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"This is not interpreting the Rosetta Stone," Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) told The Register. "It is a first step towards something more."

Trend Micro recently unveiled Trend Micro One, a uni­fied cybersecurity platform aimed at making it easier for partners and custom­ers to view and assess their attack surfaces and risk postures.

Implementing the NIST standard will take time, as many IoT vendors are still catching up to cybersecurity best practices, with devices often lacking strong authentication capabilities, no easy way to distribute and install patches, and poor visibility into activity, including weak or nonexistent logging, Trend Micro's Malik says.

According to Trend Micro, which has been tracking the malicious activity, the threat actors use a set of heavily obfuscated loaders that exploits an old Intel driver flaw to reduce the token integrity of Microsoft Defender and bypass protections.

Many companies have come and gone in the worlds of technology and cybersecurity over the past three and a half decades, but Trend Micro continues to achieve success and stay focused on its mission.

Researchers from Trend Micro who have been tracking the trend reported a 75% increase in ransomware attacks that targeted Linux systems in the first half of 2022 compared with the prior year.

A federal cybersecurity vendor is spinning up a division dedicated to 5G networks, technology that “threat actors are watching and are looking to exploit,” according to Kevin Simzer, Trend Micro’s chief operating officer.

Describing the activity in a Thursday advisory, Trend Micro researchers Mohamed Fahmy, Sherif Magdy and Mahmoud Zohdy have attributed it to the advanced persistent threat (APT) group the company refers to as APT34.

In a Black Hat USA 2022 session, Dustin Childs and Brian Gorenc, both researchers with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), pointed to multiple issues like the lack of information around a bug's exploitability, its pervasiveness, and how accessible it might be to attack as reasons why CVSS scores alone are not enough.