Cybercrime

Trend Micro’s State of AI Security report explores how AI’s rapid adoption is transforming both business efficiency and cybercrime methods, highlighting novel threats and strategic defenses to help organizations adapt in an increasingly AI-driven world.

In 2022, Trend Micro conducted extensive research to understand potential cyber threats to the metaverse amid significant global changes and a growing focus on AI technologies. The release of Apple's Apple Vision Pro headset a year later provided an opportunity to evaluate these predictions, highlighting both advancements and persistent challenges in areas such as data privacy, biometric security, and multi-vendor interoperability.

What does the present state of the Spanish-speaking cybercriminal underground look like? What are the most common scams and other illicit offerings peddled by cybercriminals? Unearth the secrets of the Spanish dark market in our research.

The English-speaking cybercriminal underground market has undergone significant transformations. We examine how it has adapted to new technology, increased law enforcement scrutiny, and linguistic diversification.

Elections are not just an opportunity for nation states to use Generative AI tools to damage a politician’s reputation. They are also an opportunity for cybercriminals to use Generative AI tools to orchestrate social engineering scams.

Elections are the cornerstone of modern democracy, an exercise where a populace expresses its political will through the casting of ballots. But as electoral systems adopt and embrace technology, this introduces significant cybersecurity risks, not only to the infrastructure supporting an election but also to the people lining up in polling booths.

With the goal of creating fast, evasive, and sophisticated threats and campaigns, malicious actors are always on the prowl for new technologies to abuse, significant world events to exploit, and mismanaged and vulnerable assets to compromise.

We have been looking at the hacktivism landscape to help the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) understand this cybercriminal phenomenon for their paper on the topic. The UNICRI paper was released today at a launch event held at the United Nations headquarters where we gave an overview on emerging trends in the underground.

In the latest installment of our ongoing series where we identify and investigate security flaws in Azure Machine Learning (AML), we explore how cybercriminals could manage to covertly gain persistence in AML workspaces.