Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives

This issue of AI Pulse is all about agentic AI: what it is, how it works, and why security needs to be baked in from the start to prevent agentic AI systems from going rogue once they’re deployed.

Threat actors are targeting users in the Middle East by distributing sophisticated malware disguised as the Palo Alto GlobalProtect tool.

A technical analysis on how CVE-2023-22527 can be exploited by malicious actors for cryptojacking attacks that can spread across the victim’s system.

The quicker a cyberattack is identified, the less it costs. Jon Clay, VP of Threat Intelligence, reviews seven key initial attack vectors and provides proactive security tips to help you reduce cyber risk across the attack surface.

Explore how generative AI is transforming cybersecurity and enterprise resilience

Enterprises have gone all-in on GenAI, but the more they depend on AI models, the more risks they face. Trend Vision One™ – Zero Trust Secure Access (ZTSA) – AI Service Access bridges the gap between access control and GenAI services to protect the user journey.

Using the Trend Micro Vision One platform, our MDR team was able to quickly identify and contain a Play ransomware intrusion attempt.

This is the first blog in a series on Rogue AI. Later articles will include technical guidance, case studies and more.

Earth Baku has broadened its scope from the Indo-Pacific region to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. In this blog entry, we examine the threat actor's latest tools, tactics, and procedures.

This article by Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen brings focus back to striking the cybersecurity strategies balance between business C-suite and information technology (IT) departments.

Explore how the Cybersecurity Compass can guide various security professionals' and stakeholders' decision-making before, during, and after a breach.

We uncovered a malvertising campaign where the threat actor hijacks social media pages, renames them to mimic popular AI photo editors, then posts malicious links to fake websites.

The second edition of AI Pulse is all about AI regulation: what’s coming, why it matters, and what might happen without it. We look at Brazil’s hard não to Meta, how communities are pushing back against AI training data use, Interpol’s warnings about AI deepfakes, and more.

Trend Micro research uncovers new cybercrime tools posing increased threats to security, highlighting the rapid evolution of AI-powered hacking services and their potential for mass exploitation

It’s clear that generative AI is a permanent addition to the enterprise IT toolbox. For CISOs, the pressure is on to roll out AI security policies and technologies that can mitigate very real and present risks.

Security awareness and measures to detect and prevent sophisticated risks associated with QR code-based phishing attacks (quishing)

Intruders are drawn to enterprise IT environments the way mice are attracted to houses. And once either kind of invader is inside, they can be hard to get out. Network detection and response (NDR) lets you trace intruders’ pathways to find out where they’re coming in—and seal the gaps.

On July 19, 2024, a large-scale outage emerged affecting Windows computers for many industries across the globe from financial institutions to hospitals to airlines. The source of this outage came from a single content update from CrowdStrike.

Trend Micro threat hunters discovered that the Play ransomware group has been deploying a new Linux variant that targets ESXi environments. Read our blog entry to know more.

We check the OpenSSH vulnerabilities CVE-2024–6387 and CVE-2024-6409, examining their potential real-world impact and the possibility of exploitation for CVE-2024–6387 in x64 systems.