SOC Around the Clock: World Tour Survey Findings

Trend surveyed 750 cybersecurity professionals in 49 countries to learn more about the state of cybersecurity, from job pressures to the need for more advanced tools. Explore what SOC teams had to say...

Fake LockBit, Real Damage: Ransomware Samples Abuse AWS S3 to Steal Data

This article uncovers a Golang ransomware abusing AWS S3 for data theft, and masking as LockBit to further pressure victims. The discovery of hard-coded AWS credentials in these samples led to AWS account suspensions...

A SANS's 2024 Threat-Hunting Survey Review

In its ninth year, the annual SANS Threat Hunting Survey delves into global organizational practices in threat hunting, shedding light on the challenges and adaptations in the landscape over the past year...

Trend Micro Collaborated with Interpol in Cracking Down Grandoreiro Banking Trojan

In this blog entry, we discuss Trend Micro's contributions to an Interpol-coordinated operation to help Brazilian and Spanish law enforcement agencies analyze malware samples of the Grandoreiro banking trojan...

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...

Exploring Changing SOC Landscapes

The landscape of cybersecurity is continuously evolving, with new threats emerging and the roles and responsibilities of security professionals constantly adapting...

Trend Micro’s Bug Bounty Program ZDI 2023 Performance

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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...

Web Security Expands into Secure Service Edge (SSE)

Trend has been securing web access for over a decade with forward-looking innovation and a global footprint to support our customer’s security strategy. We are committed to our customers’ journey of transforming their current security posture, aligning with Zero Trust principles, and embracing a...

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...

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...

RedLine/Vidar Abuses EV Certificates, Shifts to Ransomware

In this blog, we investigate how threat actors used information-stealing malware with EV code signing certificates and later delivered ransomware payloads to its victims via the same delivery method...

Managing Cyber Risk for CISOs Under Pressure

Overworked CISOs are struggling to deliver the cybersecurity results their organizations expect. Fortunately, there are concrete and practical ways they can make their lives easier—while managing cyber risk effectively...

How Zero Trust and XDR Work Together

As the Zero Trust approach gains momentum, more organizations are looking to apply it to their security strategy. Learn how XDR and Zero Trust work together to enhance your security posture...

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...

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...

4 Cybersecurity Budget Management Tips

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

When is it time for a cyber hygiene audit?

Cyber hygiene is crucial for keeping your organization safe by limiting security breaches, threats against your IT infrastructure, and more. Read on to learn more about what makes up cyber hygiene, and how to audit its effectiveness...

Managed XDR Investigation of Ducktail in Trend Vision One™

The Trend Micro Managed XDR team investigated several Ducktail-related web browser credential dumping incidents involving different customers...

Fighting mercenaries with the Cybersecurity Tech Accord

Trend Micro co-Authors Cyber Mercenary Principles to help guide the technology industry and others in dealing with the growing market of cyber mercenaries...

Phishing as a Service Stimulates Cybercrime

With phishing attacks at an all-time high, phishing as a service PhaaS is turning this once-skilled practice into a pay-to-play industry. Understanding the latest attack tactics is critical to improving your email security strategy...

Common Cloud Configuration Errors & Fixes

Cloud configuration errors are a major concern for modern DevOps teams, introducing a new attack surface with numerous potential points of vulnerability. Read on to discover some of the most common errors and learn how to resolve them...

Ransomware Revolution: 4 Types of Cyber Risks in 2023

The ransomware business model is poised to change. These four predictions could help to keep your organization secure from new forms of cyber extortion...

Cyber Security Managed Services 101

MSP partnerships are growing in line with rapid cloud migration and the evolving threat landscape. Discover how an MSP can help your business and tips for making an informed partner decision...

Ransomware Recovery Plan for 2023

It’s important to defend against ransomware attacks, but is your organization prepared to deal with the consequences of a breach? Find out how to plan an effective ransomware recovery strategy...

Vice Society Ransomware Group Targets Manufacturing Companies

In this blog entry, we’d like to highlight our findings on Vice Society, which includes an end-to-end infection diagram that we were able to create using Trend Micro internal telemetry...

Cyber Hygiene: How to get buy-in from employees

Good cyber hygiene starts with buy-in across the enterprise. Discover how CISOs can establish a company-wide security culture to reduce risk...

Agenda Ransomware Uses Rust to Target More Vital Industries

This year, various ransomware-as-a-service groups have developed versions of their ransomware in Rust, including Agenda. Agenda's Rust variant has targeted vital industries like its Go counterpart. In this blog, we will discuss how the Rust variant works...

Protect Your Network with Zero-Day Threat Protection

Explore the world of zero-day threats and gain valuable insight into the importance of proactive detection and remediation. Learn how Trend Micro™ Research mitigates risk by providing global cybersecurity intelligence to continuously discover the ever-changing attack surface, understand and...

How a Unified Security Platform Protects the Cloud

Massive growth in cloud use has increased the enterprise attack surface. Addressing the risks with specialized point solutions is unwieldy, complex and can leave vulnerability gaps—driving many companies to seek a unified cyber security platform...

Massive Phishing Campaigns Target India Banks’ Clients

We found five banking malware families targeting customers of seven banks in India to steal personal and credit card information via phishing campaigns...

Latest on OpenSSL 3.0 Critical Bug & Security-Fix

Potential disruptions following vulnerabilities found in OpenSSL...

CIEM vs CWPP vs CSPM

This article will explore three solutions, CIEM, CWPP, and CSPM, detail a sample case for each, and help you to determine when and how to use them—whether individually or in conjunction with one another...

Detect Threats with Runtime Security

With the increasing use of multi-cloud infrastructure services security has become more complex. You need simplified security for your cloud-native applications with advanced container image scanning, policy-based admission control, and container runtime protection...

Oil and Gas Cybersecurity: Industry Overview Part 1

With geopolitical tensions running high, oil and gas companies may be more susceptible to cyberattacks...

Well-Architected Framework: Sustainability

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...

Cuba Ransomware Group’s New Variant Found Using Optimized Infection Techniques

Trend Micro Research observed the resurgence of the Cuba ransomware group that launched a new malware variant using different infection techniques compared to past iterations. We discuss our initial findings in this report...

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...

New Linux-Based Ransomware Cheerscrypt Targets ESXi Devices

Trend Micro Research detected “Cheerscrypt”, a new Linux-based ransomware variant that compromises ESXi servers. We discuss our initial findings on in this report...

Sandstone CTO shares how to assess cyber risk in the cloud

Chaitanya Pinnamanemi discusses how visibility and prioritization are key to securing your digital attack surface and reducing cyber risk...

TM Named CWS "Strong Performer" in Forrester Wave 2022

Trend Micro was named a strong performer in the Forrester Wave™: Cloud Workload Security, Q1 2022, achieving the highest possible score in the market presence category. That said, Trend Micro Cloud One secures far more than workloads and containers...

This Week in Security News - March 25, 2022

An investigation of cryptocurrency scams and schemes, and Lapsus$: Oxford teen accused of being multi-millionaire cyber-criminal...

New Nokoyawa Ransomware Possibly Related to Hive

In March 2022, we came across evidence that another, relatively unknown, ransomware known as Nokoyawa is likely connected with Hive, as the two families share some striking similarities in their attack chain, from the tools used to the order in which they execute various steps...

Will Russian Oil Ban Spur Increased Cyber-Attacks

President Biden banned the sale of Russian oil to the United States to deprive the Putin regime of the economic resources needed to wage war. But this may put US companies in the firing line of cyber-attacks from the east...

New RURansom Wiper Targets Russia

We analyze RURansom, a malware variant discovered to be targeting Russia. Originally suspected to be a ransomware because of its name, analysis reveals RURansom to be a wiper...

SMS PVA Part 3: Countries Most Impacted by Service

In this final part, we discuss the countries most affected by SMS PVA services as well as lay out several recommendations to mitigate the risks of such threats...

SMS PVA Part 1: Underground Service for Cybercriminals

In this three-part blog entry, our team explored SMS PVA, a service built on top of a global bot network that compromises smartphone cybersecurity as we know it...

What is a cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP)?

We explore CNAPP, the latest industry acronym coined by the Gartner report Innovation Insight for Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms, and why devs need to know about it...

This Week in Security News - January 7th, 2022

This week, read about Log4j vulnerabilities in connected cars and charging stations and how iOS malware can fake iPhone shutdowns to snoop on cameras and microphones...

This Week in Security News - December 17, 2021

This week, read on Purple Fox’s infection chain observed by Trend Micro’s Managed XDR. Also, learn about the Log4j vulnerability that has the potential to cause ‘incalculable’ damage...