AI Coding Companions: Comparing AWS, GitHub, & Google

Top cloud vendors and software companies are rolling out AI coding companions that use generative AI to speed up and streamline DevOps. In this blog, we take a look at what some of these new tools have in common, where they differ, and what they mean for cybersecurity...

Generative AI: What Every CISO Needs to Know

New technologies always change the security landscape, but few are likely to have the transformative power of generative AI. As platforms like ChatGPT continue to catch on, CISOs need to understand the unprecedented cybersecurity risks they bring—and what to do about them...

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...

Data Exfiltration Prevention with Zero Trust

Data exposure from SaaS and cloud applications is an increasing risk factor facing businesses today. Discover how SASE capabilities can help prevent data exfiltration, achieve zero trust, and reduce cyber risk across the attack surface...

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...

Developing Story: Information on Attacks Involving 3CX Desktop App

In late March 2023, security researchers revealed that threat actors were actively abusing a popular business communication software from 3CX...

Preventing and Detecting Attacks Involving 3CX Desktop App

In this blog entry, we provide technical details and analysis on the 3CX attacks as they happen. We also discuss available solutions which security teams can maximize for early detection and mitigate the impact of 3CX attacks...

Secure Cloud Migration 101

Cloud migration is a journey, not a destination. Learn the basics of security for making the gradual switch, so you can get the most out of what the cloud has to offer...

S4x23 Review Part 3: Healthcare Cybersecurity Sessions

This article focuses on the healthcare sector. Over the past two years, the healthcare sector has been in a constant state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as widely reported in the media, it has also been threatened by cyberattacks such as ransomware...

Policy as Code vs Compliance as Code

Learn how policy as code and compliance as code differ and how they can help prevent policy and compliance issues. Investigate the critical area of compliance where automation is playing an increasingly important role in IT management...

How to Avoid LDAP Injection Attacks

Discover how to implement preventative measures to avoid dangerous LDAP injection vulnerabilities...

PCI Compliance Requirements Guide

There are many challenges that accompany implementing PCI compliance within your organization. Discover how Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Network Security helps you overcome the complexities of maintaining PCI compliance and audit readiness...

Advantages of the AWS Security Maturity Model

In an era of constant web security threats, learn how the AWS Security Maturity Model can help you enhance your organization’s cloud security. This article outlines tips to apply the model according to your organization’s stage of security maturity...

A Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Guide for Leaders

Discover the benefits of SASE, a network architecture built on zero trust principles, in adopting modern security architectures to reduce cyber risk across the attack surface...

Royal Ransomware Expands Attacks by Targeting Linux ESXi Servers

Ransomware actors have been observed to expand their targets by increasingly developing Linux-based versions. Royal ransomware is following in the same path, a new variant targeting Linux systems emerged and we will provide a technical analysis on this variant in this blog...

TgToxic Malware’s Automated Framework Targets Southeast Asia Android Users

We look into an ongoing malware campaign we named TgToxic, targeting Android mobile users in Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia since July 2022. The malware steals users’ credentials and assets such as cryptocurrency from digital wallets, as well as money from bank and finance apps. Analyzing the...

Industry 4.0: CNC Machine Security Risks Part 3

This three-part blog series explores the risks associated with CNC machines...

WannaRen Returns as Life Ransomware, Targets India

This blog entry looks at the characteristics of a new WannaRen ransomware variant, which we named Life ransomware after its encryption extension...

Latest on OpenSSL 3.0.7 Critical Bug & Security-Fix

Potential disruptions following vulnerabilities found in OpenSSL...

Manufacturing Cybersecurity: Trends & Survey Response

Based on our survey of over 900 ICS security leaders in the United States, Germany, and Japan, we dig deeper into each industry's challenges and present Trend Micro's recommendations...

Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Security - SASE Part 3

Explore why secure web gateway SWG is important to effectively secure cloud resources and reduce cyber risk across the attack surface...

Simplify with Network Security as a Service (NSaaS)

Learn more on how network security as a service NSaaS employs the latest technologies to counter unknown threats and detect abnormal behavior before it becomes a direct threat...

Biden Cybersecurity Executive Order: Ex-USSS Reflects

Ed Cabrera, former CISO of the US Secret Service and current Chief Cybersecurity Officer for Trend Micro, reflects on the effectiveness of Biden’s executive order and what organizations of all sizes can learn from it...

Play Ransomware's Attack Playbook Similar to that of Hive, Nokoyawa

Play is a new ransomware that takes a page out of Hive and Nokoyawa's playbook. The many similarities among them indicate that Play, like Nokoyawa, are operated by the same people...

Top 5 Cloud Security Trends from AWS re:Inforce 2022

With the industry changing so rapidly, it is often hard to keep up with what is new in cloud security, so we thought we would put together a list of the top five cloud security trends we found during AWS re:Inforce 2022...

Business Email Compromise Attack Tactics

Is BEC more damaging than ransomware? What tactics are BEC actors using? How can organizations bolster their defenses? Jon Clay, VP of threat intelligence, tackles these pertinent questions and more to help reduce cyber risk...

Analyzing the Hidden Danger of Environment Variables for Keeping Secrets

While DevOps practitioners use environment variables to regularly keep secrets in applications, these could be conveniently abused by cybercriminals for their malicious activities, as our analysis shows...

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: Threats Part 2

In part two of our oil and gas series, we look at more threats that can expose the industry to cyberattacks...

Facebook's Metaverse is Expanding the Attack Surface

Understand the cybersecurity risks in the Metaverse...

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...

Unpacking Cloud-Based Cryptocurrency Miners That Abuse GitHub Actions and Azure Virtual Machines

We investigate cloud-based cryptocurrency miners that leverage GitHub Actions and Azure virtual machines, including the cloud infrastructure and vulnerabilities that malicious actors exploit for easy monetary gain...

Hacking the Crypto-Monetized Web

What danger lies around the corner?...

Log4Shell Vulnerability in VMware Leads to Data Exfiltration and Ransomware

We analyzed cases of a Log4Shell vulnerability being exploited in certain versions of the software VMware Horizon. Many of these attacks resulted in data being exfiltrated from the infected systems. However, we also found that some of the victims were infected with ransomware days after the data...

Why It’s Time to Map the Digital Attack Surface

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

Conti vs. LockBit: A Comparative Analysis of Ransomware Groups

We compare the targeting and business models of the Conti and LockBit ransomware groups using data analysis approaches. This will be presented in full at the 34th Annual FIRST Conference on June 27, 2022...

Bruised but Not Broken: The Resurgence of the Emotet Botnet Malware

During the first quarter of 2022, we discovered a significant number of infections using multiple new Emotet variants that employed both old and new techniques to trick their intended victims into accessing malicious links and enabling macro content...

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...

Security Above and Beyond CNAPPs

How Trend Micro’s unified cybersecurity platform is transforming cloud security...

Critically Underrated: Studying the Data Distribution Service (DDS) Protocol

Researchers from Trend Micro Research, TXOne, ADLINK, Alias Robotics, and ZDI looked into the Data Distribution Service DDS standard and its implementations from a security angle. The full findings of this research will be presented in the S4X22 Conference in April 2022...

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...

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 Services' Use of Infected Android Phones Reveals Flaws in SMS Verification

Certain SMS PVA services allow their customers to create disposable user profiles or register multiple accounts on many popular online platforms. These services can be abused by criminals to conduct fraud or other malicious activities...

Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems: Part 2

To cap off the series, we’ll discuss malware detection and distribution in various countries. Our team also rounds up several insights to help strengthen ICS cybersecurity and mitigate malware attacks...

The Log4j story, and how it has impacted our customers

Read about the Log4j story, an analysis of the impact and what to do next...

Why you need XDR in today's threat landscape

Trend Micro's VP of Threat Intelligence, Jon Clay, explores the latest trends in today's threat landscape and why XDR is key to enabling more resilience...

A Look Into Purple Fox’s Server Infrastructure

By examining Purple Fox’s routines and activities, both with our initial research and the subject matter we cover in this blog post, we hope to help incident responders, security operation centers SOCs, and security researchers find and weed out Purple Fox infections in their network...

November Continues Streak of Quiet Patch Tuesdays

November continues a recent pattern of relatively peaceful Patch Tuesday cycles. There were only six vulnerabilities rated as Critical this month, with 49 more rated as Important for a total of 55 for the month of November...