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The Scoville Scale is a measurement chart used to rate the heat of peppers or other spicy foods. It can also can have a useful application for measuring cybersecurity threats. Cyber-threats are also red hot as the human attack surface is projected to reach over 6 billion people by 2022.
Talking on the changing role of the CISO and the security department internally at the Cloudsec conference in London, Leah MacMillan, SVP global marketing at Trend Micro, asked the panel if the role of the CISO was changing?

Cybersecurity reports are seldom comforting, and this year's Midyear Security Roundup reportthat Japan-based security company Trend Micro released last week is no exception. Somewhat surprising is that although microprocessor vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre top the news, ransomware and cryptomining malware delivered the old fashioned way, by hacking, phishing, or drive-by attack, are perhaps the most active threats.

Nearly a year after Russian government hackers meddled in the 2016 U.S. election, researchers at cybersecurity firm Trend Micro zeroed in on a new sign of trouble: a group of suspect websites.
The incidence of cryptocurrency mining malware continues to skyrocket as the bad guys refocus their efforts away from ransomware in favor of the easy money that cryptocurrency offers them. The latest evidence of the trend came by way of a new report, released earlier this week, that examined attack data for the first half of 2018.

Independent cybersecurity researchers found nearly double the number of vulnerabilities in SCADA systems in the first six months of 2018 as they did in H1 of 2017, according to a new report by Japanese multinational Trend Micro, amid rising concerns about infrastructure security.
Cryptojacking attacks, fileless malware, and malware with small file sizes all increased in the first half of 2018 as cyber thugs tried to use more covert tactics.

Malicious crypto-mining attacks jumped 956 percent from the first half of 2017 to the first half of 2018, IT security firm Trend Micro reported Wednesday.

The 2018 Midyear Security Roundup compiles, analyzes, and synthesizes the global enterprise threat data from the first six months of 2018. The goal of the report is to glean as accurate a picture as possible of the current global digital threat landscape. In the expert opinion of Trend Micro, the threat landscape emphasizes stealth and subtlety rather than more blatant ransomware attacks. T

Cybercriminals are moving away from attention-seeking ransomware attacks in favour of more covert methods to steal money and sensitive data according to a new report from Trend Micro.