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Are IoT Threats Discussed In The Cybercriminal Underground?
With IoT devices expected to reach tens of billions in the next few years, is it any wonder that cybercriminals are looking for ways to take advantage of this massive attack surface to generate illicit money? A number of Trend Micro researchers from around the globe decided to look into this and...
This Week in Security News: New Zero-Day Vulnerability Findings and Mobile Phishing 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 how music festival goers need to be on guard for phishing attacks when trying to find a lost iPhone. Also, read how Trend Micro...
Finding a Better Route to Router and Home Network Security
When was the last time you looked at your home router? We tend to only notice these magical boxes when something goes wrong. And given that many of us get our router as part of a single broadband box technically known as a gateway, combining modem and router in one device, there’s even less...
This Week in Security News: Ransomware Campaigns Persist with WannaCry as Most Common
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 a total of 118 new ransomware families emerged in the first half of 2018, but only 47 new ones debuted in the first six mont...
Three Common Email Security Mistakes That MSPs Make
MSPs can generate recurring revenue by being proactive about educating customers about email threats and how to defeat them—if they avoid three common mistakes. Businesses have come to rely on cloud email and file-sharing applications for communication and productivity. But, too often, they assum...
Behind the Scenes of an Email Attack
Get a glimpse into the damage an email attack can cause and amount of work it takes to investigate it—if you don’t have the right tools...
Trend Micro Named A Leader in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms
Leadership. It’s a weighty term, although frequently it is used too lightly and all too often it’s a self-declared position. We believe, leaders can come and go, and leadership can be fleeting depending on the factors for long term success. It is for all these reasons, that we are proud, not only...
This Week in Security News: DevOps Implementation Concerns and Malware Variants
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 most respondents to a Trend Micro survey shared their concern for the risks in implementing DevOps. Also, read on about how...
The Sky Has Already Fallen (you just haven’t seen the alert yet)
Of course, the much-touted “Cybersecurity Skills Shortage” isn’t news to anyone, or it shouldn’t be. For seven or more years, journalists, industry analysts and practitioners have been opining about it one way or another. Analyses and opinions vary on how we have reached this impasse, my own bein...
FAKE APPS!—courtesy of Agent Smith
As new mobile malware sweeps the globe, here’s how to keep your device secure. We’re spending more and more of our lives online and for most of us the door to this digital world is our smartphone. It’s the first thing we look at when we wake up and the last thing we check at night. It’s where we ...
This Week in Security News: Phishing Campaigns and a Biometric Data Breach
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 ever-increasing amounts of phishing campaigns and how Trend Micro caught 2.4 million attacks of this type — a 59% increase from...
How Do Threats Align With Detection And Solutions?
There are many different threats targeting many different areas of a corporate network. Have you ever wondered how those threats are stopped? What threats impact which areas of a network? What technology detects and blocks those threats? I wanted to build an interactive graphic to answer those...
XDR Is The Best Remedy As Attackers Increasingly Seek To Evade EDR
Real enterprises are messy places. One messy reality is that enterprises don’t manage all their endpoints. A smart colleague turned me onto using the % of endpoints and servers managed as a prime security metric. On one end of the spectrum are places like universities that maybe manage 10% of the...
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...
This Week in Security News: Phishing Campaigns and a Biometric Data Breach
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 ever-increasing amounts of phishing campaigns and how Trend Micro caught 2.4 million attacks of this type — a 59% increase from...
Customer Perspective: Catching the thief lurking in the shadows with EDR and MDR
A guest blog by Ian Loe, Senior Vice President, Cybersecurity, NTUC Enterprise Co-operative Limited News flash: aided by time, persistence and smarts, advanced cybersecurity felons are leapfrogging traditional security systems to compromise confidential data. Realising this, we at NTUC Enterprise...
Cyberattack Lateral Movement Explained
Lightly edited transcript of the video above Hi there, Mark Nunnikhoven from Trend Micro Research, I want to talk to you about the concept of lateral movement. And the reason why I want to tackle this today is because I've had some conversations in the last few days that have really kind of hit...
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...
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...
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...
XDR Needs Network Data and Here’s Why
As we’ve discussed in previous blogs, XDR is a better way to detect attacks within a network since it is able to coordinate and collaborate threat intelligence and data across multiple threat vectors, including endpoint including mobile and IIoT, server, network, messaging, web, and cloud. In thi...
Digital skimmers: What are they and how can I keep my card details safe online?
A few weeks ago, British Airways was hit by the largest ever regulatory fine of its kind, after global customers visiting its website had their card data stolen. The $228m penalty levied by the UK’s privacy watchdog reflects the seriousness of the attack and the carrier’s failure to protect its...
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 three different ransomware campaigns that caused havoc in different public sectors. Also, read how threat actors are infecting...
Will XDR Improve Security?
Cybercriminals and malicious hackers have been shifting their tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs to improve their ability to infiltrate an organization and stay under the radar of security professionals and solutions. Moving to more targeted attack methods appears to be a mainstay among...
Windows Server 2008 End of Support: Are you Prepared?
On July 14th, 2015, Microsoft’s widely deployed Windows Server 2003 reached end of life after nearly 12 years of support. For millions of enterprise servers, this meant the end of security updates, leaving the door open to serious security risks. Now, we are fast approaching the end of life of...
This Week in Security News: Unpatched Systems and Lateral Phishing
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 an attack against Elasticsearch that delivers backdoors as its payload. Additionally, read how cybercriminals are turning to...
This Week in Security News: Spam Campaigns and Mobile 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 about a mobile malware that infects Android devices by exploiting the vulnerabilities found within the operating system. Also, read...
How Will Companies Deploy Industrial IoT Security Solutions?
Industrial IoT IIoT devices will comprise the majority of the billions of IoT devices deployed over the next decade. How will the information security market meet this onslaught of technology? The consumer market is not a useful guide for this analysis. Consumers buy in small quantities and choos...
New Azure Marketplace Pay-As-You-Go Billing for Trend Micro Deep Security as a Service
Cloud adoption continues to rise as organizations reduce their data center footprint, look to cloud native technologies to improve their application design and output, and strive to improve scalability and management of resources and systems. In a recent survey conducted by analyst firm ESG, 87% ...
This Week in Security News: Banking Malware and Phishing Campaigns
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 the banking malware Anubis that has been retooled for use in fresh attack waves. Also, read about a new phishing campaign that...
Migrating Network Protection to the Cloud with Confidence
For modern organizations, speed and agility is the key to success – built on enhanced IT efficiency and performance driven by the cloud. Anything less could see your business outpaced by the competition. As always, security must be a priority when migrating to the cloud, but network teams are bei...
Where Will Ransomware Go In The Second Half Of 2019?
Ransomware has been an evolutionary malware family that continues to shift and change over the years. From the first fakeAV, to police ransomware, to the now oft-used crypto-ransomware, this threat just will not go away. Based on the latest trends, we predict this threat will grow in the second...
Trend Micro Named Best Company To Work For In Taiwan
Trend Micro prides itself on caring first about people – both in our external mission and internally with our employees. As this issue is close to the hearts of our executives, we are always very proud to be recognized by related awards. The HR Asia Awards Taiwan recently named Trend Micro as one...
This Week in Security News: Malvertising and Internet of Things 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 about a new Internet of Things malware that’s bricked thousands of devices. Also, read about a ransomware family that’s using...
AWS re:Inforce 2019 re:Cap
The inaugural AWS Cloud security conference—AWS re:Inforce—was held in Boston this week. Well over 8,000 attendees descended on the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for two days jammed packed with security education and cloud content. This was a very interesting conference because the...
Three Network Security Questions with CEITEC’s CIO
Ireneo Demanarig is the Chief Information Officer at CEITEC S.A. located in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. CEITEC is a microelectronics manufacturer that specializes in solutions such as automatic identification RFID and smartcards, application-specific integrated circuits ASICs aimed a...
Essential Strategies for Securing Smart Factories
With Industry 4.0, manufacturing organizations need to recognize the unique threats and risks facing them, and strategize towards addressing them...
This Week in Security News: Cyberespionage Campaigns and Botnet 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 about a cyberespionage campaign targeting Middle Eastern countries and a botnet malware that infiltrates containers via exposed Docker...
Movie Tech Review: Child’s Play 2019
A while back, Rik & Kasia Ferguson shared their thoughts on the movie, “Unfriended: The Dark Web.” The dark web and technology in general plays a pivotal role in the movie's plot, so the team decided it would be interesting to have a real-world expert review. Everyone had a lot of fun, and thus...
Hackers Are After Your Personal Data – Here’s How to Stop Them
Our lives are increasingly digital. We shop, socialize, communicate, watch TV and play games — all from the comfort of our desktop, laptop, or mobile device. But to access most of these services we need to hand over some of our personal data. Whether it’s just our name and email address or more...
This Week in Security News: Spam 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 advanced targeted attack tools being used to distribute cryptocurrency miners as well as a spam campaign targeting European user...
This Week in Security News: Gray Alerts and Wormable 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 about the new wormable malware that’s dropping a Monero miner in web servers, networks and removable drivers. Also, read about the bes...
WiFi Protection in Public Places
WiFi Internet has added much convenience to our daily lives, with its easy accessibility in public places such as restaurants, hotels, and cafes; malls, parks, and even in airplanes, where we can connect online for faster transactions and communication. Like any online technology, however, it’s...
This Week in Security News: Trickbots and Infected Containers
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 a Trickbot attacked a school district’s networks and how infected cryptocurrency-mining containers target docker hosts with expose...
This Week in Security News: Tax Scams and Spam Emails
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 criminals can use tax deadlines for social engineering schemes and redirection URLs in spam emails to sidestep spam filters. Read...
Strategic Guidance for CISOs on Cybersecurity
Leading analyst firm ESG highlights three key cybersecurity focus areas along with actionable advice for CISOs...
Keep Your Smart Home Safe: Here’s What You Can Do Today to Secure Your Products
The Internet of Things IoT is transforming the way we live, work and play. You can find it in the fitness trackers you might be wearing to monitor step count and heart rate. Or the car you may be driving. But more than anywhere else, you’ll see IoT at home in an increasing array of gadgets: from...
Celebrating the Next Generation of Technology Innovators
At Trend Micro, it’s our mission to secure the connected world. However, we want to go beyond the boundaries of the cybersecurity industry to support and learn from the technology innovators of tomorrow. That’s what our venture arm, Trend Forward Capital, is all about. As part of these efforts, w...
This Week in Security News: Unsecured Servers and Vulnerable Processors
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 vulnerabilities that can allow hackers to retrieve data from CPUs and mine cryptocurrency. Read on: May’s Patch Tuesday Include...
Why You Should Pick a Leader for Your Enterprise Email Security
Email is a mature technology, but threats targeting email are evolving and getting more sophisticated. 97%1 of ransomware attacks come from email. That’s why there are so many email security vendors and solutions in the market offering different types of technologies and coverages. Picking the be...