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TAOTH Campaign Exploits End-of-Support Software to Target Traditional Chinese Users and Dissidents

TAOTH Campaign Exploits End-of-Support Software to Target Traditional Chinese Users and Dissidents 2025-08-28 at 14:22 By The TAOTH campaign exploited abandoned software and spear-phishing to deploy multiple malware families, targeting dissidents and other high-value individuals across Eastern Asia. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to […]

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Warlock: From SharePoint Vulnerability Exploit to Enterprise Ransomware

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Warlock: From SharePoint Vulnerability Exploit to Enterprise Ransomware 2025-08-20 at 19:25 By Warlock ransomware exploits unpatched Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities to gain access, escalate privileges, steal credentials, move laterally, and deploy ransomware with data exfiltration across enterprise environments. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this

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Crypto24 Ransomware Group Blends Legitimate Tools with Custom Malware for Stealth Attacks

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Crypto24 Ransomware Group Blends Legitimate Tools with Custom Malware for Stealth Attacks 2025-08-14 at 11:38 By Crypto24 is a ransomware group that stealthily blends legitimate tools with custom malware, using advanced evasion techniques to bypass security and EDR technologies. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React

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New Ransomware Charon Uses Earth Baxia APT Techniques to Target Enterprises

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New Ransomware Charon Uses Earth Baxia APT Techniques to Target Enterprises 2025-08-12 at 13:10 By We uncovered Charon, a new ransomware strainfamily that uses advanced APT-style techniques, including DLL sideloading, process injection, and anti-EDR capabilities, to target organizations with customized ransom demands. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View

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New Ransomware Charon Uses Earth Baxia APT Techniques To Target Enterprises

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New Ransomware Charon Uses Earth Baxia APT Techniques To Target Enterprises 2025-08-12 at 13:10 By We uncovered Charon, a new ransomware strainfamily that uses advanced APT-style techniques, including DLL sideloading, process injection, and anti-EDR capabilities, to target organizations with customized ransom demands. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View

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Gunra Ransomware Group Unveils Efficient Linux Variant

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Gunra Ransomware Group Unveils Efficient Linux Variant 2025-07-29 at 15:02 By This blog discusses how Gunra ransomware’s new Linux variant accelerates and customizes encryption, expanding the group’s reach with advanced cross-platform tactics. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Proactive Email Security: The Power of AI

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Proactive Email Security: The Power of AI 2025-07-25 at 01:27 By Lead with AI-powered email security to stay ahead of attackers and personalize user interaction at every touchpoint, bridging technology and behavior with precision. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Proactive Security and Insights for SharePoint Attacks (CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771)

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Proactive Security and Insights for SharePoint Attacks (CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771) 2025-07-22 at 02:18 By CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771 are vulnerabilities in on-premise Microsoft SharePoint Servers that evolved from previously patched flaws, allowing unauthenticated remote code execution through advanced deserialization and ViewState abuse. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original

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Earth Lamia Develops Custom Arsenal to Target Multiple Industries

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Earth Lamia Develops Custom Arsenal to Target Multiple Industries 2025-05-27 at 12:02 By Trend™ Research has been tracking an active APT threat actor named Earth Lamia, targeting multiple industries in Brazil, India and Southeast Asia countries at least since 2023. The threat actor primarily exploits vulnerabilities in web applications to gain access to targeted organizations.

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Fake CAPTCHA Attacks Deploy Infostealers and RATs in a Multistage Payload Chain

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Fake CAPTCHA Attacks Deploy Infostealers and RATs in a Multistage Payload Chain 2025-05-22 at 12:23 By We have detected a new tactic involving fake CAPTCHA pages that trick users into executing harmful commands in Windows. This scheme uses disguised files sent via phishing and other malicious methods. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro

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Earth Ammit Disrupts Drone Supply Chains Through Coordinated Multi-Wave Attacks in Taiwan

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Earth Ammit Disrupts Drone Supply Chains Through Coordinated Multi-Wave Attacks in Taiwan 2025-05-13 at 10:16 By Trend™ Research discusses the evolving tradecraft of threat actor Earth Ammit, proven by the advanced toolset used in its TIDRONE and VENOM campaigns that targeted the drone supply chain. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News

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Agenda Ransomware Group Adds SmokeLoader and NETXLOADER to Their Arsenal

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Agenda Ransomware Group Adds SmokeLoader and NETXLOADER to Their Arsenal 2025-05-07 at 11:48 By During our monitoring of Agenda ransomware activities, we uncovered campaigns that made use of the SmokeLoader malware and a new loader we’ve named NETXLOADER. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to

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Exploring PLeak: An Algorithmic Method for System Prompt Leakage

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Exploring PLeak: An Algorithmic Method for System Prompt Leakage 2025-05-01 at 12:03 By What is PLeak, and what are the risks associated with it? We explored this algorithmic technique and how it can be used to jailbreak LLMs, which could be leveraged by threat actors to manipulate systems and steal sensitive data. This article is

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Earth Kasha Updates TTPs in Latest Campaign Targeting Taiwan and Japan

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Earth Kasha Updates TTPs in Latest Campaign Targeting Taiwan and Japan 2025-04-30 at 12:02 By This blog discusses the latest modifications observed in Earth Kasha’s TTPs from their latest campaign detected in March 2025 targeting Taiwan and Japan. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to

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NVIDIA Riva Vulnerabilities Leave AI-Powered Speech and Translation Services at Risk

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NVIDIA Riva Vulnerabilities Leave AI-Powered Speech and Translation Services at Risk 2025-04-28 at 11:46 By Trend Research uncovered misconfigurations in NVIDIA Riva deployments, with two vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-23242 and CVE-2025-23243, contributing to their exposure. These security flaws could lead to unauthorized access, resource abuse, and potential misuse or theft of AI-powered inference services, including speech recognition

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Earth Kurma APT Campaign Targets Southeast Asian Government, Telecom Sectors

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Earth Kurma APT Campaign Targets Southeast Asian Government, Telecom Sectors 2025-04-25 at 11:22 By An APT group dubbed Earth Kurma is actively targeting government and telecommunications organizations in Southeast Asia using advanced malware, rootkits, and trusted cloud services to conduct cyberespionage. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original

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Russian Infrastructure Plays Crucial Role in North Korean Cybercrime Operations

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Russian Infrastructure Plays Crucial Role in North Korean Cybercrime Operations 2025-04-24 at 05:08 By In this blog entry, we discuss how North Korea’s significant role in cybercrime – including campaigns attributed to Void Dokkaebi – is facilitated by extensive use of anonymization networks and the use of Russian IP ranges. This article is an excerpt

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FOG Ransomware Spread by Cybercriminals Claiming Ties to DOGE

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FOG Ransomware Spread by Cybercriminals Claiming Ties to DOGE 2025-04-21 at 05:11 By This blog details our investigation of malware samples that conceal within them a FOG ransomware payload. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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CrazyHunter Campaign Targets Taiwanese Critical Sectors

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CrazyHunter Campaign Targets Taiwanese Critical Sectors 2025-04-16 at 11:55 By This blog entry details research on emerging ransomware group CrazyHunter, which has launched a sophisticated campaign aimed at Taiwan’s essential services. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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ZDI-23-1527 and ZDI-23-1528: The Potential Impact of Overly Permissive SAS Tokens on PC Manager Supply Chains

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ZDI-23-1527 and ZDI-23-1528: The Potential Impact of Overly Permissive SAS Tokens on PC Manager Supply Chains 2025-04-15 at 13:47 By In ZDI-23-1527 and ZDI-23-1528 we uncover two possible scenarios where attackers could have compromised the Microsoft PC Manager supply chain. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source

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