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Lynette Owens, vice president of global consumer education at the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, said legal action can help bring about change but doesn’t entirely ensure user safety.

In the report, published on 15 December and titled The Near and Far Future of Ransomware Business Models, Trend Micro highlighted 10 potential evolutions of ransomware groups’ TTPs.

"The threat actors not only claimed that they were able to breach the servers of these companies but also threatened to publish their files," wrote Trend Micro researchers, who recently discovered the new malicious campaign.

Cybersecurity services company Trend Micro reiterates the need for organizations to further strengthen their security posture amid rapid digitalization across industries.

Trend Micro security researchers discovered the threat last month. Like earlier, similar versions of the miner that also target Linux operating systems, the code kills competing malware and resources that affect cryptocurrency mining performance.

Researchers at Trend Micro looked at the extent to which robots can be compromised. They found the machines they studied running on outdated software, vulnerable OSes and libraries, weak authentication systems, and default, changeable credentials.

The bi-annual Pwn2Own elite hacking event held in Toronto has come to an end after four days in which 63 zero-day vulnerabilities were successfully exploited. Some 26 hacking teams and individual hackers took part in the event, operated by Trend Micro's Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI).

In addition to joining the Trend Micro Vision One ecosystem partner program, the company has completed the technology integration of its cybersecurity risk validation and exposure management solution with the Trend Micro Vision One XDR platform.

The Pwn2Own hacking event is operated by Trend Micro's Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI), launched in 2005, and sees some of the best hacking teams come together to exploit various devices using previously unknown 'zero-day' vulnerabilities.

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Trend Micro has unveiled a new protection deployment model that delivers great value to both security and development teams. Trend Micro identifies threats in minutes and delivers security findings with no performance impact and without removing data from the customer environment.

Trend Micro, a $2 billion security powerhouse that has won AWS Marketplace Global Partner of the Year award, posted 150 percent growth on AWS Marketplace with its partners in 2022 and expects to see another 100 percent-plus growth in 2023, said Trend Micro COO Kevin Simzer.

A wide-ranging international operation by law enforcement agencies in 30 countries aiming to prosecute online fraudsters has resulted in nearly a thousand arrests and a net of $130 million in seized virtual assets.

“In refactoring the Trend Micro Cloud One Workload Security product, the vFunction platform and their expertise enabled us to deliver value to our customers and deploy on AWS four times faster than doing it alone,” says Martin Lavigne, R&D lead, Trend Micro.

Trend Micro’s twice-a-year Cyber Risk Index report shows that respondents in the Asia-Pacific are the most likely to say they think they are somewhat or very likely to be successfully attacked at 89%, followed by respondents in North America (86%), Europe (85%) and Latin/South America (82%).

According to Trend Micro researchers, the threat group targeted mostly organizations in Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Myanmar, and the Philippines.

"The bank customers targeted include account subscribers of seven banks, including some of the most well-known banks located in the country and potentially affecting millions of customers," Trend Micro said in a report published this week.

According to a new Trend Micro report, Earth Longzhi has similar TTP (techniques, tactics, and procedures) as 'Earth Baku,' both considered subgroups of the state-backed hacking group tracked as APT41.

Picus Security has expanded its partnership with Trend Micro to enable Trend Micro Vision One (TMVO) XDR customers to continuously validate their threat detection and response capabilities.

On this week's Industrial Talk we're talking to Jon Clay, VP of Threat Intelligence with Trend Micro about “5 ‘D's' of Cyber Security”. Get the answers to your “Cybersecurity” questions along with Jon's unique insight on the “How” on this Industrial Talk interview!

The cybersecurity space has recently seen rapid growth due to the massive increase in digitalisation, expanding the attack surface. Many organisations have struggled to keep up with the demand for skilled cybersecurity talent.

Using existing codebases also saves time, and making such projects modular allows the tool to be customized for the customer's — read, "attacker's" — needs, says Jon Clay, vice president of threat intelligence at Trend Micro.

The researchers demonstrated that an attacker could cause damage or disruption, they can hijack a machine, or steal valuable intellectual property. Each of these scenarios could have a significant financial impact on an organization.

Greg Young, VP of cybersecurity at Trend Micro, agreed; he added that because IoT and home smart devices are exceptionally vulnerable, “a clear and consumer-focused label is a great idea.”

Trend Micro has formed a committee composed of six executives currently working in the U.S. government as the cybersecurity company targets a 15 percent footprint growth in the federal market.

Trend Micro study last year found storage-related configuration errors to be among the most common cloud security issues that lead to data breaches.

However, according to a global research study conducted by Trend Micro, which included the perspectives of over 5,000 IT professionals in 26 countries, only half of the respondents said they believe C-suite executives fully understand cybersecurity threats and risk management.

Bill Malik, VP of infrastructure strategies at Trend Micro, explained in a video that the metaverse will consist of “many sensors monitoring our every move, gesture and expression. More thoroughly monitored, classified than any human beings ever before.”

In the most recent incident, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro observed QAKBOT-infected systems deploying Brute Ratel, an "adversary emulation" platform used by penetration testers, but also — along with Cobalt Strike — used by cybercriminals for its sophisticated capabilities.

Mayra Rosario Fuentes, a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, a cybersecurity company, said in an email that the big gaming companies are prime targets because they make billions of dollars and have huge pools of customers.

Trend Micro's attribution of the malware strains to the threat actor is based on the similarities in source code, domains, and naming conventions, with the analysis also uncovering functional overlaps between them.

Bill Malik, VP of infrastructure strategies at Trend Micro, pointed out that other team members will invariably have access to this platform — those who are knowledgeable about data safety and those who are not.

A recent report by Trend Micro warned of the existence of the darkverse, which is the dark web brought to the metaverse. Due to the lack of oversight from regulators and law enforcement, the darkverse is a space for underground marketplaces, criminal communications, and illegal activities.

Trend Micro says the profit made by Water Labbu is estimated to be at least $316,728 based on transaction records from nine identified victims.

Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analyst Mandeep Singh is hosting Trend Micro's COO and President of North America, Kevin Simzer to talk about the latest trends in cybersecurity and how the company plans to fend-off CrowdStrike.

Cyber criminals are taking advantage of this easy access to resources, and using deepfakes to build on today's crime techniques, such as business email compromise (BEC), to make off with even more money, according to Trend Micro researchers.

"If left unremedied and successfully exploited, this vulnerability could be used for multiple and more malicious attacks, such as a complete domain takeover of the infrastructure and the deployment information stealers, remote access trojans (RATs), and ransomware," Trend Micro threat researcher Sunil Bharti said in a report.

After Uber announced a data breach last week, cybersecurity expert Jon Clay joins Good Day DC to share how you can protect your personal information online.

The Zero Day Initiative, a vendor-agnostic bug-bounty program begun in 2005 and since acquired by Trend Micro, recently addressed concerns of incomplete and ineffective patches by modifying its disclosure deadlines.

Security researchers from Trend Micro recently set up a honeypot with an exposed Docker REST API to try and understand how threat actors in general are exploiting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in the widely used cloud container platform.

According to cybersecurity company Trend Micro, BlackByte is a ransomware group that has been building a name for itself since 2021. It had already gone after at least three US critical infrastructure sectors (government facilities, financial, and food and agriculture.)

A vulnerable anti-cheat driver for the Genshin Impact video game has been leveraged by a cybercrime actor to disable antivirus programs to facilitate the deployment of ransomware, according to findings from Trend Micro.

Location tracking is important to not just Kochava, but lots of agencies that collect data and then offer it to advertisers and vendors who want to provide a better user experience or feed information that might be of more interest to the user, says Jon Clay, vice president of Threat Intelligence at Trend Micro.

“The deep web is the portion of the Internet that for some reason is not indexed and therefore cannot be searched by search engines like Google,” said Jon Clay, VP of threat intelligence at globally distributed cybersecurity company Trend Micro. “The dark web is a part of the deep web and typically relies on darknets or networks where connections are made between trusted peers.”

Global cybersecurity provider Trend Micro predicts that Linux servers and embedded systems will be an increasing target for ransomware groups in the years to come.

Dustin Childs, senior communications manager for TrendMicro’s Zero Day Initiative, said on a video call that update fatigue compounds this problem. “It seems that they happen so much that it’s difficult for consumers to tell when it’s a regular update and when it’s an increased threat,” Childs said.

Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has announced the targets and prizes for its next Pwn2Own hacking competition, as well as the introduction of a new category that aims to simulate a real world home office environment.

"Agenda can reboot systems in safe mode, attempts to stop many server-specific processes and services, and has multiple modes to run," Trend Micro researchers said in an analysis last week.

David Sancho of Trend Micro Europe discusses the pros and cons of Metaverse investment and which threats pose the biggest challenges.

Clop has been an active ransomware group over the past several years. According to a report earlier this year by Trend Micro, the malware evolved from a variant of the CryptoMix ransomware family and was first tagged with the Cl0p name in 2019.