Variety is welcome in most walks of life, but not when it comes to the threat landscape. Yet that is unfortunately the reality facing modern cybersecurity professionals. As Trend Micro’s 2019 roundup report reveals, hackers have an unprecedented array of tools, techniques and procedures at their disposal today. With 52 billion unique threats detected by…
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Ransomware has been an evolutionary malware family that continues to shift and change over the years. From the first fakeAV, to police ransomware, to the now oft-used crypto-ransomware, this threat just will not go away. Based on the latest trends, we predict this threat will grow in the second half of this year. At Trend…
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Ever since certain solutions have begun being offered “as-a-service,” the market for this method of delivery has exploded. Now, elements like software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service are key mainstay components of enterprise IT, with the market values to prove it. According to MarketWatch, the global SaaS market is on track to expand by a more than…
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Today, Trend Micro released its first half 2018 security roundup report in which we want to share the threat intelligence we discovered through the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ that allows us to identify the threats that have targeted our customer base. Below are some thoughts I’d like to share with you about these trends…
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Submitted by Ian Grutze If mobile threats diversified and expanded in 2016, they matured in 2017. Mobile ransomware continued to rear its head, burgeoning into the platform’s most prevalent threat. Simple screen lockers, for instance, evolved into file-encrypting malware, some of which even seemed to keep pace with their desktop counterparts in terms of malicious routines….
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Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is getting harder every day. According to the World Economic Forum‘s 2018 Global Risks Perception Survey, cyber attacks and data theft are 3 and 4 respectively of the top 5 likely risks organizations will face this year. This is not surprising, in 2017 CISOs the world over faced crippling ransomware attacks,…
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4 signs your PC might be infected with malware – by Brook Stein, Director of Product Management Years ago, computer hackers would brag about how many PCs they infected as a means of showing off their programming skills. They created newsworthy viruses with names like the “ILOVEYOU” or “Anna Kornikova” –named after the beautiful Russian tennis…
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Trend Micro is tracking multiple reports of ransomware infections, known as Bad Rabbit, in many countries around the world. A suspected variant of Petya, Bad Rabbit is ransomware—malicious software that infects a computer and restricts user access to the infected machine until a ransom is paid to unlock it. We want to assure you that the…
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As we all return to work from the summer holidays, we at Trend Micro reflect on what we have seen in the threat landscape over the first six months of 2017 with the release of our 2017 Mid-Year Security Roundup. It takes me back to the two major attacks that we witnessed, and I was…
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On May 12 of 2017, the WannaCry ransomware struck across the globe, encrypting computers by exploiting a critical vulnerability in Windows, first discovered by the US National Security Agency. Among its first targets were the British National Health Service, Federal Express, and Telefonica, but soon banks, schools, hospitals, government agencies and other organizations were infected,…
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