Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections
During our monitoring of Earth Lusca, we noticed a new campaign that used Chinese-Taiwanese relations as a social engineering lure to infect selected targets. Read More HERE…
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LockBit Attempts to Stay Afloat With a New Version
This research is the result of our collaboration with the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom, who took action against LockBit as part of Operation Cronos, an international effort resulting in the undermining of its operations. Read More HERE…
Decoding Digital Transformation: AI, ML, and RPA in the Modern Era
Explore the first article in this series about AI, ML, and RPA, which aims to demystify and explore the full spectrum of these core technologies. Read More HERE…
Exploring Changing SOC Landscapes
The landscape of cybersecurity is continuously evolving, with new threats emerging and the roles and responsibilities of security professionals constantly adapting. Read More HERE…
Earth Preta Campaign Uses DOPLUGS to Target Asia
In this blog entry, we focus on Earth Preta’s campaign that employed a variant of the DOPLUGS malware to target Asian countries. Read More HERE…
SmartScreen Vulnerability: CVE-2024-21412 Facts and Fixes
This entry aims to provide additional context to CVE-2024-21412, how it can be used by threat actors, and how Trend protects customers from this specific vulnerability. Read More HERE…
CVE-2024-21412: Water Hydra Targets Traders with Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Zero-Day
The APT group Water Hydra has been exploiting the zero-day Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability (CVE-2024-21412) in its campaigns targeting financial market traders. This vulnerability, which has now been patched by Microsoft, was discovered and disclosed by the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative. Read More HERE…
A Deepfake Scammed a Bank out of $25M — Now What?
A finance worker in Hong Kong was tricked by a deepfake video conference. The future of defending against deepfakes is as much as human challenge as a technological one. Read More HERE…
Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets
Based on our estimates, from approximately April 2022 until November 2023, Pawn Storm attempted to launch NTLMv2 hash relay attacks through different methods, with huge peaks in the number of targets and variations in the government departments that it targeted. Read More HERE…
Prevent BEC with AI-Powered Email and Collaboration
Latest Trend Vision One™ platform integration addresses growing need for streamlined IT and security operations across email and messaging environments. Read More HERE…