit to Target APAC

We observed Earth Baxia carrying out targeted attacks against APAC countries that involved advanced techniques like spear-phishing and customized malware, with data suggesting that the group operates from China...

ISPM + ITDR: Proactive Cyber Defense in the AI Era

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, staying ahead of malicious actors requires a multifaceted approach...

Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets

Based on our estimates, from approximately April 2022 until November 2023, Pawn Storm attempted to launch NTLMv2 hash relay attacks through different methods, with huge peaks in the number of targets and variations in the government departments that it targeted...

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,...

Top 5 Infrastructure as Code Security Challenges

Learn how to counteract the top five challenges of infrastructure as code IaC and discover how these obstacles pose a threat to security and gain valuable insight in how to mitigate these risks...

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...

ZTNA vs VPN: Secure Remote Work and Access

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

New Mimic Ransomware Abuses Everything APIs for its Encryption Process

Trend Micro researchers discovered a new ransomware that abuses the APIs of a legitimate tool called Everything, a Windows filename search engine developed by Voidtools that offers quick searching and real-time updates for minimal resource usage...

Security Culture Matters when IT is Decentralized

Decentralization can make enterprises more agile but it also makes IT and network security more complex. Creating a strong security culture, deploying the right tools, and defining an incident response plan are key to keeping the business protected...

Unlocking Serverless with AWS Lambda and IAM

Learn how Lambda and IAM unlock the power and versatility of the cloud by implementing a serverless User API that can be expanded on as you grow and explore the many services on AWS...

Aligning the c-suite with cyber risk management

As we creep toward a post-pandemic world, organizations need to plan accordingly. Explore Trend Micro’s latest cyber risk research to enable your business to maximize its growth and potential...

An Investigation of the BlackCat Ransomware via Trend Micro Vision One

We recently investigated a case related to the BlackCat ransomware group using the Trend Micro Vision One™ platform, which comes with extended detection and response XDR capabilities. BlackCat aka AlphaVM or AlphaV is a ransomware family created in the Rust programming language and operated under...

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...

Chaos Ransomware: A Proof of Concept With Potentially Dangerous Applications

Since June 2021, we’ve been monitoring an in-development ransomware builder called Chaos, which is being offered for testing on an underground forum...

This Week in Security News - August 6, 2021

This week, learn how false advertisers use spam browser notifications to gain ad revenue. Also, read about the results from Trend Micro’s first half 2021 biannual Cyber Risk Index report...

Updated XCSSET Malware Targets Telegram, Other Apps

In our last update on the XCSSET campaign, we updated some of its features targeting latest macOS 11 Big Sur. Since then, the campaign added more features to its toolset, which we have continually monitored. We have also discovered the mechanism used to steal information from various apps, a...

HIPAA Compliance for the Cloud

Attaining Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA compliance is critical for any business that must protect electronic personal health information ePHI, especially when data is stored and processed in the cloud. This is an introduction to the protection of that data...

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 ...

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...

Principles of a Cloud Migration

Development and application teams can be the initial entry point of a cloud migration as they start looking at faster ways to accelerate value delivery. One of the main things they might use during this is “Infrastructure as Code,” where they are creating cloud resources for running their...

Trend Micro Guardian: Protecting Your Kids On-the-Go

Some smart devices are not limited to use on the home network; for instance, your child’s mobile phone or tablet. Keeping your kids safe on these on-the-go devices means extending your security policies beyond the home. Trend Micro Home Network Security HNS makes it easy with its complementary ap...

Carrier Grade Security Means … Using Carrier Grade Security

It’s a common mistake in enterprises to copy-paste security solutions from a peer. Strategies can be recycled, but sadly with even very similar businesses almost always have radically different IT and security requirements. I recall one hospital that looked at a nearly identical peer hospital tha...

AV-Comparatives: Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac Provides 100% Malware Protection for Mac Users

Despite popular opinion otherwise, the days have long since passed when Mac users can venture forth on the Internet without having to worry about viruses or ransomware, phishing attacks or dangerous URLs. Though the number of attacks on the Mac are fewer than those on Windows machines because the...

Vibe Hacking: Two AI-Augmented Campaigns Target Government and Financial Sectors in Latin America

TrendAI™ Research has identified two emerging threat campaigns—SHADOW-AETHER-040 and SHADOW-AETHER-064—that use agentic AI to drive intrusion operations against government and financial organizations in Latin America, marking these among the first cases we have observed of AI agents executing...

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...

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...

Social Media Malvertising Campaign Promotes Fake AI Editor Website for Credential Theft

We uncovered a malvertising campaign where the threat actor hijacks social media pages, renames them to mimic popular AI photo editors, then posts malicious links to fake websites...

Worldwide 2023 Email Phishing Statistics and Examples

Explore the need for going beyond built-in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace™ security based on email threats detected in 2023...

Managing Cyber Risk for Under-Pressure CISOs

Overworked CISOs are struggling to deliver the cybersecurity results their organizations expect. Fortunately, there are concrete and practical ways they can make their lives easier—while managing cyber risk effectively...

Decoding Digital Transformation: AI, ML, and RPA in the Modern Era

Explore the first article in this series about AI, ML, and RPA, which aims to demystify and explore the full spectrum of these core technologies...

Cloud Security Predictions at AWS re:Invent 2023

Heading to AWS re:Invent 2023? Don’t miss out on our talk with Melinda Marks, ESG Practice Director for Cybersecurity, about cloud detection and response CDR and what’s trending in cloud security...

Strategic Tips to Optimize Cybersecurity Consolidation

Say goodbye to security silos. Organizations are eager to take advantage of cybersecurity consolidation and make their security environments more manageable. Evolving incrementally and adopting a platform that supports third-party integrations are key to reducing cybersecurity complexity...

Attacks on 5G Infrastructure From User Devices: ASN.1 Vulnerabilities in 5G Cores

In the second part of this series, we will examine how attackers can trigger vulnerabilities by sending control messages masquerading as user traffic to cross over from user plane to control plane...

Azure vs. AWS Developer Tools Guide

Azure vs. AWS — which should you use for your DevOps environment? Discover the differences, similarities, and use cases to make an informed decision...

Intrusion Detection & Prevention Systems Guide

IDPS, IDS, IPS… what’s the difference? Discover key differences between intrusion detection and prevention systems as well as 9 technical and non-technical questions to ask when evaluating vendors...

Malicious AI Tool Ads Used to Deliver Redline Stealer

We’ve been observing malicious advertisement campaigns in Google’s search engine with themes that are related to AI tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT...

Bay Area Bank Collapse and the Cybersecurity Impact

Greg Young, VP of Cybersecurity and CorpDev, discusses what the second-largest bank collapse in U.S. history means for cybersecurity...

Security Patch Management Strengthens Ransomware Defense

With thousands of applications to manage, enterprises need an effective way to prioritize software security patches. That calls for a contextualized, risk-based approach and good overall attack surface risk management...

S4x23 Review Part 1: What's New in OT Security

This blog introduces discussions from S4x23, the ICS security conference in Miami over several posts. The first installment will cover two topics from the academic interviews...

Understanding Jamstack Security

Learn how Jamstack has emerged as a new architectural paradigm for delivering websites and web-based applications with the promise of improved performance, scalability, and security over the traditional server-driven approach to web development...

Detect Azure AD Hybrid Cloud Vulnerabilities

AADInternals is a PowerShell module widely used by administrators for administering Azure Active Directory AD and Microsoft 365 - learn how to protect against their common vulnerabilities...

This Week in Security News - February 18, 2022

SMS PVA services' use of infected Android phones reveals flaws in SMS verification, and 'Russian state-sponsored cyber actors' cited in hacks of U.S. defense contractors...

Trend Micro Cloud One Network Security-as-a-Service

Trend Micro, alongside Amazon Web Services, provides the latest in cloud-native deployment options. We have simplified network security, protecting customers across Virtual Private Clouds VPCs without needing agents to be installed on instances...

Safeguarding against cryptomining attacks

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

Cleaner One Pro Speeds Up Your Mac: Part 1

The Mac has always been pretty easy to use, but even the most ardent Mac supporters know there comes a time when their Mac is no longer new and they notice slowdowns in its performance, particularly after intensive use. They’d like a handy one-stop tool to help them optimize memory and CPU...

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...

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...