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Trend Micro is a cybersecurity vendor whose products protect endpoints, email, networks, cloud workloads, and consumer devices. It also publishes threat intelligence and vulnerability research. News under this tag may therefore concern security software vulnerabilities, product updates, malware campaigns, or research that helps defenders identify and investigate attacks.
For security teams, the vendor’s agents and management consoles can have broad access to systems, so flaws in them may enable tampering, privilege escalation, or evasion of detection; reviewing advisories and applying supported updates is important. Detection rules and threat reports should be tested against internal telemetry before being used for blocking or incident response. Organizations using hosted services should also assess what endpoint or network data is collected, how long it is retained, who can access it, and whether those practices meet privacy and contractual requirements.
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State-backed crews are already poking at autonomous tools, Trend Micro warns Cybercriminals, including ransomware crews, will lean more heavily on agentic AI next year as attackers automate more of their operations, Trend Micro's researchers believe.…
Operation Cronos didn’t kill LockBit – it just came back meaner Trend Micro has sounded the alarm over the new LockBit 5.0 ransomware strain, which it warns is "significantly more dangerous" than past versions due to its newfound ability to simultaneously target Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi environments. …
PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more! Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro's Apex One endpoint security platform is under active exploitation, the company admitted last week, and there's no patch available.…
No formal attribution made but two separate probes hint at the same suspect Thousands of Asus routers are currently ensnared by a new botnet that is trying to disable Trend Micro security features before exploiting vulnerabilities for backdoor access.…
In effect: 'Ha ha – the government is borked and so are you' Ransomware scumbags - potentially those behind the Fog gang - are channeling their inner Elon Musk with their latest ransom note, spotted by researchers at Trend Micro.…
'Only' a local access bug but important part of N Korea, Russia, and China attack picture An exploitation avenue found by Trend Micro has been used in an eight-year-long spying campaign, but there's no sign of a fix from Microsoft, which apparently considers this a low priority.…
Plus, a brand-new backdoor, GhostSpider, is linked to the cyber-spy crew's operations The reach of the China-linked Salt Typhoon gang extends beyond American telecommunications giants, and its arsenal includes several backdoors, including a brand-new malware dubbed GhostSpider, according to Trend Micro researchers.…
Attacks on unprotected servers reach 'critical level' An unknown attacker is abusing exposed Docker Remote API servers to deploy perfctl cryptomining malware on victims' systems, according to Trend Micro researchers.…
ALSO: SEC admits to X account negligence; New macOS malware family appears; and some critical vulns Infosec in brief Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) held its first-ever automotive-focused Pwn2Own event in Tokyo last week, and awarded over $1.3 million to the discoverers of 49 vehicle-related zero day vulnerabilities.…
This RomCom is no laughing matter A change in the deployment of the RomCom malware strain has illustrated the blurring distinction between cyberattacks motivated by money and those fueled by geopolitics, in this case Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, according to Trend Micro analysts.…
The threat is coming from inside the supply chain Black Hat Asia Threat groups have infected millions of Androids worldwide with malicious firmware before the devices have even been shipped from their manufacturers, according to Trend Micro researchers at Black Hat Asia.…
Follina was all very exciting, but did you patch CVE-2022-30136? Trend Micro Research has published an anatomy of a Windows remote code execution vulnerability lurking in the Network File System.…
Trend Micro says vulnerable systems in Singapore have been compromised There has been a land rush of sorts among threat groups trying to use the vulnerability discovered in the open-source Spring Framework last month, and now researchers at Trend Micro are saying it's being actively exploited to execute the Mirai botnet.…
Kremlin-backed Sandworm found a VPNFilter replacement Cyclops Blink malware has infected ASUS routers in what Trend Micro says looks like an attempt to turn compromised devices into command-and-control servers for future attacks.…