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A September 2017 survey conducted by cyber-security solutions provider Trend Micro, in conjunction with Opinium, found that most executives are not adequately prepared for GDPR, and the fallout could be significant.

“While many ransomware families like Cerber, SLocker and Locky are increasingly pinpointing their targets, they’re still distributed globally,” said Trend Micro researchers.

Trend Micro previously attributed other incidents that attacked this vulnerability, which was patched on October 16, to the BlackOasis APT group.

Research by Trend Micro found that 73% of 1000 IT decision makers were unaware of the extent of fines that could be levied for GDPR non-compliance

“Serverless is that last step on the current line of going ‘I don’t have to run any of this stuff — I can just write code that’s directly tied to my business,'” said Mark Nunnikhoven, vice president of cloud research at Trend Micro.

"How it works is technically complex," said William Malik, vice president for infrastructure strategies at Trend Micro. "The easy answer is the attacker gets the access point to rebroadcast part of the initial handshake, analyzes that information, and then the attacker can intercept the rest of the conversation," he told TechNewsWorld.

Connecting everyday devices to the Internet seems like a great idea, but users need to be mindful of the risks, warned JD Sherry, vice president of technology and solutions at Tokyo-based antivirus-software maker Trend Micro.

Analysts at Trend Micro, a cybersecurity firm, in 2014 discovered that copies of Football Manager Handheld, a smartphone game, and TuneIn Radio, an audio app, contained malicious software that mined cryptocurrencies, the proceeds of which were probably funneled to the developers.

When it comes to the Middle Eastern and North African underground, research from Trend Micro showed that the regional cybercrime marketplace has a few unique hallmarks, including a “spirit of sharing” mindset that hinges on a feeling of brotherhood and religious alliance that transcends the illicit transactions that occur.

TrendMicro researchers said the low price point reflected a unique aspect of brotherhood and comradery unlike what is seen other market places where the players only aim to make money.

Bottom Line: In addition to effective malware protection, Trend Micro Antivirus+ Security offers layered protection against ransomware, spam filtering, and a firewall booster.

The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) and Trend Micro have created a deception-based threat detection collaboration platform that deploys “honeypots” across the healthcare ecosystem.

In July, Trend Micro and VMware announced a new partnership to tackle enterprise mobile security issues. The companies plan to create new solutions which will automatically detect and tackle mobile threats on corporate networks.

The technical excellence of the Russian hacking groups, whether or not affiliated to the FSB, escapes no-one: as long ago as September 2012, Trend Micro warned in the report Peter the Great vs. Sun Tzu, “East Asian hackers are not at the same skill level of maturity as their East European counterparts.”

A Trend Micro mid-year report recently revealed that the firm blocked 82 million ransomware threats in the first six months of 2017, as well as 3000 Business Email Compromise attempts.

In its latest cyber threat report, Trend Micro’s researchers highlight the growing number of network-based attacks targeting ATMs.

Now, more than 1,200 apps available in third-party marketplaces are exploiting Dirty Cow as part of a scam that uses text-based payment services to make fraudulent charges to the phone owner, researchers from antivirus provider Trend Micro reported on Monday.

“Use of cryptocurrency miners is on the rise in the world of cybercrime,” Trend Micro Vice President of Cloud Security Mark Nunnikhoven told SC Media. “We haven't yet seen them coupled with ransomware, but that combination is one that's likely to surface.”

In most of the newly observed attacks, Locky has been distributed alongside another ransomware family calked FakeGlobe, also known as Globe Imposter, Trend Micro says.

According to Trend Micro Inc., FakeGlobe is a form of ransomware that encrypts different files to that of Locky, meaning that potentially victims could be forced to pay up for both infections.

BEC attacks generated $5.3 billion in global losses between 2013 and 2017, Trend Micro researchers reported earlier this year.

Uncovered by cyber security researchers at Trend Micro, the nature of the campaign means it's possible for victims infected by one form of ransomware to still be vulnerable to a further attack from the next one in the rotation.

These consumers could be at greater risk of identity theft because “the more data an attacker has, the harder it is to stop them,” said Mark Nunnikhoven, a vice president with Internet security company Trend Micro.

“There’s no simple fix,” says Mark Nunnikhoven, vice president of cloud-computing research at Trend Micro. “This kind of internal network was never meant to be connected the way it is now.”

A recently malware attack has been leveraging the Hangul Word Processor (HWP) word processing application and its ability to run PostScript code, Trend Micro reveals.