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VPN 101 – Part 2: How to Set Up the VPN/Content Shield in Trend Micro Mobile Security for iOS
Submitted by Brook Stein When you use Content Shield in Trend Micro Mobile Security for iOS, you’re protected from web threats across all iOS browsers and in apps that load websites. If you activate Age filters for your family members, they’re also protected from going to inappropriate websites...
Trend Micro Capture the Flag: Train security professionals – Close the skills gap
Businesses today face a security challenge: Protecting their systems and data is vital, but there aren’t enough qualified employees who can successfully make that happen. Similarly, young cybersecurity professionals need to overcome the gap between what is learned in a classroom and the practical...
Customer-driven Rapid Innovation for Hybrid Cloud Security
Cyber threats have no boundaries; they come in new and evolving forms, capable of striking at any time … so it becomes important that your threat protection extends beyond conventional boundaries as well. In the past, on premise versions of security solutions were held up by long development cycl...
The Shared Responsibility Model
I’m often asked what the biggest cyberthreats are in the cloud. When people pose that question, they seem to be expecting an answer on par with a Hollywood movie plot. The truth is far simpler. The number one threat in the cloud today is service misconfigurations. Despite the cloud’s clear...
This Week in Security News: Cybersecurity Skills Gap and Legislature
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, learn how the cybersecurity skills gap is affecting organizations. Also, learn how a bipartisan bill is working to close the gap. Read on:...
Incident Response In The Public Eye
Cyberattacks happen constantly. Every day organizations are attackers online whether they realize it or not. Most of these attacks are passing affairs. The mere fact that systems are on to the internet makes them a target of opportunity. For the most part, these attacks are non-events. Security...
The Importance of Employee Cybersecurity Training: Top Strategies and Best Practices
For those responsible for overseeing the data protection and cybersecurity of an organization, it's a familiar storyline: "Employee opens email attachment and infects business with ransomware." Headlines to this effect are nothing new. Even the most advanced security solutions can't completely...
When Phishing Starts from the Inside
A growing concern of security professionals is internal phishing attacks - phishing emails sent from one trusted user to another of the same organization. Internal phishing emails are used in multi-stage attacks in which an email account is owned either by controlling the users device with...
Tracking CVE-2021-26084 and Other Server-Based Vulnerability Exploits via Trend Micro Cloud One and Trend Micro Vision One
We look into campaigns that exploit the following server vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-26084, CVE-2020-14882, CVE-2020-14750, and CVE-2020-14883...
The Potential Impact of the OpenSSH Vulnerabilities CVE-2024–6387 and CVE-2024-6409
We check the OpenSSH vulnerabilities CVE-2024–6387 and CVE-2024-6409, examining their potential real-world impact and the possibility of exploitation for CVE-2024–6387 in x64 systems...
Not Just Another 100% Score: MITRE ENGENUITY ATT&CK
The latest MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations pitted leading managed detection and response MDR services against threats modeled on the menuPass and BlackCat/AlphV adversary groups. Trend Micro achieved 100% detection across all 15 major attack steps with an 86% actionable rate for those steps—...
Not Just Another 100% Score: MITRE ENGENIUTY ATT&CK
The latest MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluations pitted leading managed detection and response MDR services against threats modeled on the menuPass and BlackCat/AlphV adversary groups. Trend Micro achieved 100% detection across all 15 major attack steps with an 86% actionable rate for those steps—...
BEC Will Reach Two Levels Deeper
In our predictions report for 2019, “Mapping the Future: Dealing with Pervasive and Persistent Threats,” we foresaw an increase in the rate of BEC business email compromise attacks: “Business email compromise will go two levels down in the org chart.” From the report: | “Business email compromise...
What Happens When Victims Pay Ransomware Attackers?
For many hackers around the globe, ransomware infections have become a lucrative business. Although these types of malware samples have been around for years now, they continue to spur success - and high monetary profits - for attackers. In fact, according to a statement from U.S. Deputy Attorney...
Cyber Workforce DevOps: A Way to Close the Cyber Skills Gap
I personally had a great week last week. Trend Micro was very fortunate to participate in and sponsor the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education NICE 2018 Conference and Expo and the IBM Cyber Day 4 Girls at Florida International...
Trend Micro Achieves “Recommended” Rating from NSS Labs in Data Center IPS Group Test
One of the key use cases for our customers is the protection of their data center environments, which can involve moving off the perimeter into the data center or segmenting their data center from the rest of the organization. It is imperative that a data center security solution not only deliver...
Stop Office 365 Credential Theft with an Artificial Eye
We all know that email remains by far the number one threat vector facing organizations today. Trend Micro blocked more than 20.4 billion threat in the first half of 2018 alone, nearly 83% of which were email borne. But there’s more: corporate email accounts have also become a key target for...
Why XDR Is A Big Deal, and Is Different from SIEM and Platforms
In Jon Clay’s post, he does a great job of explaining the evolution from EDR to XDR. In short, he explained that Endpoint Detection and Response EDR is great, but that having sources of information beyond endpoint is better. The ‘X’ in XDR is essentially ‘many’ or whatever we can add to provide a...
Securing IoT Networks
Q: How do you segment a mesh? A: You can’t. Legacy IoT devices, Industrial Control Systems with custom networking, are exceptionally difficult to secure. Typically, these devices contain only enough compute capabilities to support their primary operational function. They have limited memory, low...
This Week in Security News: Senate Hearings and Equifax Breaches
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, leaders of six security agencies testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Equifax hack grew in severity, and hackers used the...
Small Business: A Target for Cyber Criminals
The age of cyber threats has been marked with critical vulnerabilities, evolving strains and organizations that have faced the consequences. Target's breach, the rise of ransomware like WannaCry and the recent Equifax hack serve as lessons that these attacks are the new normal for companies, maki...
The Fear of Vendor Lock-in Leads to Cloud Failures
Vendor lock-in has been an often-quoted risk since the mid-1990’s. Fear that by investing too much with one vendor, an organization reduces their options in the future. Was this a valid concern? Is it still today? The Risk Organizations walk a fine line with their technology vendors. Ideally, you...
This Week in Security News: How the Cybercriminal Underground Has Changed in 5 Years and the NSA Warns of New Sandworm Attacks on Email Servers
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, learn about how, over the past five years, the cybercriminal underground has seen a major shift to new platforms, communications channels,...
This Week in Security News: Hong Kong Users Targeted with Mobile Malware via Local News Links and Hackers Hijack Routers to Spread Malware Via Coronavirus Apps
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, learn about Apple iOS smartphone users in Hong Kong targeted in a new campaign exploiting online news readers to distribute malware. Also,...
This Week in Security News: 5G Security and Tax Scams
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, learn about cybersecurity and data concerns in 5G. Also, learn about cybercriminal threats during tax season. Read on: Securing Enterprises...
This Week in Security News: Radio Frequency Technology and Telecom Crimes
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, learn how radio frequency technology is putting industrial organizations at risk. Also, understand the threat landscape of telecommunication...
AV-Comparatives: Trend Micro Mobile Security for Android Provides 100% Malware Protection for Mobile Users
With the introduction of Android v8.0 Android Oreo in August of 2017, among other OS improvements Google introduced its built-in malware protection for Android call Play Protect dependent on Google Play Services 11 or later. Play Protect checks apps and APK files downloaded from Google Play or...
Towards a Safer Internet for All: Winners of New Brunswick Video Contest Announced
Today more than ever, society needs to come together to work towards a better and safer future for all our children. This doesn’t just mean members of the public: companies can and should play a key role in helping to support worthy causes. Global citizenship and cyber security are two issues tha...
Trend Micro Identified as a Representative Vendor for its Protection Capabilities For Cloud Workloads
We are proud to be included in this year’s Gartner Market Guide for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms report, which included 24 security leaders in Cloud Workload Protection solutions. Trend Micro was identified with 16 out of 21 capabilities listed by Gartner. Trend Micro delivers unique serve...
Unveiling the Fallout: Operation Cronos' Impact on LockBit Following Landmark Disruption
Our new article provides key highlights and takeaways from Operation Cronos' disruption of LockBit's operations, as well as telemetry details on how LockBit actors operated post-disruption...
CVE-2024-21412: Water Hydra Targets Traders With Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Zero-Day
The APT group Water Hydra has been exploiting the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability CVE-2024-21412 in its campaigns targeting financial market traders. This vulnerability, which has now been patched by Microsoft, was discovered and disclosed by the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative...
Actors Target Huawei Cloud Using Upgraded Linux Malware
In this article, we discuss a new Linux malware trend in which malicious actors deploy code that removes applications and services present mainly in Huawei Cloud...
This Week in Security News: Microsoft vs. Amazon in the Cloud and Escalated Risk in the Oil and Gas Industry
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, learn about cybersecurity risk facing the oil and gas industry and its supply chain. Also, read about what Trend Micro’s CEO, Eva Chen, has ...
Tech Support Scams: What are They and How do I Stay Safe?
If you read this blog regularly you’re no doubt aware that cyber-criminals are a determined bunch, with a large range of tools and tactics at their disposal to rob you of your identity and hard-earned cash. Tech support scams TSS are an increasingly popular way for them to do just this. In 2017,...
Threat Intelligence Sweeping now supports container security telemetry data
Threat Intelligence Sweeping starts to support sweep container security telemetry data. Users can now use the TI tool to identify possible malicious activity in their container-based environments. The trigger events are visible in workbench alert...
Beauty Out of Chaos: Elevating Cybersecurity to an Art Form – Part 2
Art and cybersecurity are not two worlds usually seen sharing the same orbit. But at Trend Micro we believe there’s a vision, a mastery of skill and a passion which unites both. It’s an approach we’ve spent the past three decades honing as serious barriers have emerged to challenge IT efforts to...
This Week in Security News: Holiday Cybercriminals & Cryptomining Malware
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, learn the common threats and the best practices for defending against cybercriminals during November’s online shopping season. Also, see the...
CVE-2024-38112: Void Banshee Targets Windows Users Through Zombie Internet Explorer in Zero-Day Attacks
Our threat hunters discovered CVE-2024-38112, which was used as a zero-day by APT group Void Banshee, to access and execute files through the disabled Internet Explorer using MSHTML. We promptly identified and reported this zero-day vulnerability to Microsoft, and it has been patched...
This Week in Security News: IIoT Threats and Malware Apps
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, learn about security threats directed at smart manufacturing environments. Also, learn why malware installed from the Android app store...
Trend Micro Redefines Endpoint Security with Apex One™
Today, Trend Micro is excited to bring you Apex One, the evolution of our endpoint security solution for enterprise. Apex One combines a breadth of threat detection & response capability with investigative features, in a single agent. Over the last few years, endpoint investigative features have...
Zero-Day Coverage Update – Week of July 16, 2018
One night this week, I came across one of my favorite movies Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The world had gone crazy after the reclusive Willy Wonka announces that he has hidden five golden tickets in chocolate Wonka Bars that promised a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate...
PurpleFox Adds New Backdoor That Uses WebSockets
In September 2021, the Trend Micro Managed XDR MDR team looked into suspicious activity related to a PurpleFox operator. Our findings led us to investigate an updated PurpleFox arsenal, which included an added vulnerability CVE-2021-1732 and optimized rootkit capabilities leveraged in their attac...
This Week in Security News: ZDI Bug Hunters Rake in $1.5M in 2019 and Metamorfo Trojan Malware Campaign Targets Online Banking Users
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, read about Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative’s $1.5 million in awards and other noteworthy milestones in 2019. Also, learn about a crafty...
This Week in Security News: Hijacks and Healthcare
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, Singapore looks into the effectiveness of virtual browsers in an attempt to reduce cyberattacks on healthcare systems. Also, cybercriminals...
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...
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...
TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 31, 2017
During the DefCon Conference last week, a Windows SMB vulnerability was revealed by researchers from RiskSense. The 20-year-old bug can be found in Windows 2000 up to Windows 10. Microsoft has indicated that it will not be issuing a patch for the vulnerability as it doesn't meet their bar for...
Cerber Ransomware Exploits Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2023-22518
We encountered the Cerber ransomware exploiting the Atlassian Confluence vulnerability CVE-2023-22518 in its operations...
The Fileless, Non-Malware Menace
There’s an old expression: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. What happens, though, if the duck in question is malware that doesn’t behave like typical malware? Namely, it doesn’t drop a file on your disk to infect your computer, hijack...
TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 17, 2017
If you conduct a search on the Web for the number of languages spoken around the world, you’ll see numbers ranging anywhere from 6,000-7,000. I figure I’m doing okay since I can speak English and Spanish, sign the English alphabet, recite the Greek alphabet, and read music. There are roughly over...