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The travel and hospitality industry suffers billions of losses each year due to fraud. “With the right combination of other underground services (compromised accounts, credit cards, etc.) it is possible to cover almost every aspect of the holidays, including food and restaurants, shopping, entertainment, guided tours and more – way beyond flights and hotels,” Vladimir Kropotov, Researcher at Trend Micro, told Help Net Security.

A group believed to be linked to Russian hackers on Wednesday claims to have released documents stolen from the International Luge Federation, the latest sign of hacking efforts targeting the 2018 Winter Games.

Cybersecurity should be top of mind for attendees of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, according to the Global Risks Report 2018.

Trend Micro examined website defacement reports from 1998 to 2016 with machine learning technology to identify some long-term trends. Among the most common types of internet attacks is web defacement, where an attacker changes a victim's website to post a message. How are web defacements conducted and are there common trends? Those are some of the questions that a new study released on Jan. 22 by Trend Micro examines.

File inclusion vulnerabilities, SQL injections, and known vulnerabilities are the most common flaws leveraged by hacktivists who launch Web defacement campaigns. Trend Micro researchers dug into 18 years' worth of data to produce "A Deep Dive into Defacement: How Geopolitical Events Trigger Web Attacks." This report is the analysis of more than 13 million Web defacement reports against websites on multiple continents.

Two devastating malware affecting Android devices surfaced this week, raising serious concerns about the security of Google’s mobile operating system. On Tuesday, Kaspersky Labs exposed “Skygofree,” a spyware bundle capable of performing 48 different remote functions and affecting users in Italy.

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks are projected to exceed $9 billion in 2018. To put that number in context, it has been less than a year since the FBI reported BEC attacks had become a $5.3 billion industry. BEC has grown among threat actors due to "its relative simplicity," according to a new Trend Micro report "Tracking Trends in Business Email Compromise (BEC) Schemes."

Network traffic dictates success. No business in the digital era can survive without it—it’s the lifeblood of modern commerce and communication. However, network traffic is also a double-edged sword. Malicious traffic can disrupt or shut down your enterprise’s web activities, interrupt your sales, damage your reputation, and even shutter your business for good through a particularly devastating attack.

The Russian hackers who stole emails from the Democratic National Committee as part of a campaign to interfere in the 2016 election have been trying to steal information from the U.S. Senate, according to a report published Friday by a computer security firm.

Russian state-linked hackers accused of targeting Democratic Party officials ahead of the 2016 US presidential election have turned their focus on the Senate, according to Trend Micro.

The same Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the U.S. Senate, a cybersecurity firm said Friday.

A hacking group heavily linked to the Russian government is attempting to steal U.S. Senate email login credentials and also appears to be preparing to disrupt the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, according to new research by cybersecurity firms TrendMicro and ThreatConnect.

The US Senate was targeted last year by the same hacking group that broke into the Democratic National Committee servers during the 2016 presidential election, according to the cybersecurity firm Trend Micro.

Pawn Storm, the hacking group aligned to the Russian government that penetrated the Democratic National Committee, has mounted additional "brazen attacks" over the past eight months, including persistent targeting of the U.S. Senate internal email system, according to a cybersecurity firm that has tracked their progress.

As we enter a world that is increasingly instrumented and connected, we face a unique set of challenges to secure it. Exactly how best to do so is a much-debated subject, but I believe there is a solution to securing the Internet of Things (IoT). More of that in a moment. First, let’s get a sense of where we are today.

Ed Cabrera, chief cybersecurity officer at Trend Micro, says researchers at the company are "seeing a lot of innovation going on" in PoS malware. While the bot delivery method has been around for a while, attackers are evolving their strategies around distributing malware.

Serverless apps are not a new concept, but adoption of the model is growing among enterprises. Among those pushing greater use of serverless apps are major cloud vendors Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Trend Micro vice president Mark Nunnikhovenexplains what you need to know about the security implications of serverless applications. He reviews the most secure designs, how to implement security, and what IT Ops need to understand about the trend.

Perhaps you've been hearing strange sounds in your home—ghostly creaks and moans, random Rick Astley tunes, Alexa commands issued in someone else's voice. If so, you haven't necessarily lost your mind. Instead, if you own one of a few models of internet-connected speaker and you've been careless with your network settings, you might be one of thousands of people whose Sonos or Bose devices have been left wide open to audio hijacking by hackers around the world.

Researchers at Trend Micro have found that certain models of Sonos and Bose speakers have vulnerabilities that leave them open to hijacking, as reported by Wired. The accessible speakers are being exploited by hackers that are using them to play spooky sounds, Alexa commands, and... Rick Astley tracks.

Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a potential hack opening key speakers from Sonos and Bose to remote access. As first reported by Wired, the Sonos Play:1, Sonos One, and Bose SoundTouch systems can be located and taken over through an online scan, letting hackers play music through the system.

The social network unveiled on Wednesday a security feature that lets you see a list of recent emails sent by Facebook. Successful phishing campaigns can be costly for consumers and companies. According to security firm Trend Micro, global losses from compromised business email scams, which often originate via phishing, will exceed $9 billion next year.

Researchers at Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative also suspect one of the updates is aimed at mitigating a nearly undetectable Microsoft Office exploit that takes advantage of a 24-year-old Microsoft protocol called Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE).

“The online tools we’ve seen show how traditional felony and cybercrime can work concertedly—or even strengthen each other—towards bigger payouts for the bad guys,” TrendMicro reports.

According to research from Trend Micro, while 66 percent of companies say they would never pay a ransom as a point of principle, in practice 65 percent actually do pay the ransom when they get hit.

Researchers at Trend Micro have spotted the first known piece of malware to exploit a recently patched vulnerability affecting the Toast feature in Android.