VP, Security Research
Of course, the much-touted “Cybersecurity Skills Shortage” isn’t news to anyone, or it shouldn’t be. For seven or more years, journalists, industry analysts and practitioners have been opining about it one way or another. Analyses and opinions vary on how we have reached this impasse, my own being that this is a largely self-inflicted crisis…
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Making predictions is a tricky business and in no area more so than in the area of rapidly developing technology. The pace of change continues to accelerate and the nature of innovation is such that entrepreneurs, as well as criminals are continually searching for “the next big thing” to either benefit or to blight our…
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The release of our report “Digital Souks: A glimpse into the Middle Eastern and North African underground” marks the 12th in our Cybercriminal Underground Economy Series (CUES). Having previously published several papers covering the Japanese, French, German, North American, Chinese, Russian and Brazilian undergrounds this is the first report of its kind focusing on this…
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On 8 September, credit reporting agency Equifax confessed to a major data breach. It affects 143 million Americans – nearly half of the US population – and 100,000 Canadian consumers. Unfortunately, this means that the hackers may have access to highly sensitive personal and financial information, allowing them to carry out follow-on attacks and identity…
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Hot on the heels of the global WannaCry outbreak in May, yesterday saw a wave of what looked like copycat malware sweeping the globe again. However, on closer inspection there may more to this than meets the eye, more than a simple new variant of an already established ransomware borrowing propagation techniques from WannaCry. The…
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With all the focus on ransomware so far in 2016, you could be forgiven for thinking that not much else is happening in the world of online crime. Don’t be too hasty though, while there is a massive uptick in criminal interest, innovation and investment in ransomware, other profitable forms of cybercrime are certainly not…
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Most IT leaders have by now either encountered ransomware or know someone who has. But how many really understand the threat, its potential impact on the organization and how best to mitigate it? To find out, Trend Micro commissioned new research – both to shine a light on the problem and to provide those IT…
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When we speak about online crime, we do so often in terms of “organised crime” or of highly-skilled nation-state sponsored activity. So much so in fact that you could be forgiven for thinking that solo online criminals represent the bottom-feeding, “script-kiddie” side of the business. Trend Micro’s second quarter roundup “A Rising Tide: New Hacks…
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Yesterday evening French magazine L’Express published a report linking an attack against TV5 Monde very firmly to the Russian state. The attack, which knocked 11 of its global channels off air for a period of time and resulted in a compromised website and Facebook page, took place back in April. At the time when the…
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The malvertising phenomenon is not a new thing; it has been a criminal tactic for over a decade. Back in 2004, visitors to the technology website, “The Register” were hit by a rogue advertisement, which took advantage of a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer to push the BOFRA malware. Over the course of the last decade,…
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