As part of our ongoing research into the cybercriminal underground markets of the world, Trend Micro researchers today released a report detailing Cybercrime in West Africa. This report leverages our ongoing partnership with INTERPOL to provide survey data and a deeper understanding of the regions cybercriminal ecosystem. While tactics play a role in the success…

In the Trend Micro 2017 Security Predictions report, we cover many of the threats that organizations will have to deal with this year and none could be more challenging that a targeted attack. We recently saw a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center which said 2016 had the most data breaches in US history. Within…

On December 1, an international law enforcement operation involving Europol, FBI, German law enforcement and others resulted in the dismantling of an international criminal infrastructure platform called ‘Avalanche.’ Avalanche was a content-delivery and management platform designed for the delivery of so called Bullet Proof Botnets, with more than 20 different malware families leveraging it to…

The explosive growth of alternative payment systems (APS) globally has posed great opportunities for businesses and consumers alike but equally has posed significant challenges for international law enforcement and regulators. Not only are we seeing innovation and disruptive technology from non-banking payment service providers growing out of Silicon Valley but we are also seeing traditional…

All crime reflects the culture that it happens in. Whether something is even a crime or not depends on the culture of where you are. What is perfectly legal in one country can be a serious crime in another. What makes the difference, generally, is the different cultures in those counties. Cultural reflections in crime…