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Trend Micro and NTT DoCoMo collaborated on an IoT network security service. It is built on the Trend Micro virtual network function suite on DoCoMo’s 5G open cloud.

An unknown threat actor has been targeting organizations with botnet malware that communicates with its command-and-control server via the Internet Relay Chat application layer protocol. Nicknamed Outlaw, the hacking group developed the botnet as a Perl language-based variant of Shellbot, according to a Nov. 1 blog post from Trend Micro, whose researchers uncovered the threat.

AI and machine learning won't magically solve all of the IT world's security problems, despite what some of the hype might suggest. Used sparingly, though, these technologies can make a security team's life much easier when operating at scale.

Trend Micro Apex One™ redefines endpoint security with the capabilities delivered as a single agent, with consistency across SaaS and on-premises deployments. This offering enhances automated detection and response and provides actionable insights that maximize security for customers and offers growth opportunities for the channel.

Security researchers warn of both new and re-emerging threats that can cause serious harm.

Last week, Trend Micro came to Boston for its annual Trend Insights industry analyst event. The company provided an overview of its business, products, and strategy.

Trend Micro announced its Apex One™ endpoint security offering on Oct. 15, providing organizations with a new set of capabilities. Apex One is the rebranded name for Trend Micro's endpoint security technology, which integrates malware prevention technology with endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities. The endpoint security is enabled via a single end-user agent and can be integrated with Trend Micro's managed detection and response (MDR) service.

Trend Micro rolled out its unified threat management product line in North America. Included are Trend Micro Cloud Edge, Worry-Free Services, Cloud Scanner, and more.

Cybersecurity insurance is getting a lot of attention from investors right now as more and more companies try to manage their increasing risks.

Trend Micro revealed that organizations around the world are exposing themselves to unnecessary cyber risk by failing to give IT security teams a voice when planning IoT project deployments in enterprise environments.

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.

Trend Micro's 2018 midyear security report finds that ransomware attack volume is growing slowly, while cryptojacking continues to escalate.

THEY CALL IT Herb2. It’s a dapper robot, wearing a bowtie even while it sits at home in its lab at the University of Washington. Its head is a camera, which it cranes up and down, taking in the view of a dimly lit corner where two computer monitors sit.

Business demand dictates a frenetic pace for delivering new and better technology. To perfect the process, more organizations are taking a DevOps approach—melding software development and software operations simultaneously. The result is greater productivity, standardization, innovation and the ability to scale up.

Trend Micro has reconfirmed its commitment to Internet of Things (IoT) security with a new program designed to leverage its Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) to minimize vulnerabilities as smart products are developed.

Intentionally or not, Microsoft has emerged as a kind of internet cop by devoting considerable resources to thwarting Russian hackers.

With high-profile cyberattacks in the news so often, the market for cybersecurity products continues to climb. According to IDC, worldwide spending on security-related hardware, software, and services is forecast to reach $91.4 billion in 2018, an increase of 10.2 percent over the amount spent in 2017.

Trend Micro Research, along with researchers from IssueMakersLab, recently discovered a supply chain attack targeting South Korean organizations, named Operation Red Signature. The attack was targeted to specific IP ranges of certain organizations within South Korea.

Researchers from Trend Micro have exposed two criminal cyber campaigns targeting South Korean organizations – one, a supply chain attack delivering a remote access tool under the guise of a software update, and two, a ransomware attack leveraging malicious .egg files.

Companies look to colleges, high schools and even nascent hackers to create a new pipeline of future security experts.

The message was clear at this year's Black Hat conference: The "culture," for lack of a better term, of security must change, or society faces living in a world of perpetual cyber-risk.

IT leaders could be dangerously underestimating the security risks posed by IoT, according to new research from Trend Micro. The security vendor polled 1150 IT and security decision-makers in the UK, Germany, the US, Japan and France.

Companies are still leaving basic security flaws and points of entry wide open for hackers to exploit.

With more than 3,500 researchers worldwide, 3,500 vulnerabilities discovered and publicly disclosed, and more than $15m paid to researchers to date, Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) is one of the world’s largest supplier-agnostic bug bounty programme.

Developers have long been chasing the dream of being able to write an application once and having it run anywhere. Despite valiant attempts over the years, we’ve never quite succeeded.

After a 20-year career in the U.S Secret Service, Ed Cabrera joined Trend Micro in 2015, where he is now the Chief Cybersecurity Officer, working with organizations to help improve cybersecurity. Among the multiple challenges faced by enterprises around the world are ransomware and Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, which represent a more immediate form of risk than other forms of attack that are not quickly monetized by attackers.

Trend Micro announced on June 19 a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service to assist security operations teams. MDR provides managed cyber-security services that benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to help detect threats. The new service is not intended to replace an organization's existing security team, but rather is being positioned as a complementary approach.

As the number of organizations that are embracing containers continues to increase, so does the number of incumbent cybersecurity vendors extending the reach of their platforms. Trend Micro, as part of that trend, has begun offering a Deep Security Smart Check module to continuously scan container images, which complements an existing Deep Security module for securing container runtimes.

Confusion persists around DevOps because the term "has been used and abused so much it's lost all meaning," said Mark Nunnikhoven, VP of cloud research for Trend Micro, speaking Tuesday at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in National Harbor, Maryland. DevOps tools have emerged and organizations have marketed "DevOps people." But at its core DevOps is a philosophy designed to balance two formerly disparate parts of an organization: development and operations.

It's been three years since researchers first discovered automated tank gauges (ATGs) at some 5,000 US gas stations exposed on the public Internet without password protection, and a recent scan found 5,635 locations were vulnerable to the same issue.

One of the men behind the Scan4You, a counter-antivirus tool used by cybercriminals to determine whether their malware would be flagged during routine security scans, has been convicted on three counts in federal court.

Everyone has that thing. That trigger that makes a person twitch. Whether that's standing on the left side of an escalator, walking too slow on the sidewalk or coworkers neglecting to take home last Tuesday's Chipotle guacamole (yes, it has indeed gone bad).

Cybercriminals looking to purchase malware are frequent flyers on dark web forums. Often, nefarious actors are in search of the attack that will deliver the greatest gains, which is why it might come as a surprise to learn that many criminals are rolling the dice on crypto-jacking connected devices.

Data breaches stemming from misconfigured cloud-based storage servers are utterly preventable, and it's up to the security community to educate organizations about tools that are readily available to scan for such mistakes, according to Mark Nunnikhoven, Trend Micro's VP of cloud research.

What matters most, right now, to today's information security community, overwhelmed by an increasing number of not only attacks, but also regulations, quantity of solutions and inability to separate snake oil from reality?

An evolved variant of Necurs botnet malware is using .url files -- known as internet shortcuts -- as part of its infection chain in order to bypass conventional detection methods.

As U.S. lawmakers decide how best to respond to Facebook’s personal data scandal, regulators in Canada are being encouraged to do more to protect the privacy of users in this country.

A security researcher discovered the recent Windows Meltdown patches may fix the Intel flaws but also introduced a more severe vulnerability in some versions of Windows.

A hardware wallet for virtual currencies with millions of users has been compromised by a 15-year-old security researcher.

When Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg posted a status update Wednesday on the still-unfolding Cambridge Analytica scandal, he called it an “issue,” a “mistake” and a “breach of trust.” But he didn’t say it was a data breach.

The relative quiet in ransomware attacks so far in 2018 may be a bit misleading, as ransomware developers have been busy and in some cases moving their craft forward with techniques used in enterprise software development.