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In the first half of 2023, Trend Micro blocked more than 85.6 billion cybersecurity threats globally, consisting of email threats, malicious files and malicious URLs.

Recently, Trend Micro reported a 27% year-over-year increase in the number of cybercriminal activities it blocked in the first half of this year. And one thing that’s fueling the increase in cyber attacks is companies’ adoption of AI, according to the report.

As the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more commonplace, over-reliance on this technology could pose problems for employers. There was a 27 per cent year-over-year increase in the number of cybercriminal activities blocked by Trend Micro, and AI played a role in this increase, according to a previous report.

Trend Micro, a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has joined the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange (CCTX) to contribute knowledge assets and threat insights and to help support cyber resilience across the country. The CCTX is Canada’s national cyber threat sharing and collaboration hub. Trend Micro Technical Director Antoine Saikaley sat down with Julian Lee at eChannel News to discuss this collaboration, how it supports the community and how factors such as AI are evolving the cybersecurity landscape.

Scams that rely on social engineering are increasing despite all the publicity they are receiving. How can people continue to be fooled when they get a call asking for money to bail a family member out of jail for example? Trend Micro has a new study called Virtual Kidnapping and Jon Clay, their VP of Threat Intelligence, joins #HashtagTrending to discuss its findings.

Trend Micro revealed it has become a member of the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange, the country’s not-for-profit threat-sharing hub for infosec pros, to contribute knowledge, threat insights and to help support cyber resilience across the country. It is worth noting that the CCTX has 170 memebers, including other security-related technology companies such as BlackBerry, Field Effect, the Canadian Internet Registry Authority (CIRA), Okiok Data, Optiv, Purilock, White Tuque and Accenture.

Tammy Allen, SMB Sales Manager at Trend Micro in Canada, joined Julian Lee for eChannel News’ Women in Tech series. Tammy shared her journey as a channel sales specialist within the industry and discussed her transition from working in the computer software business to handling partner development and overseeing the SMB and MSP sales at Trend Micro.

Tammy Allen, Trend Micro SMB Sales Manager, sat down with Channel Buzz to discuss the challenges that a unique market like Canada poses for an organization like Trend Micro and how the company has done a great job adapting to the ever-evolving landscape when it comes to securing endpoints and meeting its partners’ needs.

Global cybersecurity provider Trend Micro has announced the launch of its latest global Cyber Risk Index (CRI) for the second half of 2022. According to the results, the overall global cyber-risk levels have improved from “elevated” to “moderate” for the first time. While North America and Canada still stand at an elevated risk level, Canada received a score of -0.03, which shows an improvement compared to the first half of the year (-0.30). Although Canada has steadily shown improvement year after year, there is still work to be done. According to Jon Clay, VP of threat intelligence at Trend Micro, "Canadian organizations must continue to take steps to improve their cyber-preparedness so they can stay ahead of the ever-evolving threats, especially since most anticipate a breach within the next year."

With the launch of Bing's new AI and the release of ChatGPT 4, the technology paradigm shift is gaining even more speed. In an interview with e-Channel News' Secure Connections Podcast, VP of cybersecurity at Trend Micro, Greg Young, discussed the importance of securing environments in today's landscape. Greg also highlighted the work Trend Micro is doing in terms of vulnerability spotting and management and provided recommendations to help companies reduce their attack surface and increase their visibility to stay ahead of emerging cyber threats.

Scanning the news these days will invariably include a story about an organization or public institution suffering from a cybersecurity attack. In an interview with Canadian HR Reporter, Antoine Saikaley, technical director for Trend Micro in Canada highlighted the importance of cybersecurity and provided advice on how HR teams can incorporate cyber awareness trainings into employee onboarding processes.

In an interview with CanadianSME Myla Pilao, Global Director for Technology Marketing at Trend Micro, shared her thoughts on Trend Micro’s recently revealed cybersecurity predictions for 2023, the practical measures that companies can take to safeguard themselves against business email compromise (BEC) scams, and some practical tactics that may be used to shield organizations from malicious users.

As many workforces have now adjusted to the hybrid work setup, blurring the lines between on-site and at-home work, security teams will be required to do away with conventional point solution-based strategies to stay on top of any potential entry points for opportunistic attackers. Trend Micro's VP of cybersecurity, Greg Young speaks joins the Hashtag Trending podcast to discuss Trend Micro’s predictions for 2023 and share recommendations to help businesses stay ahead of the emerging cyberthreats.

As many organizations today offer work-from-anywhere policies, many employees are jetting off to distant locales for a change of scenery while still on the job. John Dujay at Canadian HR Reporter speaks with Greg Young, Trend Micro’s VP of cybersecurity about the rapidly evolving threat landscape and how companies can ensure their data remains protected when employees are working while travelling to different countries.

With companies expanding their digital footprint and as we enter a new year, Trend Micro predicts threats will persist. The resulting mass-transition of company assets to digital environments has led to increasingly complicated and layered digital environments that will provide the ideal playground for adversaries looking to prey on any lack of visibility. Greg Young, VP of cybersecurity shares his top concerns when it comes to cyberthreats and reminds people about the importance of security and protection against this type of criminal activity.

Trend Micro Incorporated announced the winners of its fall Pwn2Own competition held through the Zero Day Initiative. $989,750 in prizes were awarded throughout the event with the purchase of 63 unique zero days. The real-world impact if these vulnerabilities were weaponized would amount to 10x in time, data and financial loss.

Security researchers picked up US$989,750 in prizes for demonstrating 63 unique zero day vulnerabilities in consumer and small office products during the four-day Toronto edition of the Pwn2Own hacking contest. The biggest bundle of cash went to a team from Devcore Security Consulting of Taiwan, which won US$142,500. As a result it was named the event’s Master of Pwn. It was the first time the contest, run under Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, was held in Toronto. Teams or individuals competed either live at Trend Micro’s Toronto office or online.

Just shy of US$1 million in prize money was awarded to security researchers at the end of the four-day Pwn2Own hacking contest in Toronto. In this edition of the event, sponsored by Trend Micro, participants demonstrated 63 unique zero-day exploits by breaking into home and small office routers and printers. The biggest bundle of cash went to a team from Devcore Security Consulting of Taiwan, which won US$142,500. As a result it was named the event’s Master of Pwn. The total amount awarded to all participants was $989,750. The biggest payout of the series was at the 2021 event in Vancouver, where participants won US$1.2 million. The next competition will be in Miami in February.

After two days of the Toronto edition of the Pwn2Own hacking contest, individuals and teams had won almost US$800,000 in cash prizes, with the expectation that more than US$1 million might be awarded by the time the event ends. Hardware and software manufacturers learn where vulnerabilities are in their products from hacking contests like this. The next Pwn2Own contest will be held in Miami in February.

The first Toronto edition of Trend Micro’s Pwn2Own hacking contest took Palce from Dec 6-8, 2022, with individuals or teams from a number of countries attempting to break into consumer products in hopes of winning a share of hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes. Within two hours, two teams had each won US$20,000. By the end of the day US$400,000 had been awarded for the discovery of 26 bugs. In an interview with IT World Canada Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, shared more on the goals of the competition, why it’s being held in Toronto and what Trend has learned from recent competitions.

There’s a simple but powerful dynamic driving cyber risk for most financial services organizations today. The more they invest in digital infrastructure and tooling to drive sustainable growth, the more they may expose themselves to attack. Trend Micro commissioned Sapio Research to survey financial services IT and business leaders in Canada and around the world to gauge security postures in these types of organizations.

Dina and Sid are joined by Gurdeep Ahluwalia, host of "The Pooja & Gurdeep Show" on 98.1 CHFI, and Antoine Saikaley, Technical Director at Trend Micro to discuss the latest online scams and tips on how to stay protected.

Why is cyber hygiene a growing concern? How can we encourage a healthy online space for our children? Which questions should we be asking them? In an interview with Privacy Canada, Myla Pilao, Director for Technology Marketing at Trend Micro, answers these questions and more while sharing cyber hygiene tools for parents and children created by Trend Micro.

One of the most frequently discussed topics in technology today is the “metaverse”, which is loosely described as the intersection between the virtual and physical worlds. Due to it being in its infancy, it has yet to be fully defined and it is still partly in the realm of speculation. In an interview with Insurance Business, Vice President of Infrastructure Strategies at Trend Micro, Bill Malik, shared insights on what cyber threats to expect and how they could be mitigated according to Trend Micro’s report on the "darkverse".

While the metaverse marketing hype is making everyone excited about the future, the reality is that the promised metaverse dream is estimated to be at least five to ten years away from becoming a reality. Until then, there will be many technical and design problems to solve. In an interview with Addictive Tips, Global Vice President of Infrastructure Strategies at Trend Micro, Bill Malik, discussed the introduction of the metaverse, and the new threats that will be introduced with this new, evolving space