Event-Driven Architecture & the Security Implications

This article explores the benefits of event-driven architecture for developers and best practices for mitigating security concerns...

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...

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...

Invitation to a Secret Event: Uncovering Earth Yako’s Campaigns

We detail the intrusion set Earth Yako, attributed to the campaign Operation RestyLink or EneLink. This analysis was presented in full at the JSAC 2023 in January 2023...

6 Ransomware Trends & Evolutions For 2023

In the era of digital transformation, ransomware groups are adapting to changing technology. The next evolution of ransomware could begin with these trends...

Diving into an Old Exploit Chain and Discovering 3 new SIP-Bypass Vulnerabilities

More than two years ago, a researcher, A2nkF demonstrated the exploit chain from root privilege escalation to SIP-Bypass up to arbitrary kernel extension loading. In this blog entry, we will discuss how we discovered 3 more vulnerabilities from the old exploit chain...

Earth Preta Spear-Phishing Governments Worldwide

We break down the cyberespionage activities of advanced persistent threat APT group Earth Preta, observed in large-scale attack deployments that began in March. We also show the infection routines of the malware families they use to infect multiple sectors worldwide: TONEINS, TONESHELL, and PUBLO...

Hack the Real Box: APT41’s New Subgroup Earth Longzhi

We looked into the campaigns deployed by a new subgroup of advanced persistent threat APT group APT41, Earth Longzhi. This entry breaks down the technical details of the campaigns in full as presented at HITCON PEACE 2022 in August...

Attack Surface Management 2022 Midyear Review Part 2

In our 2022 midyear roundup, we examine the most significant trends and incidents that influenced the cybersecurity landscape in the first half of the year...

Addressing Ransomware in Hospitals & Medical Devices

Ransomware attacks have been on the rise in recent years, and hospitals are increasingly becoming targets. In many cases, these attacks can have devastating consequences, disrupting vital services and putting patients' lives at risk...

Top Cloud Security Challenges & How to Beat Them

The ongoing shift of traditional IT functions to the cloud brings new cyber risks for enterprises. Discover three current cloud security challenges and how to prevent them from causing financial, operational, and reputational damage...

Red Teaming to Reduce Cyber Risk

Discover how red teaming can help reduce cyber risk across your ever-expanding digital attack surface...

4 Cybersecurity Budget Management Tips

Learn how CISOs can strategically manage their cybersecurity budget to run more productive cybersecurity teams amid a skills shortage...

Gootkit Loader’s Updated Tactics and Fileless Delivery of Cobalt Strike

Gootkit has been known to use fileless techniques to drop Cobalt Strike and other malicious payloads. Insights from a recent attack reveal updates in its tactics...

Analyzing Penetration-Testing Tools That Threat Actors Use to Breach Systems and Steal Data

We discovered the use of two Python penetration-testing tools, Impacket and Responder, that malicious actors used to compromise systems and exfiltrate data. We share our key findings in this report...

Brand-New HavanaCrypt Ransomware Poses as Google Software Update App, Uses Microsoft Hosting Service IP Address as C&C Server

We recently found a new ransomware family, which we have dubbed as HavanaCrypt, that disguises itself as a legitimate Google Software Update application and uses a Microsoft web hosting service IP address as its command-and-control C&C server to circumvent detection...

How to Present Cloud Risk to the Board

Trend Micro Security Researcher, Erin Sindelar, breaks down three popular types of cloud risk assessments to help CISOs and security leaders better explain cyber risk to the board...

Why It’s Time to Map the Digital Attack Surface

Trend Micro research reveals struggle to control cyber risks against mounting digital attack surfaces...

Cyber Risk Management Strategies from Arjo CIO

Andrea Berg, CIO of Arjo, explores the critical need for effective and inclusive communication around IT requirements to expand beyond the security team and improve cyber risk management...

Fake Mobile Apps Steal Facebook Credentials, Cryptocurrency-Related Keys

We recently observed a number of apps on Google Play designed to perform malicious activities such as stealing user credentials and other sensitive user information, including private keys...

New Partner Bit Discovery Helps TM with Attack Surface

We’re excited to partner with Bit Discovery, bringing attack surface discovery capabilities to the Trend Micro One platform, providing ongoing visibility to internal assets devices, identities, applications but also external, internet-facing assets...

3 Remote Work Security Tips for CISOs

How can CISOs manage remote work security? Explore 3 tips to secure networks, endpoints, and users...

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...

Groups Target Alibaba ECS Instances for Cryptojacking

We looked at how some malicious groups disable features in Alibaba Cloud ECS instances for illicit mining of Monero...

Our vision for a cybersecurity platform

Trend Micro co-founder and CEO Eva Chen discusses our latest vision, strategy, and cybersecurity platform approach at Perspectives 2021...

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 Against Recent Ransomware Attacks

Modern ransomware attacks targeting large enterprises continue to evolve from double to triple or even quadruple extortion tactics. Discover how to stay one step ahead with our case study of the ransomware family, Nefilim...

The creation and success of a documentation site

Gain a better understanding of why collaboration between developers and writers is necessary to create a successful documentation site...

Top Tips For Home Cybersecurity And Privacy In A Coronavirus-Impacted World (Part 2)

The past few months have seen radical changes to our work and home life under the Coronavirus threat, upending norms and confining millions of American families within just four walls. In this context, it’s not surprising that more of us are spending an increasing portion of our lives online. But...

Ransomware is Still a Blight on Business

Ransomware is Still a Blight on Business Trends come and go with alarming regularity in cybersecurity. Yet a persistent menace over the past few years has been ransomware. Now mainly targeting organizations rather than consumers, and with increasingly sophisticated tools and tactics at their...

Not Just Good Security Products, But a Good Partner

The analyst firm Canalys annually produces their Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix. Whereas many third-party assessments are looking at just the security product, this one focuses on the value to channel partners. Sidebar: what is the channel? If you aren’t actively buying or selling cybersecurity...

Which specific malware trends should American businesses be prepared for?

In 2017, more than 700 million malware specimens were discovered. In this type of environment, it can be a considerable challenge for enterprises to keep up with the ever-changing threat landscape and ensure their internal protections are sufficient for safeguarding their most critical IT assets...

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...

Tradition and Technology: Trend Micro Takes to the Water for Dragon Boat Challenge

At Trend Micro, we’re used to fighting it out against a constant barrage of cyber threats facing our customers. But we don’t just want to be number one in cybersecurity: We’re also highly competitive elsewhere. As a company proud of our East Asian links we’re keen Dragon Boat racers, and guess...

Agentic Governance: Why It Matters Now

AI agents now act inside the trust boundary with real credentials, and agentic governance is what keeps them from quietly breaking things at machine speed...

Axios NPM Package Compromised: Supply Chain Attack Hits JavaScript HTTP Client with 100M+ Weekly Downloads

A supply chain attack hit Axios when attackers used stolen npm credentials to publish malicious versions containing a phantom dependency. This triggered a cross-platform RAT during installation and replaced its files with clean decoys, making detection challenging...

What’s your CNAPP maturity?

More and more enterprises are opting for cloud-native application protection platforms CNAPPs instead of complex and hard-to-manage cloud security point solutions. Find out where your organization is on its CNAPP maturity journey...

ISPM & ITDR Synergize for AI-Based Identity Security

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

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...

Trend Micro and INTERPOL Join Forces Again for Operation Synergia

Trend and other private entities recently contributed to INTERPOL’s Operation Synergia, a global operation that successfully took down over 1,000 C&C servers and identified suspects related to phishing, banking malware, and ransomware activity...

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...

Accelerating into 2024 with NEOM McLaren Formula E Team

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How to Prevent Ransomware as a Service (RaaS) Attacks

Explore key insights on how ransomware as a service RaaS operators work and how to prevent ransomware attacks...

3 Strategic Insights from Cybersecurity Leader Study

Explore the results of a Sapio Research survey commissioned by Trend Micro about how CISOs and other technology leaders are overcoming today’s biggest challenges...

Qakbot Takedown: The Road Ahead is Long and Winding

A long and challenging journey against cybercrime around the world...

4 Generative AI Security Benefits

It may be some time before generative AI security can autonomously mitigate cyber threats, but we’re already seeing early examples of how AI models can strengthen enterprise cybersecurity in powerful and transformative ways...

Detecting BPFDoor Backdoor Variants Abusing BPF Filters

An analysis of advanced persistent threat APT group Red Menshen’s different variants of backdoor BPFDoor as it evolves since it was first documented in 2021...

Hunting for A New Stealthy Universal Rootkit Loader

In this entry, we discuss the findings of our investigation into a piece of a signed rootkit, whose main binary functions as a universal loader that enables attackers to directly load a second-stage unsigned kernel module...

To Fight Cyber Extortion and Ransomware, Shift Left

How can organizations defend themselves more effectively against ransomware and other forms of cyber extortion? By “shifting left” and adopting proactive cybersecurity strategies to detect attacks sooner, mitigating breaches before they cause harm...

Impulse Team’s Massive Years-Long Mostly-Undetected Cryptocurrency Scam

We have been able to uncover a massive cryptocurrency scam involving more than a thousand websites handled by different affiliates linked to a program called Impulse Project, run by a threat actor named Impulse Team...