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Decrypting What Zero Trust Is, And What It Likely Isn’t
It’s always an indicator of confusion when instead of hearing “I want Q” I’m asked “what is Q?”. In this case the ‘Q’ is Zero Trust. I’ll try and give my best take on what I understand Zero Trust to be. History Repeats Let’s start with the background. Quite a while back the Jericho Forum proposed...
This Week in Security News: Mirai Botnet Exploit Weaponized to Attack IoT Devices via CVE-2020-5902 and Vermont Taxpayers Warned of Data Leak Over the Past Three Years
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 how Trend Micro found an IoT Mirai botnet downloader that can be added to new malware variants to scan for exposed Big-IP boxes f...
Attack The Machines: The lucrative business of ATM malware
Trend Micro and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre EC3 today released a publicly available report on the ATM malware landscape. This builds on the 2016 report that was privately released to financial institutions and law enforcement agencies globally. The report digs into the depth and breadth ...
Which Threats had the Most Impact During the First Half of 2018?
One of the best ways for organizations to shore up their data security efforts and work toward more proactive protection is by examining trends within the threat environment. Taking a look at the strategies for attack, infiltration and infection currently being utilized by hackers can point towar...
This Week in Security News: Unsecured Servers and Vulnerable Processors
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 vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to retrieve data from CPUs and mine cryptocurrency. Read on: May’s Patch Tuesday Include...
This Week in Security News: Toll Fraud & Small Business Struggles
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 why telecommunications fraud has turned into a multi-billion euro criminal industry. Also, understand what cybersecurity struggles sma...
Hello Ransomware Uses Updated China Chopper Web Shell, SharePoint Vulnerability
We discuss the technical features of a Hello ransomware attack, including its exploitation of CVE-2019-0604 and the use of a modified version of the China Chopper web shell...
TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 2, 2017
Have you ever read something online and you read a word as something else? Sometimes the weight of our eyelids makes our eyes deceive us after hours staring at a computer screen. As I stated to read a Zero Day Initiative blog published this week by Simon Zuckerbraun, instead of reading the word...
FormBook Adds Latest Office 365 0-Day Vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) to Its Arsenal
Trend Micro detected a new campaign using a recent version of the known FormBook infostealer. Newer FormBook variants used the recent Office 365 zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2021-40444...
Patch CVE-2023-23397 Immediately: What You Need To Know and Do
We break down the basic information of CVE-2023-23397, the zero-day, zero-touch vulnerability that was rated 9.8 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS scale...
Securing Containers in The AWS Cloud with Trend Micro
Rapid adoption of containers is changing the way that businesses build their applications. Services like Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate let builders focus on solving business problems instead of managing infrastructure. But the move to containers also requires a shift in how you approach...
This Week in Security News: Skimming Attacks and Ransomware
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 how credit card skimming attacks can impact businesses and how ransomware can use software installations to help hide malicious...
TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of December 11, 2017
If you read my weekly blog or follow me on Twitter, you know that I’m a huge sports fan. Unfortunately, when you don’t live in the town of your favorite team, you can be subject to blackout rules. So, my husband and I decided to purchase NFL Sunday Ticket from DirecTV. Fast forward to a couple of...
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...
Earth Zhulong: Familiar Patterns Target Vietnam
In 2022, we discovered Earth Zhulong, a hacking group that has been targeting Vietnam's telecom, technology, and media sectors similar to another well-known threat actor. In this article, we unravel their new tactics, techniques and procedures that they apply on their misdeeds...
This Week in Security News: AWS Outposts Ready Launches With 32 Validated Partners and Staples Hit by a 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, learn about how solutions from 32 Amazon Web Services partners – including Trend Micro – are now available for AWS customers to use with the...
Remote Code Execution 0-Day (CVE-2021-40444) Hits Windows, Triggered Via Office Docs
Microsoft has disclosed the existence of a new zero-day vulnerability that affects multiple versions of Windows. This vulnerability designated as CVE-2021-40444 is currently delivered via malicious Office 365 documents and requires user input to open the file to trigger...
Analyzing Attempts to Exploit the Spring4Shell Vulnerability CVE-2022-22965 to Deploy Cryptocurrency Miners
Recently, we observed attempts to exploit the Spring4Shell vulnerability — a remote code execution bug, assigned as CVE-2022-22965 — by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners...
Collaborating with Law Enforcement to Tackle the Scourge of ATM Attacks
At Trend Micro, we’ve always been keen to collaborate with law enforcement. While we do our best to protect our customers from the latest threats, it’s only with concerted cross-border police action against the perpetrators of these crimes that we can hope to swing the pendulum back in our favor...
Insecure VPNs: Top risks and symptoms that stronger security is needed
Virtual private networks, or VPNs, were created to provide a secure tunnel in which user activity can be carried out in privacy. In this way, VPNs have been utilized by individual users, as well as to support business processes for several years, and their use is only growing. According to curren...
What Enterprise Leaders Should know about Persistent Threats in 2019
Staving off critical threats in the current cybersecurity landscape is a tall order for any size organization. As hackers continually shift and improve upon their attack and breach strategies, IT and security stakeholders must do their best to keep up and remain informed of these trends. This is...
TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of February 12, 2018
Valentine’s Day was earlier this week, and there was so much love in the air. There was also a lot of love in the Trend Micro world as our teams worked diligently to make sure our customers were protected from this month’s bevy of critical vulnerabilities across several vendors. This week, we foc...
This Week in Security News: Ransomware Campaigns and Cryptocurrency Miners
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 continuing cybersecurity attacks targeting small governments. Also, read how XDR, Trend Micro’s newest solution, is more...
PurpleFox Adds New Backdoor That Uses WebSockets
In September 2021, the Trend Micro Managed XDR MDR team looked into suspicious activity related to a PurpleFox operator. Our findings led us to investigate an updated PurpleFox arsenal, which included an added vulnerability CVE-2021-1732 and optimized rootkit capabilities leveraged in their attac...
Google Play and Microsoft Stores Delete Suspected Compromised Apps
Recently, Google Play Store and Microsoft Store both deleted multiple applications from their online stores, because the apps were malicious. Google deleted a total of 29 beauty camera apps from its Play Store, most of which show users pornographic contents or send them to phishing websites. The...
Stalking the Stalkerware
Ever get the feeling you’re being followed? Unfortunately, when it comes to our digital lives, this is increasingly the case. But while we’re all keen to boost our followers on social media, it’s a different matter when it comes to anonymous third parties secretly stalking us online. Yes, we’re...
This Week in Security News: Instagram Hackers and Enterprise 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, learn how a group of hackers is stealing popular Instagram profiles. Also, learn about old and new cybersecurity issues inundated enterprise...
This Week in Security News: Security Predictions and Malware Attacks
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 the span of categories for Trend Micro’s 2019 Security Predictions. Also, learn about a new exploit kit that targets home or sma...
This Week in Security News: Apex One™ Release and Java Usage Tracker Flaws
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, Apex One enters as the evolution of Trend Micro’s endpoint security solution for enterprise. Also, learn about Java Usage Tracker’s new...
TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 16, 2017
Various forms of fuzzing techniques that search for vulnerabilities in software programs have been around for several decades, but it can a tedious task, especially when looking at an entire enterprise application. Earlier this week, Zero Day Initiative ZDI vulnerability researcher Abdul-Aziz...
TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of September 4, 2017
Earlier this week, a ‘severe’ vulnerability was discovered in Apache Struts, an open source framework for developing applications in Java. The vulnerability, CVE-2017-9805, affects all versions of Struts since 2008 and all applications using the framework’s REST plugin are vulnerable. Trend Micro...
Our Exposed World – Old exposures, new attacks
Natasha Hellberg, Senior Threat Researcher FTR With assistance from William Gamazo Sanchez, DSLabs Within the last few days a new player has been introduced into the distribute denial of service DDoS amplification attack world and with it brings the potential for much larger DDoS attacks than wha...
Don’t Let the Vulnera-Bullies Win. Use our free tool to see if you are patched against Vulnerability CVE-2020-0601
So much for a quiet January! By now you must have heard about the new Microsoft® vulnerability CVE-2020-0601, first disclosed by the NSA making it the first Windows bug publicly attributed to the National Security Agency. This vulnerability is found in a cryptographic component that has a range o...
This Week in Security News: How a GIF Can Hack Your Android and Vulnerabilities That Could Put Hospital Networks at Risk
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 smart home devices can be easily hacked and 11 vulnerabilities that could affect medical devices and hospital networks. Also...
This Week in Security News: Hacker Strategies and Spyware Attacks
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 hackers are improving their breach strategies. Also, learn about new spyware attacks via URLs, websites, and mobile apps. Re...
This Week in Security News: BEC Attacks and Botnet Malware
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 the prevalence and impact of BEC attacks. Also, find out how botnet malware can perform remote code execution, DDoS attacks and...
This Week in Security News: Security Vulnerabilities
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 what critical approaches can protect your enterprise business from software vulnerabilities. Also, learn about vulnerabilities in IoT...
A Look at Scan4You and the Counter Antivirus Service Landscape
The concept of antivirus AV scanning within IT security is simple and effective. These programs, which have become part and parcel of typical infrastructure and data protection strategies, scan enterprise networks for known malware signatures and other processes associated with suspicious hacker...
TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 21, 2018
Not that I needed to the reminder, but the influx of emails with the subject line “Updates to our Privacy Policy” from companies that I deal with and some that I’ve never heard of! means that TODAY is the day! The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR has officially taken effect. Originally...
This Week in Security News: Hacker Reports and Router Reboots
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, hackers warn Congress that internet security across software and computer networks are insecure. Also, a malware, dubbed VPNFilter, infected...
CopyKittens Exposed by ClearSky and Trend Micro
CopyKittens is a cyberespionage group that ClearSky has been reporting on since 2015, tracking their attacks on government-related bodies around the world. Trend Micro has supported this research at several points, including for their latest report released today on the group’s vast espionage...
This Week in Security News: IoT Devices Are a Target in Cybercriminal Underground
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 how fileless malware abuses PowerShell. Also, read how Trend Micro researchers are pulling back the curtain on the cybercriminal...
This Week in Security News: Adware and Ransomware
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 an adware that disguised itself as different apps and monitors mobile devices. Also, learn more about the different ransomware...
Patch Now: Apache Log4j Vulnerability Called Log4Shell Actively Exploited
Log4Shell., also known as CVE-2021-44228, was first reported privately to Apache on November 24 and was patched with version 2.15.0 of Log4j on December 9. It affects Apache Struts, Apache Solr, Apache Druid, Elasticsearch, Apache Dubbo, and VMware vCenter...
This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Launches its XDR Center in India and EU Reports 5G Cybersecurity Risks
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 new XDR Center in India that will help solve data sovereignty issues. Also, read about 5G network software use bei...
A Mobile App Scanner is Not Just Another App
Mobile applications assist us mightily with our daily tasks. They increase our productivity with anywhere, anytime, high-functioning tools, and they help us communicate and share information with family members, friends, and co-workers. Every day, the rapidly evolving app market brings us more ap...
This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Research Uncovers the Business Infrastructure of Cybercrime and Apple Launches Security Device Research Program
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 new insights from Trend Micro that look at the market for underground hosting services and where cybercriminals rent the infrastructure...
This Week in Security News: Spam Campaigns and Mobile Malware
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 a mobile malware that infects Android devices by exploiting the vulnerabilities found within the operating system. Also, read...
How hackers have improved their BEC attack methods
Email is increasingly an integral part of global life, but business email compromise BEC attacks could place these communications at risk. Research by The Radicati Group found that 2.9 billion people worldwide will be using email portals by 2019. Each business user will send 126 messages daily by...
Cryptominer z0Miner Uses Newly Discovered Vulnerability CVE-2021-26084 to Its Advantage
Recently, we discovered that the cryptomining trojan z0Miner has been taking advantage of the Atlassian’s Confluence remote code execution RCE vulnerability assigned as CVE-2021-26084, which was disclosed by Atlassian in August...