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Trend Micro Collaborated with Interpol in Cracking Down Grandoreiro Banking Trojan
In this blog entry, we discuss Trend Micro's contributions to an Interpol-coordinated operation to help Brazilian and Spanish law enforcement agencies analyze malware samples of the Grandoreiro banking trojan...
The Fall of LabHost: Law Enforcement Shuts Down Phishing Service Provider
On April 18, 2024, the UK’s Metropolitan Police Service and others conducted an operation that succeeded in taking down the Phishing-as-a-Service provider LabHost...
NCSC Says Newer Threats Need Network Defense Strategy
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Importance of Scanning Files on Uploader Applications
Delve into the crucial practice of file scanning within uploader applications, and learn defensive measures to safeguards against malicious threats like malware...
Cybersecurity Decluttered: A Journey to Consolidation
Learn how far cybersecurity has come from scattered resources to consolidation the future...
How Red Team Exercises Increases Your Cyber Health
Delve into the world of red team exercises, their vital role in enhancing organizational security through simulated cyberattacks, including tactics like phishing and lateral movement within networks, and understand the need for regular testing and improvement to counter evolving threats effective...
Fileless Attacks Prompt Intel’s Next-Gen Security
Discover how Trend is strengthening its endpoint solutions to detect fileless attacks earlier. By leveraging Intel Threat Detection Technology, Trend enhances the scalability and resiliency of its solutions...
Cyberespionage Group Earth Hundun's Continuous Refinement of Waterbear and Deuterbear
Our blog entry provides an in-depth analysis of Earth Hundun's Waterbear and Deuterbear malware...
Why a Cloud Security Platform Approach is Critical
Explore how a cybersecurity platform with attack surface management and runtime protection capabilities can enhance your cloud security posture...
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...
Earth Freybug Uses UNAPIMON for Unhooking Critical APIs
This article provides an in-depth look into two techniques used by Earth Freybug actors: dynamic-link library DLL hijacking and application programming interface API unhooking to prevent child processes from being monitored via a new malware we’ve discovered and dubbed UNAPIMON...
Agenda Ransomware Propagates to vCenters and ESXi via Custom PowerShell Script
This blog entry discusses the Agenda ransomware group's use of its latest Rust variant to propagate to VMWare vCenter and ESXi servers...
NIST Launches Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0
On February 26, 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST released the official 2.0 version of the Cyber Security Framework CSF...
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...
Jenkins Args4j CVE-2024-23897: Files Exposed, Code at Risk
Jenkins, a popular open-source automation server, was discovered to be affected by a file read vulnerability, CVE-2024-23897...
Earth Krahang Exploits Intergovernmental Trust to Launch Cross-Government Attacks
Since early 2022, we have been monitoring an APT campaign that targets several government entities worldwide, with a strong focus in Southeast Asia, but also seen targeting Europe, America, and Africa...
The Dynamic DoS Threat
ENISA Report Unveils a Complex Cyber Landscape...
A Necessary Digital Odyssey of RPA and AI/ML at HUD
Explore two RPA and AI/ML use cases at HUD during the operational challenges of the longest US Government shutdown, a rigid legacy IT environment, and complex federal regulations...
CVE-2024-21412: DarkGate Operators Exploit Microsoft Windows SmartScreen Bypass in Zero-Day Campaign
In addition to our Water Hydra APT zero day analysis, the Zero Day Initiative ZDI observed a DarkGate campaign which we discovered in mid-January 2024 where DarkGate operators exploited CVE-2024-21412...
A Necessary Digital Odyssey of RPA and AI/ML at HUD
Explore two RPA and AI/ML use cases at HUD during the operational challenges of the longest US Government shutdown, a rigid legacy IT environment, and complex federal regulations...
AI Auctions: Collectibles, Taylor Swift, Jordan Bots
Discover the fascinating world of AI, ML, and RPA and their real-world applications including the creation of a custom RPA bot for collecting rare sports memorabilia...
Unveiling Earth Kapre aka RedCurl’s Cyberespionage Tactics With Trend Micro MDR, Threat Intelligence
This blog entry will examine Trend Micro MDR team's investigation that successfully uncovered the intrusion sets employed by Earth Kapre in a recent incident, as well as how the team leveraged threat intelligence to attribute the extracted evidence to the cyberespionage threat group...
AI Auctions: Collectibles, Taylor Swift, Jordan Bots
Discover the fascinating world of AI, ML, and RPA and their real-world applications including the creation of a custom RPA bot for collecting rare sports memorabilia...
Multistage RA World Ransomware Uses Anti-AV Tactics, Exploits GPO
The Trend Micro threat hunting team came across an RA World attack involving multistage components designed to ensure maximum impact...
Managing Cyber Risk for Under-Pressure CISOs
Overworked CISOs are struggling to deliver the cybersecurity results their organizations expect. Fortunately, there are concrete and practical ways they can make their lives easier—while managing cyber risk effectively...
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...
Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections
During our monitoring of Earth Lusca, we noticed a new campaign that used Chinese-Taiwanese relations as a social engineering lure to infect selected targets...
LockBit Attempts to Stay Afloat With a New Version
This research is the result of our collaboration with the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom, who took action against LockBit as part of Operation Cronos, an international effort resulting in the undermining of its operations...
Exploring Changing SOC Landscapes
The landscape of cybersecurity is continuously evolving, with new threats emerging and the roles and responsibilities of security professionals constantly adapting...
Trend Micro and INTERPOL Join Forces Again for Operation Synergia
Trend and other private entities recently contributed to INTERPOL’s Operation Synergia, a global operation that successfully took down over 1,000 C&C servers and identified suspects related to phishing, banking malware, and ransomware activity...
Decoding Digital Transformation: AI, ML, and RPA in the Modern Era
Explore the first article in this series about AI, ML, and RPA, which aims to demystify and explore the full spectrum of these core technologies...
Decoding Digital Transformation: AI, ML, and RPA in the Modern Era
Explore the first article in this series about AI, ML, and RPA, which aims to demystify and explore the full spectrum of these core technologies...
Earth Preta Campaign Uses DOPLUGS to Target Asia
In this blog entry, we focus on Earth Preta's campaign that employed a variant of the DOPLUGS malware to target Asian countries...
Cyber Risk Management: Bring Security to the Boardroom
Discover how to strategically present security controls to the board to better manage cyber risk...
CVE-2024-21412: Water Hydra Targets Traders with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Zero-Day
The APT group Water Hydra has been exploiting the zero-day 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...
Global Cybersecurity Trends: AI, Geopolitical Risks, and Zero Trust
Trend Micro’s Chief Technology Strategy Officer discusses the biggest cybersecurity trends and what to watch for in 2024...
Global Cybersecurity Trends: AI, Geopolitical Risks, and Zero Trust
Trend Micro’s Chief Technology Strategy Officer discusses the biggest cybersecurity trends and what to watch for in 2024...
SmartScreen Vulnerability: CVE-2024-21412 Facts and Fixes
This entry aims to provide additional context to CVE-2024-21412, how it can be used by threat actors, and how Trend protects customers from this specific vulnerability...
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...
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...
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...
A Deepfake Scammed a Bank out of $25M — Now What?
A finance worker in Hong Kong was tricked by a deepfake video conference. The future of defending against deepfakes is as much as human challenge as a technological one...
Unveiling Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2023-22527: Understanding and Mitigating Remote Code Execution Risks
In this blog entry, we discuss CVE-2023-22527, a vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence that has a CVSS score of 10 and could allow threat actors to perform remote code execution...
Unifying Cloud Security Beyond Siloes
Attacks don’t stay in siloes, and neither should your security solutions. Explore the benefits of a cybersecurity platform that consolidates security across multiple layers—including the cloud—for more proactive risk management...
Unifying Cloud Security Beyond Siloes
Attacks don’t stay in siloes, and neither should your security solutions. Explore the benefits of a cybersecurity platform that consolidates security across multiple layers—including the cloud—for more proactive risk management...
Smarter, Meaner, Sneakier: Security Trends for 2024
Learn how hackers are getting smarter, ruder, meaner, and sneakier and what to do about it with this overview of cybersecurity trends in 2024...
Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets
Based on our estimates, from approximately April 2022 until November 2023, Pawn Storm attempted to launch NTLMv2 hash relay attacks through different methods, with huge peaks in the number of targets and variations in the government departments that it targeted...
Prevent BEC with AI-Powered Email and Collaboration
Latest Trend Vision One™ platform integration addresses growing need for streamlined IT and security operations across email and messaging environments...
Kasseika Ransomware Deploys BYOVD Attacks, Abuses PsExec and Exploits Martini Driver
In this blog, we detail our investigation of the Kasseika ransomware and the indicators we found suggesting that the actors behind it have acquired access to the source code of the notorious BlackMatter ransomware...