GDPR vs Blockchain: Technology vs the Law

One of the biggest impacts that GDPR will have for consumers citizens of countries that comply with GDPR, at least is the right to be forgotten. A person can request that they be removed from a record. What if the record is part of a blockchain? This poses a challenge for blockchain...

Bad Rabbit Ransomware – What is it and how to stay safe

Trend Micro is tracking multiple reports of ransomware infections, known as Bad Rabbit, in many countries around the world. A suspected variant of Petya, Bad Rabbit is ransomware—malicious software that infects a computer and restricts user access to the infected machine until a ransom is paid to...

Further Advances the State of Cyber Threat Information Sharing into Cyber Threat Management and Response

Healthcare organizations HCOs are not immune to large-scale cyberattacks, as evident by the most recent attacks WannaCry and Petya. In fact, HCOs are an attractive target for hackers because of the immense amount of personally identifiable information housed in their systems. The industry is wide...

What We Know About CVE-2024-49112 and CVE-2024-49113

This blog entry provides an overview of CVE-2024-49112 and CVE-2024-49113 and includes information that IT and SOC professionals need to know to stay protected against possible exploitation...

Latest Batloader Campaigns Use Pyarmor Pro for Evasion

In June 2023, Trend Micro observed an upgrade to the evasion techniques used by the Batloader initial access malware, which we’ve covered in previous blog entries...

Defend Yourself Now and in the Future Against Mobile Malware

The world has gone mobile and the US is leading the way. It’s estimated that that the number of smartphone users alone topped 257 million in the States in 2018. That means three-quarters 74% of households now boast at least one mobile device. And in this new digital world, it’s mobile application...

3 Reasons MSPs Must Evolve Beyond Endpoint Detection and Response

Endpoint protection is a critical component of a security strategy. But it’s not enough. Today’s threat landscape is so wide and varied, it requires round-the-clock monitoring, full visibility into IT environments and a multilayered approach to keep hackers at bay. For MSPs, this creates a sizabl...

Innovate or Die?

The recent series of IT acquisitions and IPOs highlight a simple economic fact: companies that fail to keep up with the fast-paced innovation of technology can easily become targets for acquisition. Mark Twain put it this way: History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. As a former Gartner...

Part 1: Mobile Banking and Buying – The Good and the Bad

Banking and buying with your mobile device is powerful and convenient—and in some ways safer than using your bank card. You can check your balance, make secure payments, deposit checks, and transfer funds. You can even connect your debit or credit card to Apple or Google Pay or another payment...

How to Remove Malware from Your MacOS Computer

Who says Macs don’t get viruses? If you think Windows is a virus magnet, the claim that Macs are completely immune to viruses is false. They may be less frequent and common than the Windows variety, but they do exist. But you’re not helpless against the malware onslaught. There are plenty of ways...

FBI Router Reboot Warning: How Do I Stay Safe from the New VPNFilter Malware?

You might have seen reports that the FBI is warning home users of a new foreign cyber-attack campaign targeted at your routers and network-attached storage NAS devices. Here’s a breakdown of exactly what has happened, and what you need to do to keep your home IT systems safe and secure. What is...

A Top Employer in Canada for the Second Year in a Row

Trend Micro has been protecting governments, businesses and consumers from cyber-threats for more than 28 years. Right from the start, our founders were keen to emphasize the important role played by corporations in society as a whole. To that end, we’ve always been an active participant in...

Got AV? Good Start! Now it’s Time to Protect Your Entire Family

We all know cyberspace can be a scary place. That’s why Trend Micro is here to protect your digital life with a range of comprehensive security products. But we’ve noticed that some of our customers are only protecting their main PC or Mac, leaving other devices – especially smartphones – exposed...

Decoding CVE-2023-50164: Unveiling the Apache Struts File Upload Exploit

In this blog entry, we discuss the technical details of CVE-2023-50164, a critical vulnerability that affects Apache Struts 2 and enables unauthorized path traversal...

This Week in Security News: LokiBot Impersonates Popular Game Launcher and DRBControl Espionage Operation Hits Gambling, Betting Companies

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 a variant of LokiBot that has been discovered impersonating a popular game launcher, known for Fortnite, to trick users into...

Third Party Testing of Security is a Very Big Deal for Customers

User Reviews + Test Results Peer reviews are an important part of product selection. Everything I buy on Amazon and most other things I buy I check for reviews first. That’s the “do I like it” or the test-drive part of the selection. But the “how well does it work” part is lab testing. I’m not...

The New Mobile Threat Landscape, circa 2017 to 2018

Submitted by Ian Grutze If mobile threats diversified and expanded in 2016, they matured in 2017. Mobile ransomware continued to rear its head, burgeoning into the platform’s most prevalent threat. Simple screen lockers, for instance, evolved into file-encrypting malware, some of which even seeme...

This Week in Security News: Meltdowns and Hijacks

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, we saw discussions on the vulnerabilities of chat bots and AI programs, and the types of software that may not be safe from malware and...

What are the Benefits of Attribution?

Whodunnit? The superior detective dazzles us with brilliance, skill, and patience to unmask the bad guy. The interplay of forensic science and psychological insight have fascinated us from Sherlock Holmes to the CSI television series. Sometimes the answer is completely surprising, as in Murder on...

SMS PVA Part 3: Countries Most Impacted by Service

In this final part, we discuss the countries most affected by SMS PVA services as well as lay out several recommendations to mitigate the risks of such threats...

This Week in Security News: How Researchers Used an App Store to Demonstrate Hacks on a Factory and Microsoft Again Surpasses 100 Vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday

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 how researchers at Trend Micro used an app store to demonstrate hacks on a manufacturing facility. Also, learn about this month’s...

Cloud Native Application Development Enables New Levels of Security Visibility and Control

We are in unique times and it’s important to support each other through unique ways. Snyk is providing a community effort to make a difference through AllTheTalks.online, and Trend Micro is proud to be a sponsor of their virtual fundraiser and tech conference. In today’s threat landscape new clou...

The Everyday Cyber Threat Landscape: Trends from 2019 to 2020

The past 12 months have been another bumper year for cybercrime affecting everyday users of digital technology. Trend Micro blocked more than 26.8 billion of these threats in the first half of 2019 alone. The bad news is that there are many more out there waiting to steal your personal data for...

This Week in Security News: Latest Cyber Risk Index Shows Elevated Risk of Cyber Attack and IoT Company Wyze Exposes Information of 2.4M Customers

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 Trend Micro’s Cyber Risk Index CRI and its results showing increased cyber risk. Also, read about a data breach from IoT company...

This Week in Security News: Ransomware Campaigns and Cryptocurrency Miners

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 continuing cybersecurity attacks targeting small governments. Also, read how XDR, Trend Micro’s newest solution, is more...

Continuing Education On Cyber Threats And Defenses

Anyone who has been in cybersecurity for any length of time knows, the threat landscape is constantly changing and requires regularly monitoring of news, blogs, podcasts, and other ways to ensure you know what is happening today. I have tried to bring this information to the public since starting...

How Do I Make My Windows 10 Computer Run Faster? (Part 2)

Nobody wants to endure the frustration of a poorly performing laptop or desktop. People just want their machines to work as intended, whenever they switch on or log-in. So whether your home PC is used for shopping, social media, storing important family photos and documents, remote working, or al...

Trend Micro Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms

The endpoint security market is quite dynamic right now, with lots of new entrants, and ongoing innovation for improving threat detection and response. In the midst of all this market energy we are very pleased to be named a Leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platform...

3 Reasons to Use VMware NSX with Trend Micro Deep Security

Enterprises have begun adopting network virtualization for their IT infrastructure. According to a 2016 survey conducted by Accenture, 95 percent of small, medium, and large enterprises believe “network services will be virtualized.” Meanwhile, 25 percent of those who have adopted network...

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...

Introducing ÆSIR: Finding Zero-Day Vulnerabilities at the Speed of AI

TrendAI™’s ÆSIR platform combines AI automation with expert oversight to discover zero-day vulnerabilities in AI infrastructure – 21 CVEs across NVIDIA, Tencent, and MLflow since mid-2025...

Information Stealer Masquerades as LDAPNightmare (CVE-2024-49113) PoC Exploit

Our blog entry discusses a fake PoC exploit for LDAPNightmare CVE-2024-49113 that is being used to distribute information-stealing malware...

Protecting Against RCE Attacks Abusing WhatsUp Gold Vulnerabilities

In this blog entry, we provide an analysis of the recent remote code execution attacks related to Progress Software’s WhatsUp Gold that possibly abused the vulnerabilities CVE-2024-6670 and CVE-2024-6671...

TeamCity Vulnerability Exploits Lead to Jasmin Ransomware, Other Malware Types

CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199 are vulnerabilities within the TeamCity On-Premises platform that can allow attackers to gain administrative control over affected systems...

Smart Check Validated for New Bottlerocket OS

Containers provide a list of benefits to organizations that use them. They’re light, flexible, add consistency across the environment and operate in isolation. However, security concerns prevent some organizations from employing containers. This is despite containers having an extra layer of...

There is a Skills Shortage, But it isn’t Your Real Problem

During my undergraduate days, I recall hearing that the Bell System was slow to deploy automated dialing. While smaller local phone companies allowed callers to dial a number directly from their phone, the Bell system continues to rely on switchboard operators into the 1930s. In fact, early phone...

Research Drives Protection

The threat landscape has changed often in the 22 years I’ve been working at Trend Micro and it will continue to change for many more years. We in cybersecurity are constantly at battle with hackers and threat actors who look to infect our customers using the many tactics available to them. Our jo...

Dr. Cleaner Review 2018: Is it the Best Mac Cleanup App?

"Why choose Dr. Cleaner?" This is a common question that many people want to ask as there were too many cleanup apps for the Mac and many don't know which one is the best one or safe to use. However, do not simply believe that there are no viruses or adware found on the macOS. Once you download...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of August 28, 2017

The only topic I can bring up this week is the devastation in Texas caused by Hurricane Harvey. Many cities have been completely destroyed and to add insult to injury, Harvey moved back to the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall again in Louisiana. Catastrophic flooding has left tens of thousands...

The Jetson’s Cyber Concerns – Future Smart Cities Cybersecurity Checklist

As cities continue to grow smarter, they will also become easier to hack. With millions if not billions of dollars going into research for urban domains and the Internet of Things IoT, there will be more opportunities to utilize technology to define, access and improve smart city services and...

Attacker Abuses Victim Resources to Reap Rewards from Titan Network

In this blog entry, we discuss how an attacker took advantage of the Atlassian Confluence vulnerability CVE-2023-22527 to connect servers to the Titan Network for cryptomining purposes...

Router Roulette: Cybercriminals and Nation-States Sharing Compromised Networks

This blog entry aims to highlight the dangers of internet-facing routers and elaborate on Pawn Storm's exploitation of EdgeRouters, complementing the FBI's advisory from February 27, 2024...

Threat Actor Groups, Including Black Basta, are Exploiting Recent ScreenConnect Vulnerabilities

This blog entry gives a detailed analysis of these recent ScreenConnect vulnerabilities. We also discuss our discovery of threat actor groups, including Black Basta and Bl00dy Ransomware gangs, that are actively exploiting CVE-2024-1708 and CVE-2024-1709 based on our telemetry...

ViperSoftX Updates Encryption, Steals Data

We observed cryptocurrency and information stealer ViperSoftX evading initial loader detection and making its lure more believable by making the initial package loader via cracks, keygens, activators, and packers non-malicious. We also noted more sophisticated encryption and basic anti-analysis...

Workshop: AWS S3 Bucket for Malware Scanning

In this workshop, you will learn how to scan your objects that are being uploaded to Amazon S3 buckets for malware and integrate into your custom workflows, by automating with your current resources, directly in your AWS environment...

Automatic Visibility And Immediate Security with Trend Micro + AWS Control Tower

Things fail. It happens. A core principle of building well in the AWS Cloud is reliability. Dr. Vogels said it best, “How can you reduce the impact of failure on your customers?” He uses the term “blast radius” to describe this principle. One of the key methods for reducing blast radius is the AW...

Getting ATT&CKed By A Cozy Bear And Being Really Happy About It: What MITRE Evaluations Are, and How To Read Them

Full disclosure: I am a security product testing nerd. I’ve been following the MITRE ATT&CK Framework for a while, and this week the results were released of the most recent evaluation using APT29 otherwise known as COZY BEAR. First, here’s a snapshot of the Trend eval results as I understand the...

Tackling the BEC Epidemic in a New Partnership with INTERPOL

In just a few short years, Business Email Compromise BEC has gone from a peripheral threat to a major cyber risk for organizations. It’s making criminal gangs millions of dollars each month, hitting corporate profits and reputation in the process. Trend Micro has built a formidable array of...

This Week in Security News: Security and Privacy Issues

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, understand how Trend Micro Deep Security service will be integrating with AWS Security Hub. Also, learn how to prevent risks and secure...

This Week in Security News: Banks and Botnets

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, the FBI warned U.S. banks of a wide-scale cybercrime campaign called “ATM cash-out,” in which hackers use cloned ATM cards for fraudulent...