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...

How cryptocurrency is shaping today’s threat environment

Cryptocurrency has exploded as a popular way to support digital transactions. Since its creation, users have discovered an array of different ways to leverage cryptocurrency, including within mining strategies and digital wallets. Expanded use cases and interest helped propel the value of digital...

This Week in Security News: Warnings and WannaCry

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're following Ikea's job marketplace, TaskRabbit, which may have suffered a data breach. Also, the U.S and U.K warn against Russian cyber...

This Week in Security News: Magic Quadrants & Global Threats

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, Gartner released its Magic Quadrant Leaders, Data Privacy Day gave us a moment to reflect, and U.K. and U.S. governments alike acted to...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of January 1, 2018

Happy New Year! It’s out with the old, in with the new, right? Except we all know that the old tends to stick around, especially when it comes to vulnerabilities and patching them. Trend Micro predicts that that 2018’s biggest attacks will originate from known vulnerabilities. And speaking of kno...

How GDPR will impact businesses outside of the EU

Cyber attacks are consistently making headlines, impacting businesses and individuals alike as hackers look to steal sensitive data and make a quick payday. Techniques are becoming more sophisticated to avoid detection, convince users to download malicious files and extort businesses into paying ...

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...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of June 5, 2017

This week marked the first time an airline misplaced my bags for a significant period of time. Inclement weather forced me to not only change my flight, but also change airlines. Unfortunately, my luggage didn’t get the memo. I dealt with two airlines to find my bags, and I eventually received my...

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...

Teaming Up with HITRUST to Raise Cybersecurity Standards in Healthcare

From cash-hungry hackers to state-sponsored spies and careless insiders, there’s no shortage of cyber threats facing healthcare organizations HCOs today. At Trend Micro, we’ve been protecting organizations operating in the industry for years, but the challenges facing these customers show no sign...

Inside the OpenAI – Hugging Face Incident: The AI Breach With No Human Attacker Behind It

OpenAI’s own models broke out of a test sandbox and into Hugging Face’s servers to solve an evaluation, with no human attacker involved. The incident showed how keeping agentic AI safe now depends on how it’s contained, not just on how it’s trained...

Analyzing Void Dokkaebi’s Cython-Compiled InvisibleFerret Malware

Void Dokkaebi, a North Korea-aligned intrusion set, has updated its information-stealing malware, InvisibleFerret, shifting its delivery format to evade script-based detections...

U.S. Public Sector Under Siege: Threat Intelligence for Q1 2026

The first quarter of 2026 has reinforced a hard truth: U.S. government agencies and educational institutions are operating in the most hostile cyber threat environment ever recorded...

Critical Langflow Vulnerability (CVE-2025-3248) Actively Exploited to Deliver Flodrix Botnet

This blog uncovers an active campaign exploiting CVE-2025-3248 in Langflow versions before 1.3.0 that deploys the Flodrix botnet, enabling threat actors to achieve full system compromise, initiate DDoS attacks, and potentially exfiltrate sensitive data...

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...

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...

The Dynamic DoS Threat

ENISA Report Unveils a Complex Cyber Landscape...

Against the Clock: Cyber Incident Response Plan

Conventional wisdom says most organizations will experience a cybersecurity breach at some point—if they haven’t already. That makes having a ready-to-launch incident response process crucial when an attack is detected, as this fictionalized scenario shows...

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...

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...

Ex-USSS CISO Explains Agencies' Struggle with Biden EO

Ed Cabrera, former CISO of the US Secret Service and current Chief Cybersecurity Officer for Trend Micro, explains why Federal agencies are slow to comply with Biden's cybersecurity executive order...

An Overview of the New Rhysida Ransomware Targeting the Healthcare Sector

In this blog entry, we will provide details on Rhysida, including its targets and what we know about its infection chain...

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...

How to Leverage AWS Performance Efficiency Pillar

Explore the Performance Efficiency pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and discover how to create performance efficiency in the compute, storage, database, and network elements of cloud infrastructures...

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...

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...

How to Deploy Generative AI Safely and Responsibly

New uses for generative AI are being introduced every day—but so are new risks...

S4x23 Review Part 2: Evolving Energy Cybersecurity

In this second report on S4x23 held last February, this article introduces the discussion on cyber security in the energy industry, which was one of the topics that attracted attention...

Research Exposes Azure Serverless Security Blind Spots

Simulation uncovers hidden features and urges greater user awareness...

LV Ransomware Exploits ProxyShell in Attack on a Jordan-based Company

Our blog entry provides a look at an attack involving the LV ransomware on a Jordan-based company from an intrusion analysis standpoint...

Data Distribution Service: An Overview Part 1

In this three-part blog series, we’ll look into Data Distribution Service, why it is critical, and how you can mitigate risks associated with it...

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...

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...

An In-Depth Look at ICS Vulnerabilities Part 2

In part two of our three-part series, we continue to analyze vulnerabilities using MITRE ATT&CK. We also look into the sectors affected and their risk levels...

LoRaWAN's Protocol Stacks: The Forgotten Targets at Risk

This report is the fourth part of our LoRaWAN security series, and highlights an attack vector that, so far, has not attracted much attention: the LoRaWAN stack. The stack is the root of LoRaWAN implementation and security. We hope to help users secure it and make LoRaWAN communication resistant ...

Campaign Abusing Legitimate Remote Administrator Tools Uses Fake Cryptocurrency Websites

We have been tracking a campaign involving the SpyAgent malware that abuses well-known remote access tools RATs for some time now. While previous versions of the malware have been covered by other researchers, our blog entry focuses on the malicious actor’s latest attacks...

India Releases Cybersecurity Guidelines for Power Sector

A first in the sector, the latest scheme aims to enhance cybersecurity readiness and the overall efficiency of the country’s distribution companies...

Fake Installers Drop Malware and Open Doors for Opportunistic Attackers

We recently spotted fake installers of popular software being used to deliver bundles of malware onto victims’ devices. These installers are widely used lures that trick users into opening malicious documents or installing unwanted applications...

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...

How to Secure AWS Cloud Storage

Discover how to quickly install and integrate Trend Micro Cloud One with Amazon Web Services AWS...

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...

Beyond the Endpoint: Why Organizations are Choosing XDR for Holistic Detection and Response

The endpoint has long been a major focal point for attackers targeting enterprise IT environments. Yet increasingly, security bosses are being forced to protect data across the organization, whether it’s in the cloud, on IoT devices, in email, or on-premises servers. Attackers may jump from one...

Knowing your shared security responsibility in Microsoft Azure and avoiding misconfigurations

Trend Micro is excited to launch new Trend Micro Cloud One – Conformity capabilities that will strengthen protection for Azure resources. As with any launch, there is a lot of new information, so we decided to sit down with one of the founders of Conformity, Mike Rahmati. Mike is a technologist a...

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...

PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY – Part 2: How to Maximize Your Privacy on Social Media and in Your Browser

In the last post we highlighted the privacy risks associated with using popular social networking sites and browsers. You might not appreciate just how much of your personal data is being accessed by advertisers and other third parties via your social media accounts and internet browsing...

WannaCry Highlights Major Security Shortcomings Ahead of GDPR D-Day

For all the panic it caused, WannaCry looks finally to have been contained by organisations round the globe. But this isn’t the time to forget about it and move on. There are valuable lessons to be learned about this attack, why it was so successful and what can be done to prevent it happening...

Quasar Linux (QLNX) – A Silent Foothold in the Supply Chain: Inside a Full-Featured Linux RAT With Rootkit, PAM Backdoor, Credential Harvesting Capabilities

TrendAI™ Research breaks down Quasar Linux QLNX, a previously undocumented sophisticated Linux RAT with low detection rates. In this blog, we examine a full-featured Linux threat incorporating a rootkit, a PAM backdoor, credential harvesting, and more, revealing how this malware enables stealthy...

Critical React Server Components Vulnerability CVE-2025-55182: What Security Teams Need to Know

CVE-2025-55182 is a critical CVSS 10.0 pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability affecting React Server Components used in React.js, Next.js, and related frameworks see the context section for a more exhaustive list of affected frameworks...