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From Misconfigured Spring Boot Actuator to SharePoint Exfiltration: How Stolen Credentials Bypass MFA

From Misconfigured Spring Boot Actuator to SharePoint Exfiltration: How Stolen Credentials Bypass MFA 2026-03-18 at 12:35 By Not every cloud breach starts with malware or a zero-day. In this incident, attackers discovered an exposed Spring Boot Actuator endpoint, harvested credentials from leaked configuration data, then used the OAuth2 Resource Owner Password Credentials (ROPC) flow to […]

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Web Shells, Tunnels, and Ransomware: Dissecting a Warlock Attack

Web Shells, Tunnels, and Ransomware: Dissecting a Warlock Attack 2026-03-16 at 15:10 By Warlock continues to enhance its attack chain with new tactics to improve persistence, lateral movement, and defense evasion using an expanded toolset: TightVNC Yuze, and a persistent BYOVD technique leveraging the NSec driver. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research,

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CISOs in a Pinch: A Security Analysis of OpenClaw

CISOs in a Pinch: A Security Analysis of OpenClaw 2026-03-10 at 08:33 By Learn about OpenClaw (a sovereign agent) and how this can be viable for enterprises. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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TrendAI™ at [un]prompted 2026: From KYC Exploits to Agentic Defense

TrendAI™ at [un]prompted 2026: From KYC Exploits to Agentic Defense 2026-03-09 at 08:32 By At [un]prompted 2026, TrendAI™ demonstrated how documents can be used to exploit AI-driven KYC pipelines and introduced FENRIR, an automated system for discovering AI vulnerabilities at scale. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original

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New BoryptGrab Stealer Targets Windows Users via Deceptive GitHub Pages

New BoryptGrab Stealer Targets Windows Users via Deceptive GitHub Pages 2026-03-05 at 17:11 By The BoryptGrab campaign uses fake SEO‑optimized GitHub repositories and deceptive download pages to distribute a data‑stealing malware family that delivers multiple payloads, including a reverse SSH backdoor, to Windows users. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and

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Europol, Microsoft, TrendAI™ and Collaborators Halt Tycoon 2FA Operations

Europol, Microsoft, TrendAI™ and Collaborators Halt Tycoon 2FA Operations 2026-03-04 at 21:05 By Tycoon 2FA was dismantled this week by law enforcement and industry partners including TrendAI™. The phishing-as-a-service platform offered MFA bypass services using adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) proxying. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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CISOs in a Pinch: A Security Analysis of OpenClaw

CISOs in a Pinch: A Security Analysis of OpenClaw 2026-03-03 at 08:21 By Learn how Claude Code Security set Cybersecurity stocks on fire. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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Malicious OpenClaw Skills Used to Distribute Atomic MacOS Stealer

Malicious OpenClaw Skills Used to Distribute Atomic MacOS Stealer 2026-02-23 at 02:00 By Malicious OpenClaw skills trick AI agents and users into installing a new AMOS variant that steals extensive data at scale. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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Spam Campaign Abuses Atlassian Jira, Targets Government and Corporate Entities

Spam Campaign Abuses Atlassian Jira, Targets Government and Corporate Entities 2026-02-17 at 02:00 By We uncover how a campaign used Atlassian Jira Cloud to launch automated and targeted spam campaigns, exploiting trusted SaaS workflows to bypass security controls. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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U.S. Public Sector Under Siege

U.S. Public Sector Under Siege 2026-02-06 at 00:10 By Discover why Government and Education must prioritize Cyber Risk Management. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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PeckBirdy: A Versatile Script Framework for LOLBins Exploitation Used by China-aligned Threat Groups

PeckBirdy: A Versatile Script Framework for LOLBins Exploitation Used by China-aligned Threat Groups 2026-01-26 at 17:42 By PeckBirdy is a sophisticated JScript-based C&C framework used by China-aligned APT groups to exploit LOLBins across multiple environments, delivering advanced backdoors to target gambling industries and Asian government entities. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research,

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Watering Hole Attack Targets EmEditor Users with Information-Stealing Malware

Watering Hole Attack Targets EmEditor Users with Information-Stealing Malware 2026-01-22 at 16:31 By TrendAI™ Research provides a technical analysis of a compromised EmEditor installer used to deliver multistage malware that performs a range of malicious actions. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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From Extension to Infection: An In-Depth Analysis of the Evelyn Stealer Campaign Targeting Software Developers

From Extension to Infection: An In-Depth Analysis of the Evelyn Stealer Campaign Targeting Software Developers 2026-01-19 at 13:40 By This blog entry provides an in-depth analysis of the multistage delivery of the Evelyn information stealer, which was used in a campaign targeting software developers. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and

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Your 100 Billion Parameter Behemoth is a Liability

Your 100 Billion Parameter Behemoth is a Liability 2026-01-17 at 18:04 By The “bigger is better” era of AI is hitting a wall. We are in an LLM bubble, characterized by ruinous inference costs and diminishing returns. The future belongs to Agentic AI powered by specialized Small Language Models (SLMs). Think of it as a

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Introducing ÆSIR: Finding Zero-Day Vulnerabilities at the Speed of AI

Introducing ÆSIR: Finding Zero-Day Vulnerabilities at the Speed of AI 2026-01-15 at 19:58 By TrendAI™’s ÆSIR platform combines AI automation with expert oversight to discover zero-day vulnerabilities in AI infrastructure – 21 CVEs across NVIDIA, Tencent, and MLflow since mid-2025. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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Key Insights on SHADOW-AETHER-015 and Earth Preta from the 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation with Trend Vision One™

Key Insights on SHADOW-AETHER-015 and Earth Preta from the 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation with Trend Vision One™ 2026-01-13 at 11:05 By This blog discusses notable modern TTPs observed from SHADOW-AETHER-015 and Earth Preta, from Trend Research™ monitoring and Trend Vision One™ intelligence. These findings support the performance of TrendAI™ in the 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations.

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Analyzing a Multi-Stage AsyncRAT Campaign via Managed Detection and Response

Analyzing a Multi-Stage AsyncRAT Campaign via Managed Detection and Response 2026-01-12 at 13:43 By Threat actors exploited Cloudflare’s free-tier infrastructure and legitimate Python environments to deploy the AsyncRAT remote access trojan, demonstrating advanced evasion techniques that abuse trusted cloud services for malicious operations. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives

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Trend Micro’s Pivotal Role in INTERPOL’s Operation Sentinel: Dismantling Digital Extortion Networks Across Africa

Trend Micro’s Pivotal Role in INTERPOL’s Operation Sentinel: Dismantling Digital Extortion Networks Across Africa 2025-12-30 at 17:07 By Continuing a Legacy of Successful Collaboration This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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Get Executives on board with managing Cyber Risk

Get Executives on board with managing Cyber Risk 2025-12-30 at 17:07 By Learn how the 2025 Trend Micro Defenders Survey Report helps paint a clear picture of how security teams are looking to work with executive leaders to manage cyber risk. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original

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What Does it Take to Manage Cloud Risk?

What Does it Take to Manage Cloud Risk? 2025-12-23 at 05:47 By Learn why hybrid and multi-cloud environments are vital for IT and business success from our 2025 Trend Micro Defenders Survey. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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