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On Wednesday, researchers Numaan Huq and Stephen Hilt from Trend Micro revealed at the RSA conference in San Francisco, California, that many IoT devices are lacking basic security and are visible using services such as the Shodan search engine, which is used to discover devices which are accessible from the Internet.

(#7) Trend Micro was pleased with its recommended rating by NSS Labs, saying Trend Micro OfficeScan Agent v12.0.1851 received “one of the highest malware protection scores with no false positives.” The vendor noted that scored as “100% effective against exploits and evasion,” but doesn’t mention the exact score handed out by NSS Labs. The graph notes that Trend Micro had “no observed evasions.”

One such ransomware gang is the group behind the Crysis ransomware, who's been recently using RDP brute-force attacks to infect large organizations. In the past six months, this group's activity has more than doubled, according to security firm Trend Micro.

Evil hackers with monomaniacal intentions of a globe-disrupting nature have long dominated pop culture sensibilities. But when it comes to for-profit hacking, it's important to remember that cybercrime has been, and remains, predominantly a business-driven concern, says Eduardo Cabrera, chief cybersecurity officer of endpoint security vendor Trend Micro.

According to Trend Micro, most of the attacks are targeting the healthcare sector in the United States, though other industries were hit hard as well.