Are You Promoting Security Fluency in your Organization?

Migrating to the cloud is hard. The PowerPoint deck and pretty architectures are drawn up quickly but the work required to make the move will take months and possibly years. The early stages require significant effort by teams to learn new technologies the cloud services themselves and new ways o...

Protect Cloud Workloads with Azure Sentinel

Looking for SIEM and SOAR integration for your Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Workload Security investment? Learn how you can get Azure Sentinel capabilities added to Workload Security and how this integration can create a more valuable solution...

How to Fix Security Misconfigurations Automatically

Mistakes happen, but what happens if someone accidentally introduces a misconfiguration into your public cloud account. Explore the auto-remediation capabilities offered by Trend Micro and unburden your team from manually cleaning up the mess...

Teaming up with INTERPOL to combat COVID-19 threats

If the past couple of months have taught us anything, it’s that partnerships matter in times of crisis. We’re better, stronger and more resilient when we work together. Specifically, public-private partnerships matter in cybersecurity, which is why Trend Micro is always happy to reach out across...

Why Organizations Need to Simplify Cybersecurity

The emergent adoption of cloud services helps organizations drive agility, differentiation, and progress. But like with any technological progress, the cyber risks attached grow right alongside it. This exemplifies that the need for IT leaders to adopt a more holistic, simpler way to manage...

Is chat putting your business at risk?

Now that corporate activities are increasingly taking place outside of the office, technology that enables real-time communication and collaboration among office workers and telecommuters is absolutely essential. Elements like file sharing, video conferencing and cloud access have quickly become...

This Week in Security News: Zippy’s and Flynn

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. This week, Hawaii-based restaurant Zippy’s suffered a POS data breach. In addition, Uber executive John Flynn argued that user expectations on data...

Securing the Connected Industrial World with Trend Micro

At Trend Micro we’ve made it our business over the past 30 years to anticipate where technology is taking the world. That’s why our message has evolved over that time from Peace of Mind Computing to Your Internet Firewall and most recently Securing Your Journey to the Cloud. Well, we know that...

The Cybersecurity Tech Accord: Time to Come Together to Combat Digital Threats

At Trend Micro we’re committed to making the world a safer place in which to exchange digital information. In fact, we’ve been protecting our customers from the ever-evolving threat landscape for nearly 30 years. But we know we can and must do more as an industry to combat the challenges we face...

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...

With 1.4 Billion Stolen Log-Ins on the Dark Web, it’s Time to Take Password Management Seriously

Last week you may have seen some worrying news: researchers probing the darkest corners of the underground web found a secret trove containing 1.4 billion breached usernames and passwords. Yes, that’s right: 1.4 BILLION. Yours might very well be among them, and if you reuse the same password acro...

The Persistent Threat of Android Malware

In a world where mobile users flock to Android or iOS devices, news of an emerging threat impacting either one of these platforms is certainly enough to garner attention. According to recent statistics, there were more than 2 billion active Android users across the globe in May 2017, and many of...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of April 24, 2017

There was a time when a person’s motivation to hack something was for financial reasons or for street cred. But now we’re seeing organizations that have other motivations. Pawn Storm is a cyber-espionage organization whose motives include foreign and domestic espionage, and influence on...

Volume Is Not Risk: Making Sense of the 'Vulnpocalypse'

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

Old WinRAR Flaw Fuels Attacks on Ukraine: How Unmanaged Software Keeps the Door Open

Two separate Russia-aligned campaigns are still exploiting the WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 against Ukrainian organizations nearly a year after it was patched, showing how unmanaged software keeps an exploited entry point open long after the fix ships...

Analyzing TeamPCP’s Supply Chain Attacks: Checkmarx KICS and elementary-data in CI/CD Credential Theft

Our research examines the April 22 Checkmarx KICS and April 24 elementary-data incidents as part of a broader TeamPCP supply chain campaign. Across both cases, the actor abused trusted CI/CD and release workflows to steal credentials at scale...

Europol, Microsoft, TrendAI™ and Collaborators Halt Tycoon 2FA Operations

Tycoon 2FA was dismantled this week by law enforcement and industry partners including TrendAI™. The phishing-as-a-service platform offered MFA bypass services using adversary-in-the-middle AitM proxying...

Viral AI, Invisible Risks: What OpenClaw Reveals About Agentic Assistants

OpenClaw aka Clawdbot or Moltbot represents a new frontier in agentic AI: powerful, highly autonomous, and surprisingly easy to use. In this research, we examine how its capabilities compare to its predecessors’ and highlight the security risks inherent to the agentic AI paradigm...

CVE-2025-55182: React2Shell Analysis, Proof-of-Concept Chaos, and In-the-Wild Exploitation

CVE-2025-55182 is a CVSS 10.0 pre-authentication RCE affecting React Server Components. Amid the flood of fake proof-of-concept exploits, scanners, exploits, and widespread misconceptions, this technical analysis intends to cut through the noise...

Crypto24 Ransomware Group Blends Legitimate Tools with Custom Malware for Stealth Attacks

Crypto24 is a ransomware group that stealthily blends legitimate tools with custom malware, using advanced evasion techniques to bypass security and EDR technologies...

Critical Langflow Vulnerability (CVE-2025-3248) Actively Exploited to Deliver Flodrix Botnet

This blog uncovers an active campaign exploiting CVE-2025-3248 in Langflow versions before 1.3.0 that deploys the Flodrix botnet, enabling threat actors to achieve full system compromise, initiate DDoS attacks, and potentially exfiltrate sensitive data...

Fake CAPTCHA Attacks Deploy Infostealers and RATs in a Multistage Payload Chain

We have detected a new tactic involving fake CAPTCHA pages that trick users into executing harmful commands in Windows. This scheme uses disguised files sent via phishing and other malicious methods...

Trend Micro Puts a Spotlight on AI at Pwn2Own Berlin

Get a sneak peak into how Trend Micro's Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 is breaking new ground, focusing on AI infrastructure and finding the bugs to proactively safeguard the future of computing...

ZDI-23-1527 and ZDI-23-1528: The Potential Impact of Overly Permissive SAS Tokens on PC Manager Supply Chains

In ZDI-23-1527 and ZDI-23-1528 we uncover two possible scenarios where attackers could have compromised the Microsoft PC Manager supply chain...

AI-Assisted Fake GitHub Repositories Fuel SmartLoader and LummaStealer Distribution

In this blog entry, we uncovered a campaign that uses fake GitHub repositories to distribute SmartLoader, which is then used to deliver Lumma Stealer and other malicious payloads. The campaign leverages GitHub’s trusted reputation to evade detection, using AI-generated content to make fake...

Earth Koshchei Coopts Red Team Tools in Complex RDP Attacks

APT group Earth Koshchei, suspected to be sponsored by the SVR, executed a large-scale rogue RDP campaign using spear-phishing emails, red team tools, and sophisticated anonymization techniques to target high-profile sectors...

AI Coding Companions 2024: AWS, GitHub, Tabnine + More

AI coding companions are keeping pace with the high-speed evolution of generative AI overall, continually refining and augmenting their capabilities to make software development faster and easier than ever before. This blog looks at how the landscape is changing and key features of market-leading...

TargetCompany’s Linux Variant Targets ESXi Environments

In this blog entry, our researchers provide an analysis of TargetCompany ransomware’s Linux variant and how it targets VMware ESXi environments using new methods for payload delivery and execution...

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...

The Fall of LabHost: Law Enforcement Shuts Down Phishing Service Provider

On April 18, 2024, the UK’s Metropolitan Police Service and others conducted an operation that succeeded in taking down the Phishing-as-a-Service provider LabHost...

A Necessary Digital Odyssey of RPA and AI/ML at HUD

Explore two RPA and AI/ML use cases at HUD during the operational challenges of the longest US Government shutdown, a rigid legacy IT environment, and complex federal regulations...

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...

Earth Lusca Employs New Linux Backdoor, Uses Cobalt Strike for Lateral Movement

While monitoring Earth Lusca, we discovered an intriguing, encrypted file on the threat actor's server — a Linux-based malware, which appears to originate from the open-source Windows backdoor Trochilus, which we've dubbed SprySOCKS due to its swift behavior and SOCKS implementation...

Biden National Cybersecurity Strategy Key Takeaways

Major changes are underway, with new rules for federal agencies and updated requirements for public-private partnerships. We discuss the implementation plans for the strategy's first two pillars: defend critical infrastructure and disrupt and dismantle threat actors...

Revisiting 16shop Phishing Kit, Trend-Interpol Partnership

In this entry, we summarize the security analyses and investigations done on phishing-as-a-service 16shop through the years. We also outline the partnership between Trend Micro and Interpol in taking down the main administrators and servers of this massive phishing campaign...

INTERPOL + Trend to Fight African Cybercrime Networks

Global threat intelligence helps to disrupt thousands of African cyber crimes networks...

OT Security is Less Mature but Progressing Rapidly

The latest study said that OT security is less mature in several capabilities than IT security, but most organizations are improving it...

ChatGPT Highlights a Flaw in the Educational System

Rethinking learning metrics and fostering critical thinking in the era of generative AI and LLMs...

New SEC Cybersecurity Rules: What You Need to Know

The US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC recently adopted rules regarding mandatory cybersecurity disclosure. Explore what this announcement means for you and your organization...

New SEC Cybersecurity Rules: What You Need to Know

The US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC recently adopted rules regarding mandatory cybersecurity disclosure. Explore what this announcement means for you and your organization...

Cybersecurity Awareness Training to Fight Ransomware

Advanced technologies allow organizations to discover, assess and mitigate cyber threats like ransomware. But truly strong cybersecurity also requires a threat-aware workforce—prompting more and more enterprises to focus on cybersecurity awareness training and testing...

How to Achieve AWS Operational Excellence in Your Cloud Workload

Explore the Operational Excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and examine best practices and design principles for cloud-based security operations, including CI/CD and risk management...

Gaps in Azure Service Fabric’s Security Call for User Vigilance

In this blog post, we discuss different configuration scenarios that may lead to security issues with Azure Service Fabric, a distributed platform for deploying, managing, and scaling microservices and container applications...

Decrypting Cyber Risk Quantification

Discover the evolution of cyber risk quantification, criteria for an accurate risk score, and its benefits across the organization...

Insight on Vulnerabilities in MOVEit Transfer

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Building a seamless and secure cloud environment with AWS

Elevate cloud capabilities and stay ahead in today's dynamic cloud landscape...

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...

Health Industry Cybersecurity Best Practices 2023

This blog explains the new resources of health industry cybersecurity practices and landscape analysis which the HHS U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released in Apr 2023...

Against the Clock: Cyber Incident Response Plan

Conventional wisdom says most organizations will experience a cybersecurity breach at some point—if they haven’t already. That makes having a ready-to-launch incident response process crucial when an attack is detected, as this fictionalized scenario shows...