Create Efficient Well-Architected Cloud Infrastructure

This article explores the Performance Efficiency pillar of the Amazon Web Services and Azure Well-Architected Framework. We will examine how to create performance efficiency in the compute, storage, database, and network elements of cloud infrastructures...

Digital Transformation Insights for Security Leaders

Digital transformation, especially in the cloud, is changing the way we solve problems. With new services, tools, and techniques surfacing every day, how do you navigate through it all?...

Securing Weak Points in Serverless Architectures

The big shift to serverless computing is imminent. Gain insights on the security considerations and recommendations for serverless environments that can help ensure your serverless deployments are secure...

Essential Strategies for Securing Smart Factories

With Industry 4.0, manufacturing organizations need to recognize the unique threats and risks facing them, and strategize towards addressing them...

How to Clear the Cache on Your Mac

Have you ever wondered why your Mac is running slow? Does it freeze when performing even just the simplest of tasks? Does it take a while to launch and switch programs? Everybody has gone through this excruciating pain at least once. Even though the Mac is known to be a high-performance machine, ...

PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY – Part 1: The Privacy Risks of Social Networks and Online Browsing

Most Americans today spend many of their waking hours online. In fact, we’re up to spending an average of five hours per day just on our mobiles. Much of this time is spent browsing the web or checking in, updating and sharing via our favorite social networks. There’s just one problem: unless you...

Sharing the Journey to GDPR Compliance

Customer data is everything at Trend Micro. As a global cybersecurity leader, protecting customer data is what we do for a living, which is why it’s important for us to put into practice what we talk to our customers about. As a demonstration of our commitment to protecting our millions of...

Security Glue Between the Silos of Endpoint, Server, Cloud and Network Security Gets More Critical

Endpoint and Host security techniques have diverged. There used to be considerable similarity between the techniques and tools used to secure desktops, servers, and even networks. Desktops evolved to become Endpoints, as mobile devices proliferated and they were assembled into a collective of bei...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of January 29, 2018

Late last year, Trend Micro introduced its Security Predictions for 2018. One of the predictions stated that digital extortion will be at the core of most cybercriminals’ business model. It’s much more than just ransomware – it is the most successful criminal business model in the current threat...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of December 18, 2017

In the 2000 movie High Fidelity, the concept of making lists is a dominant focus. What are your top five favorite records? Top five side one, track ones? Top five dream jobs? In the movie, Rob Gordon, portrayed by John Cusack, decides to categorize his top five most memorable breakups in order to...

12 Threats of Christmas

We've all heard the old classic, "The 12 Days of Christmas." While we all enjoy a good song about a partridge in a pear tree, Trend Micro has updated this seasonal standby, counting down the top threats to be aware of heading into 2018, from least to most pressing. Let's look at the vulnerabiliti...

Ransomware Updates: Newest Threats, Protection Best Practices

Ransomware has consistently been in the spotlight since attacks first began emerging a few years ago. Now that new and powerful samples like WannaCry are being used to infiltrate large-scale organizations, ransomware continues to grab headlines. According to Trend Micro, one of the latest...

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...

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...

Volume Is Not Risk: Making Sense of the “Vulnpocalypse”

A briefing for security leaders on separating vulnerability disclosure volume from exploitable risk in 2026...

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...

New BoryptGrab Stealer Targets Windows Users via Deceptive GitHub Pages

The BoryptGrab campaign uses fake SEO‑optimized GitHub repositories and deceptive download pages to distribute a data‑stealing malware family that delivers multiple payloads, including a reverse SSH backdoor, to Windows users...

Embracing Choice in Cybersecurity: TrendAI Vision One™ and SentinelOne Integration

Discover how the TrendAI Vision One and SentinelOne integration exemplifies our commitment to endpoint flexibility...

Key Insights on SHADOW-AETHER-015 and Earth Preta from the 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation with Trend Vision One™

This blog discusses notable modern TTPs observed from SHADOW-AETHER-015 and Earth Preta, from Trend Research™ monitoring and Trend Vision One™ intelligence. These findings support the performance of TrendAI™ in the 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations...

Exploring PLeak: An Algorithmic Method for System Prompt Leakage

What is PLeak, and what are the risks associated with it? We explored this algorithmic technique and how it can be used to jailbreak LLMs, which could be leveraged by threat actors to manipulate systems and steal sensitive data...

Vishing via Microsoft Teams Facilitates DarkGate Malware Intrusion

In this blog entry, we discuss a social engineering attack that tricked the victim into installing a remote access tool, triggering DarkGate malware activities and an attempted C&C connection...

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...

Cyberespionage Group Earth Hundun's Continuous Refinement of Waterbear and Deuterbear

Our blog entry provides an in-depth analysis of Earth Hundun's Waterbear and Deuterbear malware...

AI Auctions: Collectibles, Taylor Swift, Jordan Bots

Discover the fascinating world of AI, ML, and RPA and their real-world applications including the creation of a custom RPA bot for collecting rare sports memorabilia...

What Generative AI Means for Cybersecurity in 2024

After a full year of life with ChatGPT cybersecurity experts have a clearer sense of how criminals are using generative AI to enhance attacks - learn what generative AI means for cybersecurity in 2024...

Unifying Cloud Security Beyond Siloes

Attacks don’t stay in siloes, and neither should your security solutions. Explore the benefits of a cybersecurity platform that consolidates security across multiple layers—including the cloud—for more proactive risk management...

Black Basta-Affiliated Water Curupira’s Pikabot Spam Campaign

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Modern Attack Surface Management (ASM) for SecOps

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

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,...

Forward Momentum: Key Learnings From Trend Micro’s Security Predictions for 2024

In this blog entry, we discuss predictions from Trend Micro’s team of security experts about the drivers of change that will figure prominently in 2024...

Top 4 Emerging Trends in Software Engineering

Explore key takeaways about emerging software engineering trends from Gartner's annual Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit...

Email Security Best Practices for Phishing Prevention

Trend Micro Research reported a 29% growth in phishing attacks blocked and detected in 2022. Explore the latest phishing trends and email security best practices to enhance your email security and reduce cyber risk...

Zero Trust Adoption: Tips to Win Over Leadership

Implementing Zero Trust can be difficult due to outdated systems, employee resistance, and cost. Yet, the benefits outweigh the challenges. It is key to use a platform that combines multiple security technologies to simplify IT and risk assessment, proper planning, and getting security buy-in fro...

TrickBot & Conti Sanctions: Implications for CISOs & Boardrooms

Discover what the increased regulatory risk due to recent US and UK sanctions imposed on TrickBot and Conti cybercriminals mean for CISOs and board members...

How to Protect Your CI/CD Pipeline

Continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment CI/CD has won over app developers, with enterprise cybersecurity teams on the hook to protect CI/CD pipelines. OWASP’s Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks clarify what to watch for...

Top 10 AI Security Risks According to OWASP

The unveiling of the first-ever Open Worldwide Application Security Project OWASP risk list for large language model AI chatbots was yet another sign of generative AI’s rush into the mainstream—and a crucial step toward protecting enterprises from AI-related threats...

The Journey to Zero Trust with Industry Frameworks

Discover the core principles and frameworks of Zero Trust, NIST 800-207 guidelines, and best practices when implementing CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model...

7 Container Security Best Practices For Better Apps

Explore how to implement 7 container security best practices within a CI/CD pipeline built with tools from Amazon Web Services AWS...

How a Cyber Security Platform Addresses the 3 “S”

Explore how a security platform can help organizations address the 3 "S" impacting cybersecurity: stealth, sustainability, and shortage...

Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps for Proper Secret Management

Kubernetes ConfigMaps and Secrets have transformed how you manage containerized applications securely. Read on to learn how ConfigMaps have revolutionized application lifecycle processes by reducing hardcoding efforts and enhancing portability...

Future Exploitation Vector: File Extensions as Top-Level Domains

In this blog entry, we will examine the security risks related to file extension-related Top-Level Domains TLDs while also providing best practices and recommendations on how both individual users and organizations can protect themselves from these hazards...

Info Stealer Abusing Codespaces Puts Discord Users at Risk

In this entry, we detail our research findings on how an info stealer is able to achieve persistence on a victim’s machine by modifying the victim’s Discord client...

Healthcare cybersecurity updated in HIMSS23

This update reports on the current state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry from the CISA’s keynote in Cybersecurity forum of HIMSS23...

Lemon Group’s Cybercriminal Businesses Built on Preinfected Devices

An overview of the Lemon Group’s use of preinfected mobile devices, and how this scheme is potentially being developed and expanded to other internet of things IoT devices. This research was presented in full at the Black Hat Asia 2023 Conference in Singapore in May 2023...

Achieving Cloud Compliance Throughout Your Migration

Part of a secure cloud migration strategy is ensuring compliance of all the moving pieces. Just like your cloud journey, cloud compliance isn’t all about the final destination. Discover how to leverage cloud security tools to ensure compliance is met along the way...

Attack on Security Titans: Earth Longzhi Returns With New Tricks

After months of dormancy, Earth Longzhi, a subgroup of advanced persistent threat APT group APT41, has reemerged using new techniques in its infection routine. This blog entry forewarns readers of Earth Longzhi’s resilience as a noteworthy threat...

Achieving Cloud Compliance Throughout Your Migration

Part of a secure cloud migration strategy is ensuring compliance of all the moving pieces. Just like your cloud journey, cloud compliance isn’t all about the final destination. Discover how to leverage cloud security tools to ensure compliance is met along the way...

Unpacking the Structure of Modern Cybercrime Organizations

We examine three differently sized criminal groups to know how they compare to similarly sized legitimate businesses in terms of how they are organized. We also discuss how threat researchers can use their knowledge of the size and structure of a target criminal organization to aid their...

3 Shifts in the Cyber Threat Landscape

The threat landscape is always changing and these three major shifts are already underway. Learn to recognize them to protect your organization from cyber threats...

Expanding Attack Blueprints: 2022 Annual Cybersecurity Report

In this blog entry, we shine a spotlight on some of the most critical cybersecurity concerns of 2022, which we discuss in full in our annual cybersecurity report, “Rethinking Tactics: 2022 Annual Security Report.”...