Tracking the Progression of Earth Hundun’s Cyberespionage Campaign in 2024
This report describes how Waterbear and Deuterbear — two of the tools in Earth Hundun’s arsenal — operate, based on a campaign from 2024. Read More HERE…
Trend Micro Research : Malware
Trend Micro Collaborated with Interpol in Cracking Down Grandoreiro Banking Trojan
In this blog entry, we discuss Trend Micro’s contributions to an Interpol-coordinated operation to help Brazilian and Spanish law enforcement agencies analyze malware samples of the Grandoreiro banking trojan. Read More HERE…
Importance of Scanning Files on Uploader Applications
Delve into the crucial practice of file scanning within uploader applications, and learn defensive measures to safeguards against malicious threats like malware. Read More HERE…
Cyberespionage Group Earth Hundun’s Continuous Refinement of Waterbear and Deuterbear
Our blog entry provides an in-depth analysis of Earth Hundun’s Waterbear and Deuterbear malware. Read More HERE…
TeamCity Vulnerability Exploits Lead to Jasmin Ransomware, Other Malware Types
CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199 are vulnerabilities within the TeamCity On-Premises platform that can allow attackers to gain administrative control over affected systems. Read More HERE…
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…
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…
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…
Analyzing AsyncRAT’s Code Injection into aspnet_compiler.exe Across Multiple Incident Response Cases
This blog entry delves into MxDR’s unraveling of the AsyncRAT infection chain across multiple cases, shedding light on the misuse of aspnet_compiler.exe, a legitimate Microsoft process originally designed for precompiling ASP.NET web applications. Read More HERE…
Attack Signals Possible Return of Genesis Market, Abuses Node.js, and EV Code Signing
The Trend Micro Managed XDR team encountered malicious operations that used techniques similar to the ones used by Genesis Market, a website for facilitating fraud that was taken down in April 2023. Read More HERE…