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The researchers, who work for security firm Synacktiv, found the vulnerabilities and showcased them at the Pwn2Own conference in Vancouver last week.

Over the course of my career, I’ve seen private equity and M&A be a detriment to the growth of peer companies—motivating me to protect Trend Micro’s growth by deliberately focusing on building internally.

The ChatGPT AI bot has spurred speculation about how hackers might use it and similar tools to attack faster and more effectively, though the more damaging exploits so far have been in laboratories.

Trend Micro has said it stopped 146 billion cyber-threats in 2022, a 55% increase on the previous year and evidence of cyber-criminals widening their efforts to companies of all sizes and sectors.

During its time, DoppelPaymer was “a textbook of the more successful crews that had been doing ransomware attacks,” Ed Cabrera, chief cybersecurity officer at Trend Micro, told me.

As we've noted before, the infosec world moves at a glacial pace toward gender equity. It appears that's not the case in the cyber criminal underground, according to Trend Micro, which recently published a study in which it claims at least 30 percent – if not more – of cyber criminal forum users are women.

Play ransomware, also known as PlayCrypt, first came to light in June 2022. TrendMicro has noted similarities with the Hive and Nokoyawa ransomware groups, suggesting "a high probability of affiliation between these ransomware families."

According to Feike Hacquebord, a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, some of his peers’ reluctance to discuss attribution comes from the confusion between technical attribution, which consists in identifying sets of threat activity and analyzing patterns, and legal or political attribution, which links these sets to nation-states – and can sometimes lead to the prosecution of individuals.

According to a survey conducted by Trend Micro Incorporated, 86% of global healthcare organizations’ operations have suffered operational outages as a direct ransomware attack on their organization.

Trend Micro is acquiring Anlyz, a provider of security operations center (SOC) technology. This latest Trend Micro acquisition will enable enterprises and MSSPs to improve operational efficiencies, cost effectiveness and security outcomes.