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Breaking Down Earth Estries’ Persistent TTPs in Prolonged Cyber Operations

Breaking Down Earth Estries’ Persistent TTPs in Prolonged Cyber Operations 2024-11-08 at 02:00 By Discover how Earth Estries employs a diverse set of tactics, techniques, and tools, including malware such as Zingdoor and Snappybee, for its campaigns. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this […]

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SOC Around the Clock: World Tour Survey Findings

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SOC Around the Clock: World Tour Survey Findings 2024-11-05 at 05:49 By Trend surveyed 750 cybersecurity professionals in 49 countries to learn more about the state of cybersecurity, from job pressures to the need for more advanced tools. Explore what SOC teams had to say. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News

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Attacker Abuses Victim Resources to Reap Rewards from Titan Network

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Attacker Abuses Victim Resources to Reap Rewards from Titan Network 2024-10-30 at 09:47 By In this blog entry, we discuss how an attacker took advantage of the Atlassian Confluence vulnerability CVE-2023-22527 to connect servers to the Titan Network for cryptomining purposes. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original

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Understanding the Initial Stages of Web Shell and VPN Threats: An MXDR Analysis

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Understanding the Initial Stages of Web Shell and VPN Threats: An MXDR Analysis 2024-10-24 at 12:33 By While cyberattacks that employ web shells and VPN compromise are not particularly novel, they are still prevalent. The recent incidents that Trend Micro MXDR analyzed highlight the importance of behavioral analysis and anomaly detection in security measures. This

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Unmasking Prometei: A Deep Dive Into Our MXDR Findings

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Unmasking Prometei: A Deep Dive Into Our MXDR Findings 2024-10-23 at 16:23 By How does Prometei insidiously operate in a compromised system? This Managed Extended Detection and Response investigation conducted with the help of Trend Vision One provides a comprehensive analysis of the inner workings of this botnet so users can stop the threat in

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Attackers Target Exposed Docker Remote API Servers With perfctl Malware

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Attackers Target Exposed Docker Remote API Servers With perfctl Malware 2024-10-21 at 18:33 By We observed an unknown threat actor abusing exposed Docker remote API servers to deploy the perfctl malware. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Fake LockBit, Real Damage: Ransomware Samples Abuse AWS S3 to Steal Data

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Fake LockBit, Real Damage: Ransomware Samples Abuse AWS S3 to Steal Data 2024-10-16 at 14:35 By This article uncovers a Golang ransomware abusing AWS S3 for data theft, and masking as LockBit to further pressure victims. The discovery of hard-coded AWS credentials in these samples led to AWS account suspensions. This article is an excerpt

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Silent Threat: Red Team Tool EDRSilencer Disrupting Endpoint Security Solutions

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Silent Threat: Red Team Tool EDRSilencer Disrupting Endpoint Security Solutions 2024-10-15 at 11:02 By Trend Micro’s Threat Hunting Team discovered EDRSilencer, a red team tool that threat actors are attempting to abuse for its ability to block EDR traffic and conceal malicious activity. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives

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Water Makara Uses Obfuscated JavaScript in Spear Phishing Campaign, Targets Brazil With Astaroth Malware

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Water Makara Uses Obfuscated JavaScript in Spear Phishing Campaign, Targets Brazil With Astaroth Malware 2024-10-14 at 11:48 By Trend Micro researchers have uncovered a surge of malicious activities involving a threat actor group that we track as Water Makara. This group is targeting enterprises in Brazil, deploying banking malware using obfuscated JavaScript to slip past

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Earth Simnavaz Levies Advanced Cyberattacks Against UAE and Gulf Regions

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Earth Simnavaz Levies Advanced Cyberattacks Against UAE and Gulf Regions 2024-10-11 at 11:02 By Trend Micro’s investigation into the recent activity of Earth Simnavaz provides new insights into the APT group’s evolving tactics and the immediate threat it poses to critical sectors in the UAE. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News

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How Ransomhub Ransomware Uses EDRKillShifter to Disable EDR and Antivirus Protections

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How Ransomhub Ransomware Uses EDRKillShifter to Disable EDR and Antivirus Protections 2024-09-20 at 18:31 By Trend Micro tracked this group as Water Bakunawa, behind the RansomHub ransomware, employs various anti-EDR techniques to play a high-stakes game of hide and seek with security solutions. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives

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Vulnerabilities in Cellular Packet Cores Part IV: Authentication

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Vulnerabilities in Cellular Packet Cores Part IV: Authentication 2024-09-18 at 13:46 By Our research reveals two significant vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure Private 5G Core (AP5GC). The first vulnerability (CVE-2024-20685) allows a crafted signaling message to crash the control plane, leading to potential service outages. The second (ZDI-CAN-23960) disconnects and replaces attached base stations, disrupting network

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Protecting Against RCE Attacks Abusing WhatsUp Gold Vulnerabilities

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Protecting Against RCE Attacks Abusing WhatsUp Gold Vulnerabilities 2024-09-12 at 12:46 By In this blog entry, we provide an analysis of the recent remote code execution attacks related to Progress Software’s WhatsUp Gold that possibly abused the vulnerabilities CVE-2024-6670 and CVE-2024-6671. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original

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Earth Preta Evolves its Attacks with New Malware and Strategies

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Earth Preta Evolves its Attacks with New Malware and Strategies 2024-09-09 at 10:48 By In this blog entry, we discuss our analysis of Earth Preta’s enhancements in their attacks by introducing new tools, malware variants and strategies to their worm-based attacks and their time-sensitive spear-phishing campaign. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research,

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TIDRONE Targets Military and Satellite Industries in Taiwan

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TIDRONE Targets Military and Satellite Industries in Taiwan 2024-09-06 at 12:49 By Our research reveals that an unidentified threat cluster we named TIDRONE have shown significant interest in military-related industry chains, particularly in the manufacturers of drones. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this

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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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Earth Lusca Uses KTLVdoor Backdoor for Multiplatform Intrusion

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Earth Lusca Uses KTLVdoor Backdoor for Multiplatform Intrusion 2024-09-04 at 11:02 By While monitoring Earth Lusca, we discovered the threat group’s use of KTLVdoor, a highly obfuscated multiplatform backdoor, as part of a large-scale attack campaign. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Silent Intrusions: Godzilla Fileless Backdoors Targeting Atlassian Confluence

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Silent Intrusions: Godzilla Fileless Backdoors Targeting Atlassian Confluence 2024-08-30 at 12:16 By Trend Micro discovered that old Atlassian Confluence versions that were affected by CVE-2023-22527 are being exploited using a new in-memory fileless backdoor. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Threat Actors Target the Middle East Using Fake Palo Alto GlobalProtect Tool

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Threat Actors Target the Middle East Using Fake Palo Alto GlobalProtect Tool 2024-08-29 at 12:16 By Threat actors are targeting users in the Middle East by distributing sophisticated malware disguised as the Palo Alto GlobalProtect tool. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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Cryptojacking via CVE-2023-22527: Dissecting a Full-Scale Cryptomining Ecosystem

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Cryptojacking via CVE-2023-22527: Dissecting a Full-Scale Cryptomining Ecosystem 2024-08-28 at 08:02 By A technical analysis on how CVE-2023-22527 can be exploited by malicious actors for cryptojacking attacks that can spread across the victim’s system. This article is an excerpt from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives View Original Source React to this headline:

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