What SOCs Need to Know About Water Dybbuk, A BEC Actor Using Open-Source Toolkits
We analyze a BEC campaign targeting large companies around the world that was leveraging open-source tools to stay under the radar. Read More HERE…
Trend Micro Research : Cyber Crime
“Payzero” Scams and The Evolution of Asset Theft in Web3
In this entry, we discuss a Web3 fraud scenario where scammers target potential victims via fake smart contracts, and then take over their digital assets, such as NFT tokens, without paying. We named this scam “Payzero”. Read More HERE…
Earth Bogle: Campaigns Target the Middle East with Geopolitical Lures
We discovered an active campaign ongoing since at least mid-2022 which uses Middle Eastern geopolitical-themed lures to distribute NjRAT (also known as Bladabindi) to infect victims across the Middle East and North Africa. Read More HERE…
IcedID Botnet Distributors Abuse Google PPC to Distribute Malware
We analyze the latest changes in IcedID botnet from a campaign that abuses Google pay per click (PPC) ads to distribute IcedID via malvertising attacks. Read More HERE…
Detecting Windows AMSI Bypass Techniques
We look into some of the implementations that cybercriminals use to bypass the Windows Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) and how security teams can detect threats attempting to abuse it for compromise with Trend Micro Vision One™. Read More HERE…
Raspberry Robin Malware Targets Telecom, Governments
We found samples of the Raspberry Robin malware spreading in telecommunications and government office systems beginning September. The main payload itself is packed with more than 10 layers for obfuscation and is capable of delivering a fake payload once it detects sandboxing and security analytics tools. Read More HERE…
Ransomware Business Models: Future Pivots and Trends
Ransomware groups and their business models are expected to change from what and how we know it to date. In this blog entry, we summarize from some of our insights the triggers that spark the small changes in the short term (“evolutions”) and the bigger deviations (“revolutions”) they can redirect their criminal enterprises to in the long run. Read More HERE…
Cyber Crime: INTERPOL Uses Trend Threat Intelligence
INTERPOL recently conducted operation African Surge to take down malicious infrastructure across the African continent and requested the help of private enterprises. Trend Micro is proud to have been asked to participate, and provided global threat intelligence that was utilized in this operation. Read More HERE…
Electricity/Energy Cybersecurity: Trends & Survey Response
Based on our survey of over 900 ICS security leaders in the United States, Germany, and Japan, we dig deeper into each industry’s challenges and present Trend Micro’s recommendations. Read More HERE…
Hack the Real Box: APT41’s New Subgroup Earth Longzhi
We looked into the campaigns deployed by a new subgroup of advanced persistent threat (APT) group APT41, Earth Longzhi. This entry breaks down the technical details of the campaigns in full as presented at HITCON PEACE 2022 in August. Read More HERE…