Opera recently disclosed that attackers compromised their network and stole at least one expired Opera code signing certificate. The attackers then used this certificate to sign their malware, which tricked the target system and (even) security software into thinking that the file was legitimate. We obtained a sample of the said malware (which is detected…
Read MoreA new Internet Explorer zero-day exploit has been spotted in a compromised website of the US Department of Labor. When users visit the compromised website, it loads a malicious script which Trend Micro detects as JS_DLAGENT.USR. This particular script was hosted on the compromised site itself. It loads another script (this time, hosted on a malicious…
Read MoreAt the recently held RSA Conference 2013, the new CA Security Council (CASC) was launched, with Trend Micro as one of the seven charter members of this grouping of certificate authorities (CAs). What is the CASC, and what do we hope to achieve by joining CASC? The CA/Browser Forum and CASC’s Role Trend Micro has…
Read MoreIf there’s one thing I’ve learned about the threat landscape today, it’s this: it’s always growing, and it’s always changing. Both mobile computing and the cloud are changing the threat landscape, while old threats like malware and spam continue to grow and proliferate. Every day, we receive 430,000 files for analysis, of which 200,000 are…
Read MoreToday, Trend Micro is proud to announce that we are taking part in Facebook’s new security initiative to help protect its more than 900 million users against the wide variety of threats that target users of the world’s most popular social network. As part of this initiative: Facebook and Trend Micro will work together to…
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