Cyber Monday is here and is heralding the busiest time of the year for retailers and consumers alike. Experts are predicting 2016 will be the biggest yet, with sales on Monday expected to exceed $3 billion – that’s up nearly 10% on last year. But while all our eyes will be keenly focused on spotting…
Read More
Increasingly we live our lives in the digital world. Stats suggest nine in 10 get their news from the internet today; half of us stream music; 60% of Americans watch Netflix; and roughly two hours in every day is spent messaging or on social media. But while we’re increasingly mobile in our habits, much of…
Read More
Do you know how much time you spend online? It might be more than you think. Sources claim Americans spent more than five hours per day last year on their PCs, laptops, smartphones and other connected devices. And much of that activity happens when you’re inside, plugged into the home network. There’s just one problem:…
Read More
Ransomware is without doubt one of the biggest threats facing home computer users in years. Unlike many online attacks, it isn’t primarily out to steal your bank details or spy on you. Instead, it wants to scare you into handing over money to the attacker at the other end of the internet. How does it…
Read More
Today, Trend Micro Forward-Looking Threat Researchers (FTR) published a new report, “The Cybercriminal Roots of Selling Online Gaming Currency” that details out the abuse by cybercriminals are perpetrating against the online gaming industry. Sadly, many gamers are being used as pawns in these threat actors’ efforts by buying up online game currencies to support their…
Read More
Get Smart. Get Protected As discussed in Part I of this blog, this is the year of “Online Extortion”, as predicted by Trend Micro threat researchers. I’ve outlined how you get infected by ransomware, how to guard yourself against ransomware infections and the layers of protection within Trend Micro Security work together to help you…
Read More Get Smart. Get Protected The pernicious rise of ransomware is a frightening prospect for everyday users and companies alike. By the end of 2015, Trend Micro predicted 2016 would become the Year of Online Extortion—and unfortunately, that prediction has proved true. In the first half of 2016 alone, a total of 79 new ransomware families were…
Read More
If you live on Planet Earth right now, chances are you have heard of the Yahoo mega data breach. The internet pioneer admitted last week that highly sensitive information on 500 million account holders was stolen from its network a two years ago, but only just discovered. That may have given the bad guys a…
Read More
Trend Micro has seen ransomware on PCs dominate the threat landscape over the last 18 months with their unprecedented volume and destructiveness. But now cybercriminals are attacking another vector: the Android mobile platform. Our research shows unique Android ransomware threats grew 15 times higher in June 2016 than in April 2015[i]. The mobile ransomware threat…
Read More
Trend Micro is proud to announce the availability of Trend Micro™ Security for 2017 – our newest release of the industry-leading security software that lets you enjoy your digital life safely. In addition to providing advanced Internet protection and privacy, safeguarding you from viruses, spam, phishing, and identity theft, this year’s edition has even more…
Read More
