Breaking Down S3 Ransomware: Variants, Attack Paths and Trend Vision One™ Defenses

In this blog entry, Trend™ Research explores how ransomware actors are shifting their focus to cloud-based assets, including the tactics used to compromise business-critical data in AWS environments...

Trend Micro Recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ 2025 for NAV

Unified visibility, proactive intelligence, and proven leadership in network analysis and visibility...

Fast, Broad, and Elusive: How Vidar Stealer 2.0 Upgrades Infostealer Capabilities

Trend Research examines the latest version of the Vidar stealer, which features a full rewrite in C, a multithreaded architecture, and several enhancements that warrant attention. Its timely evolution suggests that Vidar is positioning itself to occupy the space left after Lumma Stealer’s decline...

A Cascade of Insecure Architectures: Axis Plugin Design Flaw Expose Select Autodesk Revit Users to Supply Chain Risk

We discovered Azure Storage Account credentials exposed in Axis Communications’ Autodesk Revit plugin, allowing unauthorized modification of cloud-hosted files. This exposure, combined with vulnerabilities in Autodesk Revit, could enable supply-chain attacks targeting end users...

New Ransomware Charon Uses Earth Baxia APT Techniques To Target Enterprises

We uncovered Charon, a new ransomware strainfamily that uses advanced APT-style techniques, including DLL sideloading, process injection, and anti-EDR capabilities, to target organizations with customized ransom demands...

Proactive Security Insights for SharePoint Attacks (CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771)

CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771 are vulnerabilities in on-premise Microsoft SharePoint Servers that evolved from previously patched flaws, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution through advanced deserialization and ViewState abuse...

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...

CrazyHunter Campaign Targets Taiwanese Critical Sectors

This blog entry details research on emerging ransomware group CrazyHunter, which has launched a sophisticated campaign aimed at Taiwan's essential services...

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...

Capacity is Critical in Riskier Threat Landscape

International cooperation, reporting, and capacity building are critical to enhance cybersecurity defenses. Effective governance in an increasingly risky landscape requires visibility as well as coordinated vulnerability disclosure...

NDR: Not Just a "Nice to Have" Anymore

Network Detection and Response NDR is no longer a 'nice-to-have'—it’s essential. NDR complements EDR, accelerates incident response, and enhances visibility, making it a critical tool for modern cybersecurity strategies and service providers...

Spot the Difference: Earth Kasha's New LODEINFO Campaign And The Correlation Analysis With The APT10 Umbrella

LODEINFO is a malware used in attacks targeting mainly Japan since 2019. Trend Micro has been tracking the group as Earth Kasha. We have identified a new campaign connected to this group with significant updates to their strategy, tactics, and arsenals...

Trend Micro and Japanese Partners Reveal Hidden Connections Among SEO Malware Operations

Trend Micro researchers, in collaboration with Japanese authorities, analyzed links between SEO malware families used in SEO poisoning attacks that lead users to fake shopping sites...

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...

Complete Guide to Protecting Seven Attack Vectors

The quicker a cyberattack is identified, the less it costs. Jon Clay, VP of Threat Intelligence, reviews seven key initial attack vectors and provides proactive security tips to help you reduce cyber risk across the attack surface...

AI Pulse: Brazil Gets Bold with Meta, Interpol’s Red Flag & more

The second edition of AI Pulse is all about AI regulation: what’s coming, why it matters, and what might happen without it. We look at Brazil’s hard não to Meta, how communities are pushing back against AI training data use, Interpol’s warnings about AI deepfakes, and more...

AI-Powered Deepfake Tools Becoming More Accessible Than Ever

Trend Micro research uncovers new cybercrime tools posing increased threats to security, highlighting the rapid evolution of AI-powered hacking services and their potential for mass exploitation...

Teaming up with IBM to secure critical SAP workloads

Trend Micro partners with IBM to offer advanced threat detection and response for protecting critical infrastructures running on IBM Power servers...

An In-Depth Look at Crypto-Crime in 2023 Part 2

In 2023, the cryptocurrency industry faced a significant increase in illicit activities, including money laundering, fraud, and ransomware attacks. Ransomware attacks were especially prevalent and profitable for attackers. However, other forms of criminal activity also saw a rise...

The Top 10 AI Security Risks Every Business Should Know

With every week bringing news of another AI advance, it’s becoming increasingly important for organizations to understand the risks before adopting AI tools. This look at 10 key areas of concern identified by the Open Worldwide Application Security Project OWASP flags risks enterprises should kee...

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...

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...

Modernize Federal Cybersecurity Strategy with FedRAMP

Detection and response will be critical for the U.S. Government to modernize security operations and stay ahead of cyber-attacks...

How the EU Cyber Resilience Act Impacts Manufacturers

EU's Cyber Resilience Act urges vendors to embrace security-by-design, establishing standards in global tech protocols...

ALPHV/BlackCat Take Extortion Public

Learn more about ALPHV filing a complaint with the Security and Exchange Commission SEC against their victim, which appears to be an attempt to influence MeridianLink to pay the ransom sooner than later...

A Closer Look at ChatGPT's Role in Automated Malware Creation

This blog entry explores the effectiveness of ChatGPT's safety measures, the potential for AI technologies to be misused by criminal actors, and the limitations of current AI models...

A Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Guide for Leaders

Cybersecurity risk assessment provides the continuous asset detection, analysis, prioritization, and risk scoring needed to keep pace with a continuously growing digital attack surface...

Qakbot Takedown: The Road Ahead is Long and Winding

A long and challenging journey against cybercrime around the world...

6 Ransomware Trends & Evolutions to Watch For

In the era of digital transformation, ransomware groups are adapting to changing technology. The next evolution of ransomware could begin with these trends...

Monti Ransomware Unleashes a New Encryptor for Linux

The Monti ransomware collective has restarted their operations, focusing on institutions in the legal and governmental fields. Simultaneously, a new variant of Monti, based on the Linux platform, has surfaced, demonstrating notable differences from its previous Linux-based versions...

Lower Data Breach Insurance Costs with These Tips

The changing attack landscape has resulted in the hardening of the data breach insurance market. Gain insight into how implementing security controls can reduce the mean time to detect and control the costliness of an attack...

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...

How to Leverage the AWS Cost Optimization Pillar

Explore the Cost Optimization pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and gain best practices for designing processes that make it possible to go to market and optimize costs early on...

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...

AWS Security Pillar: A Well-Architected Cloud Environment

Explore the Security pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and be guided through the fundamental security controls that should be addressed when designing, transitioning to, and operating in a cloud environment...

Mitigate Top 5 Common Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities in software and infrastructure are a fact of life for developers and SREs. But when you understand vulnerabilities, you can minimize their impact. Learn more about five common threats and how to mitigate them...

Human vs Machine Identity Risk Management

In today's business world's dynamic and ever-changing digital landscape, organizations encounter escalating security challenges that demand a more business-friendly and pertinent approach...

Insights on the MOVEit File Transfer Vulnerability

Ongoing developments on this topic will be added to this thread. We invite you to bookmark this page and check back...

Attack Surface Management Strategies

As organizations shift to the cloud in droves, their digital attack surface continues to rapidly expand. We explore how proactive cyber risk management can help harden your defenses and reduce the likelihood of an attack or breach...

Amazon Security Lake Partners with Trend

Trend Micro is proud to be a launch partner for Amazon Security Lake, which puts the customer in control, making critical data available to them from third-party security and analytics solutions of their choice...

How Connected Car Cyber Risk will Evolve

Learn how connected car cyber risk will evolve in the coming years...

Accelerating Security Risk Management

In response to the expanding attack surface, Mike Milner, Trend Micro VP of Cloud Technology, explores the role security risk management plays in this new era of cybersecurity and how IT leaders are accelerating innovation...

Energy Transformation via Cyber-Resilient Smart Grid

Learn more about smart grid vulnerabilities and how organizations can future-proof their enterprises...

Guide to Better Threat Detection and Response (XDR)

50% of security teams in a Trend Micro global study said they’re overwhelmed by the number of alerts surfaced by disconnected point products and SIEMs. Discover how XDR can enhance threat detection and response to improve a SecOps team’s efficiency and outcomes...

Cyber Insurance Coverage FAQ with DataStream CEO

To help organizations simplify the cyber insurance process and understand the must-have security controls involved, Trend Micro Cyber Risk Specialist, Vince Kearns, and Data Stream CEO and Co-Founder, Andy Anderson, examine cyber insurance coverage along with approaches to strengthening...

Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats

Going further and faster with high-performance network security...

Prevent Ransomware with Cybersecurity Monitoring

Misconfigured cloud and IT assets open the door to a wide range of cyber risks. Automated, continuous cybersecurity monitoring lets organizations watch accounts and systems for exposures in real time and maintain strong attack surface risk management...

Examining Ransomware Payments From a Data-Science Lens

In this entry, we discuss case studies that demonstrated how data-science techniques were applied in our investigation of ransomware groups' ransom transactions, as detailed in our joint research with Waratah Analytics, “What Decision-Makers Need to Know About Ransomware Risk.”...

Investigating the PlugX Trojan Disguised as a Legitimate Windows Debugger Tool

Trend Micro’s Managed Extended Detection and Response MxDR team discovered that a file called x32dbg.exe was used to sideload a malicious DLL we identified as a variant of PlugX...

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...