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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.

Here is where some of the leading technology CEOs are placing their bets in 2023 and how they are relying on partners to help them tackle emerging opportuni­ties.

"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.

Organizations should take note of the risk, especially since the barrier to exploitation for the bugs — aka, the access complexity — is low, says Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), which reported the vulnerabilities.

Discovered in June 2022 by researchers at cybersecurity company Trend Micro, the malware appears to target mainly English and Russian-speaking users.

In a demonstration, researchers from Trend Micro used a dev container image maintained by Microsoft and wrote a configuration that opened a simple HTTP server using the Python runtime which is included by default and forwarded port 8000 publicly.

Maxwell Leadership Thought Leader Don Yaeger sits down with Trend Micro COO Kevin Simzer to discuss what pro hockey can teach leaders about building pipelines of talent in their organizations.

Two reports from Guardio Labs and Trend Micro explain that these malicious websites are promoted to a broader audience via Google Ad campaigns.

Trend Micro once again takes the top prize with their outstanding report entitled FUTURE / TENSE: TREND MICROSECURITY PREDICTIONS FOR 2023.

According to Trend Micro, Royal is the rebranded version of Zeon ransomware, which emerged earlier this year and which was associated in August with Conti Team One, one of the groups involved in the distribution of the Conti ransomware.

Google has announced Trend Micro will be joining their App Defense Alliance (ADA) to help improve their ability to identify malicious apps before they are published to the Google Play store.

This new tactic was discovered by Trend Micro researchers who observed Raspberry Robin in recent attacks against telecommunication service providers and government systems.

Researchers at Trend Micro have been tracking Raspberry Robin since September and are warning the worm is notable for its 10 layers of obfuscation and its ability to deploy a fake payload to throw off detection efforts.