S4x22: ICS Security Creates the Future

The ICS Security Event S4 was held for the first time in two years, bringing together more than 800 business leaders and specialists from around the world to Miami Beach on 19-21 Feb 2022. The theme was CREATE THE FUTURE...

Adding Guardrails To A Cloud Account After The Fact

This article outlines a priority checklist of which guardrails need to be applied to an existing cloud account. Answering questions like, can these guardrails be implemented without breaking anything? What level of testing is required?...

Examining the Black Basta Ransomware’s Infection Routine

We analyze the Black Basta ransomware and examine the malicious actor’s familiar infection tactics...

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...

Recent Cyberattacks Target Open-source Web Servers

Malicious actors take advantage of people’s reliance on web servers to perform attacks like remote code execution, access control bypass, denial of service, or even cyberjacking the victim servers to mine cryptocurrencies...

A Cloud Native Application Protection Platform Guide

In this article we explore CNAPP, the latest industry acronym coined by Gartner, and why devs need to know about it...

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 ...

Organized Cybercrime Cases: What CISOs Need to Know

Jon Clay, VP of Threat Intelligence at Trend Micro, explores the latest Trend Micro Research covering Access as a Service AaaS, an emerging business model selling all-access passes to other malicious actors...

Top 5 DevOps Resource Center Articles of 2021

We look back on the 5 most popular DevOps Resource Center articles in 2021 to help you build at your best in 2022...

How to detect Apache HTTP Server Exploitation

With recent news of the critical, zero-day vulnerability Apache Log4Shell, we explore how to detect and protect your Apache HTTP servers...

Oracle WebLogic Detection and Mitigation

We review 2020 and 2021 Oracle WebLogic vulnerabilities and how using a unified SaaS platform can help you detect and mitigate these sophisticated risks...

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...

N-Day Exploit Protection Strategies

Over two years, Trend Micro Research scoured the underground forums for insight into the N-day exploit market. Discover their findings and how you can secure your organization against exploits...

Demo: How to Build a Container Registry from a Container

What came first the container or the container registry? Find out and learn how to build, run, and scan your very own container registry from a container itself on your laptop...

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...

Curb Your Cyber Risk

Global cyber risk is at an all-time high. Understand how you can lower yours...

Nefilim Ransomware Attack Through a MITRE Att&ck Lens

Follow the story of Company X as they suffer an attack from the notorious modern ransomware family, Nefilim, and their affiliates, to learn how you can better mitigate against the common tactic and techniques used in these attacks...

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...

Top Tips For Home Cybersecurity And Privacy In A Coronavirus-Impacted World (Part 1)

Welcome to the new normal. We’re all now living in a post-COVID-19 world characterized by uncertainty, mass home working and remote learning. The lines demarcating normal life have shifted abruptly – perhaps never to return. That’s not the worst that can happen, as we all know, but it does mean w...

Connected Car Standards – Thank Goodness!

Intelligent transportation systems ITS require harmonization among manufacturers to have any chance of succeeding in the real world. No large-scale car manufacturer, multimodal shipper, or MaaS Mobility as a Service provider will risk investing in a single-vendor solution. Successful ITS require...

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...

AI and Machine Learning: Boosting Compliance and Preventing Spam

Some of the most advanced strategies in the current technology and analytics spaces include artificial intelligence and machine learning. These innovative approaches can hold nearly endless possibilities for technological applications: from the ability to eliminate manual work and enable software...

Don’t be a Coinmining Zombie – Part 2: How Do You Protect Yourself from being Cryptojacked?

Safe behaviors to protect yourself from cryptojacking follow the familiar rules you should adhere to every day to protect yourself against viruses, worms, bots, and malware, including ransomware, which are typically pushed to you through phishing techniques and social engineering: | Strengthen yo...

Trend Micro at HiMSS: Protecting Healthcare Organizations with Optimized, Connected Security

Submitted by Elie Nasrallah , Director – Cyber Security Strategy The healthcare industry remains one of the most frequently targeted sectors in the United States. It accounted for nearly a quarter 23% of all breaches reported in 2017, second only to the business category, in another record year f...

How Hackers Are Leveraging Machine Learning

For business executives and internal information security specialists, it seems that every day brings a new potential risk to the company - and in the current threat environment, it isn't hard to understand this viewpoint. Sophisticated cybercriminals are continually on the lookout for the next b...

FIRST and Beyond – a History of Elevating Research through Partnerships

At the FIRST conference in San Juan, Trend Micro’s Forward-looking Threat Research team will be presenting four sessions on a wide range of topics. These sessions will demonstrate a sliver of the research going on at Trend Micro, and some of the partnerships that elevate the research to benefit t...

13M+ Emails Sent in Tech Support Scam Targeting Users, Organizations in Japan

We analyzed a sustained tech support scam campaign that sent more than 13 million emails to Japanese addresses, with workplace-themed lures suggesting a possible expansion toward enterprise targets...

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...

Introducing ÆSIR: Finding Zero-Day Vulnerabilities at the Speed of AI

TrendAI™’s ÆSIR platform combines AI automation with expert oversight to discover zero-day vulnerabilities in AI infrastructure – 21 CVEs across NVIDIA, Tencent, and MLflow since mid-2025...

RondoDox: From Targeting Pwn2Own Vulnerabilities to Shotgunning Exploits

Trend™ Research and ZDI Threat Hunters have identified a large-scale RondoDox botnet campaign exploiting over 50 vulnerabilities across more than 30 vendors, including flaws first seen in Pwn2Own contests...

Albabat Ransomware Group Potentially Expands Targets to Multiple OS, Uses GitHub to Streamline Operations

Trend Research encounters new versions of the Albabat ransomware, which appears to target Windows, Linux, and macOS devices. We also reveal the group’s use of GitHub to streamline their ransomware operation...

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...

Tracking the Progression of Earth Hundun's Cyberespionage Campaign in 2024

This report describes how Waterbear and Deuterbear — two of the tools in Earth Hundun's arsenal — operate, based on a campaign from 2024...

18X a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for EPP

Explore why Trend Micro is recognized—for the 18th time—as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms...

Analyzing AsyncRAT's Code Injection into aspnet_compiler.exe Across Multiple Incident Response Cases

This blog entry delves into MxDR's unraveling of the AsyncRAT infection chain across multiple cases, shedding light on the misuse of aspnetcompiler.exe, a legitimate Microsoft process originally designed for precompiling ASP.NET web applications...

Modern Attack Surface Management for CISOs

Today’s attack surface requires modern processes and security solutions. Explore the tenants of modern attack surface management ASM and what CISOs need to look for in an ASM solution...

Accelerating into 2024 with NEOM McLaren Formula E Team

Learn more about how Trend is engineering innovation and resiliency with NEOM McLaren Formula E Team in 2024 and beyond...

Void Rabisu Targets Female Political Leaders with New Slimmed-Down ROMCOM Variant

Almost a year after Void Rabisu shifted its targeting from opportunistic ransomware attacks with an emphasis on cyberespionage, the threat actor is still developing its main malware, the ROMCOM backdoor...

IT & OT security: How to Bridge the Gap

Connecting IT and OT environments can give industrial organizations powerful efficiencies, but it also introduces cybersecurity challenges. A new Trend Micro/SANS Institute report gets at the heart of those IT and OT security issues—and how to address them...

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...

Cybersecurity Threat 1H 2023 Brief with Generative AI

How generative AI influenced threat trends in 1H 2023...

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...

The XDR Payoff: Better Security Posture

As the extended detection and response XDR market grows and evolves, it’s a great opportunity to learn about the positive outcomes like better security posture experienced by organizations that have invested in these capabilities...

How to Deploy Generative AI Safely and Responsibly

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

How to Write a Cybersecurity Policy for Generative AI

Just months after hitting the scene, generative AI already seems like it will become a permanent addition to the enterprise IT toolbox. For CISOs, the pressure is on to roll out AI security policies and technologies that can mitigate very real and present risks...

GraphQL vs gRPC: Which One Creates More Secure APIs?

Learn about the security capabilities of GraphQL and gRPC, how they perform authentication/authorization, and how they compare to REST. In addition, discover common attack vectors for both API frameworks and how to prevent them...

Guide to Serverless Architecture Design Patterns

Discover the power of serverless architecture design patterns for scalable and efficient application development. Explore EDA, pub-sub, fan-out/fan-in, strangler, and saga patterns. Learn how to select, implement, and optimize them for your needs...

Abusing Web Services Using Automated CAPTCHA-Breaking Services and Residential Proxies

This blog entry features three case studies that show how malicious actors evade the antispam, antibot, and antiabuse measures of online web services via residential proxies and CAPTCHA-breaking services...

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...

Establishing a Proactive Cybersecurity Plan

To help organizations shift security left, Greg Young, Vice President of Cybersecurity and CorpDev at Trend Micro and Andy Anderson, DataStream CEO and Co-Founder, discuss how IT decision makers can educate the board with a proactive cybersecurity plan...