Trend Micro Internet Security Wins a “Best Protection” Award for 2018 from AV-TEST

February 21, 2019. If the main criterion for judging the value of a security application is how well it protects your computer from web and email threats, malware and viruses, then both users and potential users of Trend Micro Internet Security will be happy to hear that the product has been give...

This Week in Security News: Malware and Machine Learning

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 infectious miner-malware and how malware can hide form AV Solutions. Also, understand how to use machine learning to detect...

Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac 2019 is Certified by AV-TEST with Top Scores for Protection, Performance, and Usability

Current and potential users of the latest edition of Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac v9.0, for 2019 will be pleased to know that it achieved MacOS Certification and top scores in all three categories in the recent AV-TEST Product Review and Certification Report – Dec/2018. Trend Micro Antivirus for...

A Game of Risk with Broadcasters, Cyber Felons and Dragons

Submitted by Steve Ng, Lead, Digital Platform Operations, Mediacorp Where there’s money, there has always been crime. But what if money came in the form of intangible digital assets and crime in the form of cyber adversaries? In fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, dragons are intelligen...

This Week in Security News: Cloud Risks and Container Vulnerability

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 this year’s current uses and emerging risks of the cloud. Also, find out what new vulnerability was found in containers. Read on...

Don’t Blame Employees who fall for a BEC scam!

The BBC reports that a media company based in Scotland is now suing a former employee who fell for a Business Email Compromise BEC scam. In the scam, the employee received emails which appeared to be from the managing director and requested wire transfers. The employee worked with her line manage...

Part 2: Mobile Banking and Buying: Best Practices

In the first part of this two-part blog, we outlined the kinds of banking and buying you can do on your mobile device, but also the things to watch out for. You might have noticed that our cautionary notes center around four threat vectors you need to track to stay safe: device, app, network, and...

The Cloud in 2019: Current Uses and Emerging Risks

In the current tech landscape, one would be hard-pressed to find an organization that operates without the help of cloud environments and capabilities. From data storage and document sharing to enabling remote access and communication, the cloud represents the most critical linchpin of today's...

Attacking Containers and runC

This week a new vulnerability was published CVE-2019-5736 that highlights everything bad and good about containers. Simply put, this vulnerability can be exploited using an infected container to attack the host. It’s a real world example of a breakout attack that has long been a major concern in...

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...

Cyber Risk Index – A Guide for CISOs and IT Security

Trend Micro has partnered with the Ponemon Institute to develop a new Cyber Risk Index CRI, which is intended to help CISOs and their IT Security teams better understand the current cyber risk compared to similar businesses of their size and industry. The CRI is based on a survey conducted by...

Announcing Trend Micro Security for Microsoft Edge

Browsing the web securely with Microsoft Edge the browser recommended by Microsoft for Windows 10 users and the default browser in Windows 10 S-mode is a safer bet than ever before with Trend Micro Security for Microsoft Edge—a unique three-in-one browser extension that provides web threat...

This Week in Security News: Consumer Data and 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 what security issues and critical threats will impact consumer data this year. Also, learn about a malicious Adobe app targeting macOS...

Trend Micro Security’s 2019 Release Protects You Better Than Ever Against Ransomware, Coin-mining, Banking, and E-Commerce Threats

2019 has barely gotten started, but by Q4 of 2018 Trend Micro had already seen a 956% increase in coin-mining malware detections for the year-to-date—right alongside the persistent threat of ransomware and online banking and e-commerce hacks designed to steal your identity or your money. Folks ca...

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...

Keys to Safeguarding Consumer Data in 2019

Businesses and providers typically collect certain details from their customers in order to support service delivery. This information has always been a top target for hackers, but given the high level and rising sophistication of threats, it's more imperative than ever to ensure it's protected...

Collaborating with Law Enforcement to Tackle the Scourge of ATM Attacks

At Trend Micro, we’ve always been keen to collaborate with law enforcement. While we do our best to protect our customers from the latest threats, it’s only with concerted cross-border police action against the perpetrators of these crimes that we can hope to swing the pendulum back in our favor...

This Week in Security News: Hacker Strategies and Spyware Attacks

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 hackers are improving their breach strategies. Also, learn about new spyware attacks via URLs, websites, and mobile apps. Re...

What Enterprise Leaders Should know about Persistent Threats in 2019

Staving off critical threats in the current cybersecurity landscape is a tall order for any size organization. As hackers continually shift and improve upon their attack and breach strategies, IT and security stakeholders must do their best to keep up and remain informed of these trends. This is...

How Machine Learning can Expose and Illustrate Network Threats

Although machine learning algorithms have been around for years, additional use cases are being discovered and applied all the time, particularly when it comes to network and data security. As years have passed, the skills and sophisticated approaches being utilized by hackers have risen in...

Informing Your Security Posture: How Cybercriminals Blend into the Background

Maintaining protection over an enterprise's critical data, systems and assets is a continual uphill battle. Not only are chances good that the business's digital footprint is growing through new applications, but hackers are also constantly bolstering their capabilities to silently breach platfor...

This Week in Security News: Ransomware and Cyber Threats

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 new routines for encryption of JobCrypter ransomware. Also, understand how Emotet has managed to evolve into one of the most...

Impacts to Enterprise Security: A Look at as-a-service Attacks

Ever since certain solutions have begun being offered "as-a-service," the market for this method of delivery has exploded. Now, elements like software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service are key mainstay components of enterprise IT, with the market values to prove...

Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Roadways: How Smart Cities Create New Risks

Advanced technology has changed countless facets of everyday life, from internal enterprise processes to consumer pursuits and beyond. Even the design, management and support for large and small cities has shifted thanks to innovative smart city systems. While advanced components to support...

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...

This Week in Security News: Risky Radio Remotes and Cybercrime

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 new research on radio frequency technology and the risks of radio remote controllers. Also, understand why there i...

This Week in Security News: Adware and Ransomware

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 adware that disguised itself as different apps and monitors mobile devices. Also, learn more about the different ransomware...

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,...

This Week in Security News: Spyware and Data 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, learn about a spyware that disguised itself as an Android application to gather information from users. Also, find out the biggest global da...

Server Security for the Modern IT Ecosystem

A Changing Landscape In recent years we’ve seen a fundamental shift in the IT landscape, accelerated towards cloud and containerized infrastructures. According to Forbes, by 2020 it is predicted that 83 percent of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud. Moving beyond the cloud, software...

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...

Why it’s Time to Switch from Facebook Login to a Password Manager

Social media sites are increasingly the focus of our digital lives. Not only do we share, interact and post on platforms like Facebook —we also use these sites to quickly log into our favorite apps and websites. But what happens when these social media gatekeepers are hacked? Awhile back, Faceboo...

This Week in Security News: Deep Dives and NASA Data

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 span of a NASA hack that leaked data for current and former employees. Also, Trend Micro dives deep into the underground...

Keep Your Online Transactions Secure with Trend Micro Security’s Pay Guard Browser

Nowadays, online transactions are often under threat from malware and browser injections that would steal your identity data or your money as you log in to your favorite banking, financial, or commercial accounts. Trend Micro’s new Pay Guard Browser, available with all three 2019 PC editions of...

This Week in Security News: Security Predictions and Malware Attacks

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 span of categories for Trend Micro’s 2019 Security Predictions. Also, learn about a new exploit kit that targets home or sma...

2019 Security Predictions Report Released

What Makes For Really Good Security Predictions Each year Trend Micro releases its annual Security Predictions Report. Good security predictions are very difficult to develop, and companies and consumers need to be selective about the security advice they take. What makes a good security...

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...

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...

Securing Smart Manufacturing with Connected Threat Defense

By David Tay, the CIO of Beyonics You’d be hard pushed to find any organization today not involved in digital transformation projects. But the manufacturing sector was arguably one of the first to the game. Back in 2011, the German government first coined the term Industry 4.0 to describe the...

30 Years of Trend Micro

This year marks 30 years of Trend Micro. That’s three decades of working to make the world safe for exchanging digital information in a constantly changing technology and cyber threat environment. Our founders often reference the humble beginnings of the company – starting from a garage in...

Parlez-vous Machine?

Have you ever heard of the MQTT or CoAP protocols? No? Well the device on your wrist, and so many devices around you, could be using them right now. MQTT and CoAP are machine-to-machine or M2M protocols. With the rise of the internet of things IoT and operational technology OT, there’s increased...

This Week in Security News: Ethics and Law in the Dark Web

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 Trend Micro software can aid in safely securing containers on the AWS Cloud. Also, how the dark web has become a new advertising...

AWS Security Hub and Deep Security

One of the biggest challenges in maintaining your security posture is visibility. You have security controls deployed throughout the stack, and each fo these tools is generating its own set of data points and has its own view of your deployment. Managing the multitude of alerts and events from...

Today’s Data Breach Environment: An Overview

By now, companies and consumers alike are well aware of the threat of a data breach. Large and small businesses across every sector have been targeted, and many customers are now familiar with the notification that their username, password or other details might have been compromised. The...

Securing Containers in The AWS Cloud with Trend Micro

Rapid adoption of containers is changing the way that businesses build their applications. Services like Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate let builders focus on solving business problems instead of managing infrastructure. But the move to containers also requires a shift in how you approach...

AWS Helping to Unlock Potentially Life-saving Innovation for the Healthcare Sector – While Keeping Sensitive Information Locked Down

Marnie Wilking – CISO, VP Information Assurance, Orion Health Many of the next significant, potentially lifesaving discoveries that will happen in healthcare will be the direct result of big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Making the shift to big data, machine learning and...

Inspiring Gender Diversity at Women of the Channel Leadership Summit

At Trend Micro we’re proud to be walking the talk on gender diversity — from our co-founder and CEO, Eva Chen, all the way down. It’s always been a keen part of our corporate culture, from the very beginning 30 years ago. But we also realize that there’s still a major diversity challenge facing t...

Closing the Gap: An Exciting Initiative to Drive More Gender Diversity in Tech

We all know there’s a global IT skills crisis. In cybersecurity things are even worse, with a shortfall of nearly three million roles estimated today — 500,000 of which are in North America. Today women comprise just 24% of the workforce yet half of the global population. Why is this? Women were...

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...

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...