Trend Micro Research : Phishing

MDR in Action: Preventing The More_eggs Backdoor From Hatching

MDR in Action: Preventing The More_eggs Backdoor From Hatching 2024-09-30 at 18:16 By Trend Micro MDR (Managed Detection and Response) team promptly mitigated a more_eggs infection. Using Vision One, MDR illustrated how Custom Filters/Models and Security Playbook can be used to automate the response to more_eggs and similar threats. This article is an excerpt from […]

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Earth Baxia Uses Spear-Phishing and GeoServer Exploit to Target APAC

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Earth Baxia Uses Spear-Phishing and GeoServer Exploit to Target APAC 2024-09-19 at 11:47 By We observed Earth Baxia carrying out targeted attacks against APAC countries that involved advanced techniques like spear-phishing and customized malware, with data suggesting that the group operates from China. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives

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Banking Trojans: Mekotio Looks to Expand Targets, BBTok Abuses Utility Command

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Banking Trojans: Mekotio Looks to Expand Targets, BBTok Abuses Utility Command 2024-09-05 at 12:46 By Notorious Mekotio and BBTok are having a resurgence targeting Latin American users. Mekotio’s latest variant suggests the gang behind it is broadening their target, while BBTok is seen abusing MSBuild.exe to evade detection. This article is an excerpt from Trend

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Social Media Malvertising Campaign Promotes Fake AI Editor Website for Credential Theft

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Social Media Malvertising Campaign Promotes Fake AI Editor Website for Credential Theft 2024-08-01 at 12:16 By We uncovered a malvertising campaign where the threat actor hijacks social media pages, renames them to mimic popular AI photo editors, then posts malicious links to fake websites. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and

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QR Codes: Convenience or Cyberthreat?

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QR Codes: Convenience or Cyberthreat? 2024-07-23 at 20:16 By Security awareness and measures to detect and prevent sophisticated risks associated with QR code-based phishing attacks (quishing) This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Deepfakes and AI-Driven Disinformation Threaten Polls

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Deepfakes and AI-Driven Disinformation Threaten Polls 2024-05-02 at 14:16 By Cheap and easy access to AI makes it harder to detect state-sponsored and homegrown campaigns during this election year This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets

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Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets 2024-01-31 at 10:02 By Based on our estimates, from approximately April 2022 until November 2023, Pawn Storm attempted to launch NTLMv2 hash relay attacks through different methods, with huge peaks in the number of targets and variations in the government departments that it targeted. This

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Prevent BEC with AI-Powered Email and Collaboration

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Prevent BEC with AI-Powered Email and Collaboration 2024-01-26 at 23:31 By Latest Trend Vision One™ platform integration addresses growing need for streamlined IT and security operations across email and messaging environments. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Reduce Business Email Compromise with Collaboration

Reduce Business Email Compromise with Collaboration 2024-01-18 at 22:16 By Here’s the latest Trend Vision One™ platform integration addressing the growing need for collaboration in business email security space. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Attack Signals Possible Return of Genesis Market, Abuses Node.js, and EV Code Signing

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Attack Signals Possible Return of Genesis Market, Abuses Node.js, and EV Code Signing 22/11/2023 at 10:11 By The Trend Micro Managed XDR team encountered malicious operations that used techniques similar to the ones used by Genesis Market, a website for facilitating fraud that was taken down in April 2023. This article is an excerpt from

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Threat Actors Leverage File-Sharing Service and Reverse Proxies for Credential Harvesting

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Threat Actors Leverage File-Sharing Service and Reverse Proxies for Credential Harvesting 09/11/2023 at 12:01 By We analyzed a phishing campaign involving malicious emails containing a link to a file-sharing solution, which further leads to a PDF document with a secondary link designed to steal login info and session cookies. This article is an excerpt from

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APT34 Deploys Phishing Attack With New Malware

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APT34 Deploys Phishing Attack With New Malware 29/09/2023 at 12:17 By We observed and tracked the advanced persistent threat (APT) APT34 group with a new malware variant accompanying a phishing attack comparatively similar to the SideTwist backdoor malware. Following the campaign, the group abused a fake license registration form of an African government agency to

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Analyzing a Facebook Profile Stealer Written in Node.js

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Analyzing a Facebook Profile Stealer Written in Node.js 05/09/2023 at 12:33 By We analyze an information stealer written in Node.js, packaged into an executable, exfiltrated stolen data via both Telegram bot API and a C&C server, and employed GraphQL as a channel for C&C communication. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News

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Revisiting 16shop Phishing Kit, Trend-Interpol Partnership

Revisiting 16shop Phishing Kit, Trend-Interpol Partnership 01/09/2023 at 12:04 By In this entry, we summarize the security analyses and investigations done on phishing-as-a-service 16shop through the years. We also outline the partnership between Trend Micro and Interpol in taking down the main administrators and servers of this massive phishing campaign. This article is an excerpt

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SeroXen Incorporates Latest BatCloak Engine Iteration

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SeroXen Incorporates Latest BatCloak Engine Iteration 15/06/2023 at 12:16 By We looked into the documented behavior of SeroXen malware and noted the inclusion of the latest iteration of the batch obfuscation engine BatCloak to generate a fully undetectable (FUD) .bat loader. This is the second part of a three-part series documenting the abuse of BatCloak’s

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Analyzing the FUD Malware Obfuscation Engine BatCloak

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Analyzing the FUD Malware Obfuscation Engine BatCloak 09/06/2023 at 13:01 By We look into BatCloak engine, its modular integration into modern malware, proliferation mechanisms, and interoperability implications as malicious actors take advantage of its fully undetectable (FUD) capabilities. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to

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Water Orthrus’s New Campaigns Deliver Rootkit and Phishing Modules

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Water Orthrus’s New Campaigns Deliver Rootkit and Phishing Modules 15/05/2023 at 13:12 By Water Orthrus has been active recently with two new campaigns. CopperStealth uses a rootkit to install malware on infected systems, while CopperPhish steals credit card information. This blog will provide the structure of the campaign and how they work. This article is

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