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Cyber Crime

Earth Zhulong: Familiar Patterns Target Vietnam

In 2022, we discovered Earth Zhulong, a hacking group that has been targeting Vietnam's telecom, technology, and media sectors similar to another well-known threat actor. In this article, we unravel their new tactics, techniques and procedures that they apply on their misdeeds.

Research Feb 08, 2023

Privacy & Risks

Hijacking Your Bandwidth: How Proxyware Apps Open You Up to Risk

In this investigation, we analyzed several prominent "passive income" applications and found out that there may be security risks upon participating in these programs.

Research Feb 07, 2023

Cyber Threats

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TgToxic Malware’s Automated Framework Targets Southeast Asia Android Users

We look into an ongoing malware campaign we named TgToxic, targeting Android mobile users in Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia since July 2022. The malware steals users’ credentials and assets such as cryptocurrency from digital wallets, as well as money from bank and finance apps. Analyzing the automated features of the malware, we found that the threat actor abused legitimate test framework Easyclick to write a Javascript-based automation script for functions such as clicks and gestures.

Feb 03, 2023

APT & Targeted Attacks

New APT34 Malware Targets The Middle East

We analyze an infection campaign targeting organizations in the Middle East for cyberespionage in December 2022 using a new backdoor malware. The campaign abuses legitimate but compromised email accounts to send stolen data to external mail accounts controlled by the attackers.

Feb 02, 2023

Cyber Crime

What SOCs Need to Know About Water Dybbuk, A BEC Actor Using Open-Source Toolkits

We analyze a BEC campaign targeting large companies around the world that was leveraging open-source tools to stay under the radar.

Research Feb 02, 2023

Cyber Threats

Monthly Threat Webinar Series in 2023: What to Expect

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Security Strategies Feb 01, 2023

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

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

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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Earth Zhulong: Familiar Patterns Target Vietnam

Hijacking Your Bandwidth: How Proxyware Apps Open You Up to Risk

Cloud-ready and Channel-first

TgToxic Malware’s Automated Framework Targets Southeast Asia Android Users

New APT34 Malware Targets The Middle East

What SOCs Need to Know About Water Dybbuk, A BEC Actor Using Open-Source Toolkits

Monthly Threat Webinar Series in 2023: What to Expect

New Mimic Ransomware Abuses Everything APIs for its Encryption Process

Attacking The Supply Chain: Developer

Vice Society Ransomware Group Targets Manufacturing Companies

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