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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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Separate but similar campaigns described by Microsoft and Trend Micro use malicious zip files to spread malware via social engineering and obsfucation, including blockchain abuse.
China-linked FishMonger used two SprySOCKS Windows variants that leveraged kernel drivers and the Print Spooler to target governments in four countries. ESET researchers have found two previously undocumented Windows versions of SprySOCKS, a backdoor that the security community had until now treated as Linux-only. Trend Micro first documented the Linux variant in September 2023 and […]
Two Russia-aligned cyber attack campaigns have continued to exploit a security flaw in WinRAR to target Ukrainian organisations, almost a year after patches for the vulnerability were released
Former Forescout CEO, Trend Micro COO Mohamed Succeeds Corey Thomas After 13 YearsRapid7 has appointed former Forescout CEO Wael Mohamed as chief executive, betting that a renewed focus on AI-driven security operations can revive growth and investor confidence after years of slowing revenue, shrinking valuation and activist shareholder pressure.
Japanese cybersecurity software company Trend Micro has addressed an Apex One zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks targeting Windows systems. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new China-aligned espionage campaign targeting government and defense sectors across South, East, and Southeast Asia, along with one European government belonging to NATO
The Russian threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard and Pawn Storm) has been linked to a fresh spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukraine and its allies to deploy a previously undocumented malware suite codenamed PRISMEX
A multi-pronged phishing campaign is targeting Spanish-speaking users in organizations across Latin America and Europe to deliver Windows banking trojans like Casbaneiro (aka Metamorfo) via another malware called Horabot
Trend Micro has patched two critical Apex One vulnerabilities that allow attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable Windows systems. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a JScript-based command-and-control (C2) framework called PeckBirdy that has been put to use by China-aligned APT actors since 2023 to target multiple environments
AI is changing cybercrime in a big way. Autonomous AI agents could soon carry out entire attacks on their own -scanning servers, testing vulnerabilities, refining exploits and even launching phishing campaigns from start to finish, said David Sancho, senior threat researcher at Trend Micro.
Japanese cybersecurity software firm Trend Micro has patched a critical security flaw in Apex Central (on-premise) that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. [...]
Trend Micro has released security updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities impacting on-premise versions of Apex Central for Windows, including a critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution
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AI is changing cybercrime in a big way. Autonomous AI agents could soon carry out entire attacks on their own -scanning servers, testing vulnerabilities, refining exploits and even launching phishing campaigns from start to finish, said David Sancho, senior threat researcher at Trend Micro.
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