How hackers recycle top threats

Developers are known for reusing pieces of code over and over again - after all, if it isn't broke, why fix it? In fact, this is what makes open source programs so popular and valuable - as opposed to having to create completely new code, developers can utilize existing open source code, and can...

Hackers Leverage Chat for Command&Control: How You Can Protect Your Business

Chat platforms have become a cornerstone for businesses and their customers alike. These important tools make it possible for employees to communicate and collaborate from nearly any location, and enable consumers to reach out to companies in accordance with their preferences. This fondness for...

A Storm’s a Coming: How businesses can defend against threat actor groups like Pawn Storm

Pawn Storm aka Sednit5, Fancy Bear, APT28, Sofacy and STRONTIUM8 might sound like Instagram accounts, top-secret spy programs or recently passed legislation, but in reality they are all different names for the same successful cyber espionage group or threat actor group. These actors often use...

Tracking Over 35,000 Fake Sites in the 2026 World Cup Scam Wave

Between January and June 2026, TrendAI™ tracked more than 35,000 fake sites exploiting the 2026 FIFA World Cup, spanning counterfeit merchandise shops, cloned ticket pages, and bogus free-streaming sites, which together drew roughly 1.48 million visits from Japan...

Governing Claude Enterprise in Environments Where Inline Controls Can't Go

TrendAI™ integrates the Claude Compliance API into TrendAI Vision One™ through two collectors that bring AI-aware visibility and detection to Claude Enterprise usage: one keeps all data inside the environment, while the other feeds TrendAI Vision One™ for deeper correlation and compliance...

Quasar Linux (QLNX) – A Silent Foothold in the Supply Chain: Inside a Full-Featured Linux RAT With Rootkit, PAM Backdoor, Credential Harvesting Capabilities

TrendAI™ Research breaks down Quasar Linux QLNX, a previously undocumented sophisticated Linux RAT with low detection rates. In this blog, we examine a full-featured Linux threat incorporating a rootkit, a PAM backdoor, credential harvesting, and more, revealing how this malware enables stealthy...

Kuse Web App Abused to Host Phishing Document

Bad actors took advantage of the legitimate name and services of Kuse, a popular AI-based app designed for workplaces. The attackers exploited the users’ trust in Kuse to carry out a phishing attack...

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...

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...

Redefining Enterprise Defense in the Era of AI-Led Cyberattacks

More cybercriminals are turning to using autonomous AI tools to upgrade their attacks, as exemplified by the recent utilization of Anthropic’s Claude Code, prompting an urgent need for enterprises to adopt agentic AI-driven security platforms and proactive defenses to counter AI-related threats...

Incomplete NVIDIA Patch to CVE-2024-0132 Exposes AI Infrastructure and Data to Critical Risks

A previously disclosed vulnerability in NVIDIA Container Toolkit has an incomplete patch, which, if exploited, could put a wide range of AI infrastructure and sensitive data at risk...

Exploiting DeepSeek-R1: Breaking Down Chain of Thought Security

This entry explores how the Chain of Thought reasoning in the DeepSeek-R1 AI model can be susceptible to prompt attacks, insecure output generation, and sensitive data theft...

Link Trap: GenAI Prompt Injection Attack

Prompt injection exploits vulnerabilities in generative AI to manipulate its behavior, even without extensive permissions. This attack can expose sensitive data, making awareness and preventive measures essential. Learn how it works and how to stay protected...

MITRE ATT&CK 2024 Results for Enterprise Security

Enterprise 2024 will incorporate multiple, smaller emulations for a more nuanced and targeted evaluation of defensive capabilities. We’re excited to offer two distinct adversary focus areas: Ransomware targeting Windows and Linux, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's targeting macOS...

AI Configuration Best Practices to address AI Security Risks

AI usage is on the rise as many companies are adopting AI for productivity gains and creation of new business opportunities which provide value to their customers...

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

This article uncovers a Golang ransomware abusing Amazon 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...

Trend Detects NVIDIA AI Toolkit Vulnerability

On Wednesday, NVIDIA released updates to fix a critical vulnerability in its NVIDIA Container Toolkit, which, if exploited, could put a wide range of AI infrastructure and underlying data/secrets at risk...

Cybersecurity Compass: Bridging the Communication Gap

Discover how to use the Cybersecurity Compass to foster effective conversations about cybersecurity strategy between non-technical and technical audiences, focusing on the phases of before, during, and after a breach...

Inaugural World Tour 2024 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 CISOs had to say...

How Ransomhub Ransomware Uses EDRKillShifter to Disable EDR and Antivirus Protections

Trend Micro tracked this group as Water Bakunawa, behind the RansomHub ransomware, employs various anti-EDR techniques to play a high-stakes game of hide and seek with security solutions...

AI Pulse: Sticker Shock, Rise of the Agents, Rogue AI

This issue of AI Pulse is all about agentic AI: what it is, how it works, and why security needs to be baked in from the start to prevent agentic AI systems from going rogue once they’re deployed...

Confidence in GenAI: The Zero Trust Approach

Enterprises have gone all-in on GenAI, but the more they depend on AI models, the more risks they face. Trend Vision One™ – Zero Trust Secure Access ZTSA – AI Service Access bridges the gap between access control and GenAI services to protect the user journey...

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...

Cyber insurance requirements: What’s in store for 2024

As the threat landscape evolves and the cost of data breaches increase, so will cyber insurance requirements from carriers. Cyber Risk Specialist Vince Kearns shares his 4 predictions for 2024...

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...

Modern Attack Surface Management for Cloud Teams

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

Attack Signals Possible Return of Genesis Market, Abuses Node.js, and EV Code Signing

The Trend Micro Managed XDR team encountered malicious operations that used techniques similar to the ones used by Genesis Market, a website for facilitating fraud that was taken down in April 2023...

Zero Day Threat Protection for Your Network

Explore the world of zero day threats and gain valuable insight into the importance of proactive detection and remediation...

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...

How to Build a Simple Application Powered by ChatGPT

OpenAI’s ChatGPT API enables applications to access and integrate ChatGPT, a large language model LLM that generates human-like responses to input. Learn how to build a web application that utilizes ChatGPT to generate useful output...

Zero Trust Frameworks for Industry

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

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...

Meet NIST Compliance Standards Using Automation

Achieve NIST compliance for your business without slowing down your team...

An Overview of the Different Versions of the Trigona Ransomware

The Trigona ransomware is a relatively new ransomware family that began activities around late October 2022 — although samples of it existed as early as June 2022. Since then, Trigona’s operators have remained highly active, and in fact have been continuously updating their ransomware binaries...

MOVEit Vulnerability Breaches Targeted Fed Agencies

Jon Clay and Ed Cabrera talk about the MOVEit breaches and more in the video series TrendTalksBizSec...

Your New AI Assistant: Trend Vision One™ – Companion

Discover how Companion can help upgrade SOC efficiency and elevate your team to reach their full potential...

SRE vs DevOps: Differences & Similarities

SRE vs DevOps: which approach should you use? Explore shared goals and distinctions between their functions and responsibilities...

Essential Cybersecurity Compliance Standards

With the continued expansion of your attack surface, cybersecurity compliance has become more important than ever. Gain an overview of the most popular compliance standards, including HIPAA, NIST, ISO, and PCI DSS, to safeguard your business against potential risks...

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...

Global Cyber Risk Lowers to Moderate Level in 2H' 2022

Trend’s seventh edition of the Cyber Risk Index CRI reveals an in-depth analysis of cyber threat and vulnerabilities...

Cyber Threat Intelligence: The Power of Data

Discover how cybersecurity leaders and decision makers can leverage cyber threat intelligence to increase security posture and reduce risk...

Choosing a Hybrid Cloud Security Solution 101

Explore helpful tips for choosing the right hybrid cloud security solution to address cybersecurity challenges of today and tomorrow...

Why Chaos Engineering is a Good Stress Test Strategy

Learn about chaos engineering, a method of resilience testing that intentionally introduces “chaos” into a system to discover vulnerabilities and weaknesses that can be exploited by attackers...

Future Proof Your Business from Cybersecurity Threats

A recent global Trend Micro survey found that 53% of respondents said it’s impossible to future-proof cybersecurity due to evolving threats. Respectfully, we disagree. Discover best practices to shifting security left and future proofing your business against cybersecurity threats...

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...

Pack it Secretly: Earth Preta’s Updated Stealthy Strategies

After months of investigation, we found that several undisclosed malware and interesting tools used for exfiltration purposes were being used by Earth Preta. We also observed that the threat actors were actively changing their tools, tactics, and procedures TTPs to bypass security solutions. In...

Decrypting Cyber Risk Quantification

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

Fight Ransomware with a Cybersecurity Audit

An advanced cybersecurity audit helps identify overlooked IP addresses, forgotten devices, and misconfigured infrastructure that can expose organizations to ransomware and other cyber threats. Find out how to strengthen attack surface risk management...

Transport Layer Security (TLS): Issues & Protocol

Although Transport layer security TLS provides enhanced security, cybercriminals have become increasingly savvy, finding ways to circumvent many of these protections. Learn how malicious actors exploit vulnerabilities within TLS to introduce new forms of malware...