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"Every place we move to in technology creates a seam for bad actors," said Trend Micro's chief security officer, Ed Cabrera, whose company sells IT security services and issues reports on global cyber trends.

A trio of researchers, representing a team from Politecnico di Milano and Trend Micro, presented their findings on the security of robots.

The arrest of Vinnik adds a new twist to the case against Karpeles, the former head of Mt. Gox, said Mark Nunnikhoven, vice president of cloud research at Trend Micro.

"If you look at the demands they are relatively low — they are in the ballpark of what people can afford to pay," says Bharat Mistry, a Trend Micro cybersecurity consultant. In fact, 65 percent of companies pay a ransom when they are hit by ransomware, according to Trend Micro's research.

A piece of malware spotted by Trend Micro in early July leverages the SambaCry vulnerability to target NAS devices, particularly ones used by small and medium-size businesses.

The tools tactics and procedures used by hacking group CopyKittens are explained in a new in-depth report produced in collaboration by cyber-security firms Trend Micro and ClearSky.

“The data GhostCtrl steals is extensive, compared to other Android info-stealers,” explained Trend Micro cyber security researchers.

A Samba remote code execution flaw patched in May is being exploited to compromise IoT devices running on different architectures, Trend Micro researchers warn.

The GhostCtrl RAT was discovered by Trend Micro researchers part of a wave of attacks against Israeli healthcare organizations.

Simon Edwards, European cyber security architect at Trend Micro, told us that, as defined in GDPR, organisations should be deploying ‘state of the art' security controls to protect user data. "Insurers will probably require much the same if they are to cover the risk as required," Edwards said.