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Cyber Threats

The value of listening: Making every employee feel heard

Amid the cut and thrust of daily working life, it’s easy for employers to forget that their staff are individuals, with their own thoughts, ideas and aspirations. Too often we’re treated as just another cog in the corporate machine. That was certainly my experience of work, until arriving at Trend Micro.

Research Jan 26, 2023

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Research Jan 26, 2023

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Ransomware

New Mimic Ransomware Abuses Everything APIs for its Encryption Process

Trend Micro researchers discovered a new ransomware that abuses the APIs of a legitimate tool called Everything, a Windows filename search engine developed by Voidtools that offers quick searching and real-time updates for minimal resource usage.

Research Jan 26, 2023

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Research Jan 26, 2023

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Cloud

Attacking The Supply Chain: Developer

In this proof of concept, we look into one of several attack vectors that can be abused to attack the supply chain: targeting the developer. With a focus on the local integrated developer environment (IDE), this proof considers the execution of malicious build scripts via injecting commands when the project or build is incorrectly “trusted”.

Jan 25, 2023

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Jan 25, 2023

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Ransomware

Vice Society Ransomware Group Targets Manufacturing Companies

In this blog entry, we’d like to highlight our findings on Vice Society, which includes an end-to-end infection diagram that we were able to create using Trend Micro internal telemetry.

Research Jan 24, 2023

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Research Jan 24, 2023

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Cyber Threats

“Payzero” Scams and The Evolution of Asset Theft in Web3

In this entry, we discuss a Web3 fraud scenario where scammers target potential victims via fake smart contracts, and then take over their digital assets, such as NFT tokens, without paying. We named this scam “Payzero”.

Research Jan 18, 2023

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Research Jan 18, 2023

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Malware

Earth Bogle: Campaigns Target the Middle East with Geopolitical Lures

We discovered an active campaign ongoing since at least mid-2022 which uses Middle Eastern geopolitical-themed lures to distribute NjRAT (also known as Bladabindi) to infect victims across the Middle East and North Africa.

Jan 17, 2023

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Jan 17, 2023

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Malware

Batloader Malware Abuses Legitimate Tools, Uses Obfuscated JavaScript Files in Q4 2022 Attacks

We discuss the Batloader malware campaigns we observed in the last quarter of 2022, including our analysis of Water Minyades-related events (This is the intrusion set we track behind the creation of Batloader).

Research Jan 17, 2023

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Research Jan 17, 2023

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Cloud

Abusing a GitHub Codespaces Feature For Malware Delivery

Proof of Concept (POC): We investigate one of the GitHub Codespaces’ real-time code development and collaboration features that attackers can abuse for cloud-based trusted malware delivery. Once exploited, malicious actors can abuse legitimate GitHub accounts to create a malware file server.

Jan 16, 2023

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Jan 16, 2023

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Exploits & Vulnerabilities

What is Red Teaming & How it Benefits Orgs

Running real-world attack simulations can help improve organizations' cybersecurity resilience

Expert Perspective Jan 10, 2023

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Expert Perspective Jan 10, 2023

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Malware

Gootkit Loader Actively Targets Australian Healthcare Industry

We analyzed the infection routine used in recent Gootkit loader attacks on the Australian healthcare industry and found that Gootkit leveraged SEO poisoning for its initial access and abused legitimate tools like VLC Media Player.

Research Jan 09, 2023

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Research Jan 09, 2023

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