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Spam emails making the rounds in Germany are delivering banking malware identified as EMOTET, a financial threat that is beginning to make its way over to the U.S., according to researchers from Trend Micro.

This past week, the simple yet challenging game Flappy Bird surprised the world by first becoming insanely popular and then being pulled by its developer.

Users infected with a Windows trojan may be in for another devious surprise – ransomware that encrypts computer files and demands Bitcoin payment to decode the data.

Vendor Trend Micro announced it's globalizing its regional partner program, offering its worldwide partner base a standardized set of program features, benefits and requirements.

When analyzing a targeted attack against a government agency in Taiwan, security researchers from Trend Micro said they came across a variant of the PlugX remote access tool (RAT) that abuses the popular file hosting service Dropbox.

The rollout of the new program will be completed in the first quarter of 2015, and includes tiered reseller levels of Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum.

Along with all that cloud traffic coming into your business may be some malware.

Trend Micro's JD Sherry on Mobile Security, Internet of Things

Some joker stuffed the virus signature into the return address for a Bitcoin transaction leading to Stoned virus detections when transactions are stored on-disk.

Trend Micro is revamping its global partner program to standardize branding, naming, revenue requirements and benefits, said Partha Panda, vice president of global channels and alliances at Trend Micro.

Trend Micro released the first details of its new Global Channel Partner Program this week, promising to give reseller partners access to a host of new benefits and incentives in the goal of growing their profitability with end users.

The attack on a U.S. hedge fund’s network, which a cybersecurity contractor said last week disrupted the firm’s high-speed trading and stole its data, is but one among many.

Medtronic Inc, the world's largest stand-alone medical device maker, was the victim of a cyber attack and lost some patient records in separate incidents last year, it said in a regulatory filing on Friday.

Trend Micro is now offering VMware vCloud customers access to its Deep Security solution, which will help enterprise users manage and and transfer their storage through physical, virtual and hybrid environments

Computer security experts say hedge funds, with their vast pools of money and opaque nature, have become perfect targets for sophisticated cybercriminals.

Hackers disrupted high-speed trading at a large hedge fund and rerouted data that might be used to make money in rogue stock-market transactions, a security official with BAE Systems Plc said.

Trend Micro has launched a new solution designed for VMware's vCloud Hybrid Service that enables customers to move their on-premise or private cloud deployment to the public cloud with added layers of protection.

Google's hard stance against Chrome extensions for Windows hosted outside the Chrome Web Store angers some businesses and their customers.

At the height of buzz surrounding the international soccer tournament, mobile users are being tricked into downloading World Cup-themed malicious apps.

Online banking malware identified by Trend Micro as VAWTRAK has been discovered to abuse Software Restriction Policies in Windows in order to disable the activity of various security applications installed on the system.

A trojan that's currently doing the rounds in Japan is using Windows itself to try to defeat security software on infected machines.

The 2014 FIFA World Cup's official kickoff is later today (June 12) in São Paulo, Brazil, but for cybercriminals, the game is already on.

The mishandled eBay breach response effort showed that even enterprises with mature information security programs can fumble the ball.

Melbourne IT has formed a strategic alliance with Trend Micro to integrate its deep security offering to provide an additional layer of security to its customers' cloud environments.

Web applications are very often an open door to hackers, says security company Trend Micro

An unprecedented international effort has temporarily halted the spread of what's being called one of the most dangerous cyber pandemics ever. Now, experts say computer users have about two weeks to protect themselves.

Botnet Takedown Highlights Need for End User Cleanup

An examination of court records and interviews reveals how a hacker's computer crime syndicate spanned several continents and funneled money around the globe — often without being detected.

There's good news following this week's global law enforcement takedown of the Zeus Gameover Trojan and Cryptolocker ransomware campaigns: The number of new infections has become "very low," if not fallen to zero.

In the Dark Web world of cyber hackers, "Slavik" achieved legendary stature years ago, then purportedly retired. Instead, authorities say he went on a dazzling crime spree that used more than 1 million infected computers to reach directly into U.S. banks and businesses to steal millions.

The program attached to the emails is actually a keylogger, according to Trend Micro

The program attached to the emails is actually a keylogger, according to Trend Micro

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) teaming with international law enforcement, yesterday fingered Evgeniy Bogachev as the cyber-crime boss operating a Zeus-trojan-based botnet that has allegedly stolen millions from U.S. business bank accounts over the past five years.

One of the most intricate and sophisticated global cybercrime investigations ever completed led to the multinational takedown of the botnet used to feed the banking Trojan Gameover Zeus as well as servers for CryptoLocker ransomware, cyber-intelligence sources say. But what does the takedown mean for banking institutions in the long run?

The US Department of Justice and the FBI have announced a multinational effort that includes Europol and the UK’s National Crime Agency, that has managed to disrupt the GameOver Zeus botnet, believed to be responsible for a raft of financial compromises in the US and around the world.

An international public-private collaboration involving security companies and law enforcement agencies in 11 countries aims to disrupt the underlying infrastructure of the cybercrime industry.

Microsoft, the FBI, and some other companies across the world have recently managed to take down the central servers of the GameOver Zeus botnet, which has until now infected millions of computers with malware designed to steal bank details from affected PCs.

Tom Kellerman, chief cybersecurity officer at Trend Micro, and Gene West, an instructor at the FBI National Academy, discuss combating cyber crime with Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg)

U.S. and foreign law-enforcement agencies in recent days broke up a network of hijacked computers that authorities say were used by hackers to tap into hundreds of thousands of bank accounts and steal at least $100 million, U.S. officials said Monday.

Trend Micro is warning of a phishing campaign touting a “Heartbleed removal” tool, a nonsensical product that is actually malicious software.

Trend Micro researchers suggested using security software that can detect malicious links and to take care when being tempted by unknown websites.

Attackers could disable Automatic Identification System communications over large areas or send fake localization information to ships

Encryption gets a big wake-up call -- and a little more scrutiny.

THE BUZZ: TIME SERVED FOR SABU? — Prolific LulzSec hacker-turned-informant Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka “Sabu,” may walk away a free man when he is sentenced today in New York federal court.

Can any password ever be strong enough?

In a sick twist of events, the roles may just have been reversed on eBay users. It's their social media identities and data that now have the greatest value in the cyber underground.

Passwords and personal data were stolen in eBay's cyberattack. Here's how to protect your information against future hacks

Facebook is working with Trend Micro and F-Secure to protect its customers against malware.

On Monday, US officials announced the arrest of more than 90 people allegedly connected to an organization called Blackshades, which sold software that allows hackers to easily take over a Microsoft Windows computer remotely.

EBay users are being advised to change their passwords after hackers compromised some employees’ log-in credentials to break into the eBay corporate network.