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There has been a lot of talk lately about the efficiency of antiviruses as endpoint protection. A recent Dark Reading article once again puts antiviruses under the microscope, comparing them to Google’s new reputation system.
In response to the article, Raimund Genes, CTO of Trend Micro, has published a short ... |
8 May 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Trend Micro, in collaboration with the Organizations of American States, has released an interesting study on the cybersecurity trends in Latin America and the Caribbean.
According to the paper, entitled “Latin American and Caribbean Cybersecurity Trends and Government Responses,” governments are aware o... |
3 May 2013
14:11 GMT |
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Trend Micro SafeGuard is a Windows 8 application that’s supposed to add a new security layer to adopters of Microsoft’s new OS when using the Metro UI.
The security tool comes with dedicated options to detect dangerous links and malicious search results, while also keeping you away from unsafe websites.
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30 April 2013
03:26 GMT |
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World renowned security solutions provider Trend Micro has introduced its latest enterprise product. Trend Micro Enterprise Security and Data Protection is designed to help organizations in mitigating the risks posed by cyberattacks and data breaches.
The new solution extends the firm's existing threat protecti... |
12 March 2013
19:11 GMT |
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Trend Micro researchers have performed a detailed analysis of Asprox, the spam botnet mainly known for spreading bogus emails apparently coming from companies such as DHL, FedEx, and the US Postal Service.
According to experts, the botnet has been responsible for a significant portion of the world’s spam since... |
5 March 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Command and control (C&C) communications are an important part of targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs). That’s why Trend Micro has made some improvements to its Custom Defense solution to ensure that C&C communications are identified and blocked before any damage is caused. The new C&C funct... |
25 February 2013
10:46 GMT |
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Phishing attacks targeted at users who surf the web from their mobile devices are on the rise. Security firm Trend Micro reported identifying 4,000 phishing URLs designed for mobile web in 2012.
75% of the mobile phishing URLs documented last year led victims to malicious websites that replicated the ones of well-kn... |
22 February 2013
16:01 GMT |
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BlackHole Exploit Kit 2.0 has been out for quite some time now, but experts note that most of the improvements have been implemented to evade the efforts of security researchers.
“The changes to Blackhole spam runs were done largely to evade the efforts of various security researchers. As far as end user... |
1 February 2013
16:11 GMT |
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Mobile users should not be concerned only about pieces of malware designed to target their devices. They should also think about ensuring that the data they store on their mobile gadgets is properly protected.
Many users believe that only malware is capable of stealing their contacts and other private information.
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31 January 2013
16:41 GMT |
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Trend Micro experts say that cybercriminals are turning more and more to legitimate tools in their advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks. The main concern is that some of these tools are “greyware” and they’re not always detected by security solutions.
An additional benefit from using such tools... |
21 January 2013
19:51 GMT |
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Security firm Trend Micro has released a real-time global botnet map which shows the locations of command and control (C&C) servers and the victimized computers they’re communicating with. Botnets, the global networks of compromised computers that help cybercriminals achieve their malicious goals, have become ... |
15 January 2013
16:51 GMT |
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The latest Consumer Electronics Show (CES) from Vegas clearly shows that more and more devices are being connected to the Internet. However, Internet-enabled devices can always attract the attention of cybercriminals.
In a recently-published infographic, Trend Micro explains how vulnerable the automated home of tomo... |
12 January 2013
10:11 GMT |
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Trend Micro has released a paper which focuses on an active advanced persistent threat (APT) dubbed HeartBeat, a cybercriminal campaign that targets the South Korean government and some related organizations since at least 2009.
According to researchers, the HearBeat campaign mainly targets South Korean political pa... |
4 January 2013
05:36 GMT |
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Phishing websites, ones created by cybercriminals to harvest sensitive information from unsuspecting users, have become highly problematic lately. Because they’re so effective, crooks have launched a considerable number of sites that replicate popular companies.
For instance, according to a study performed by ... |
3 January 2013
17:01 GMT |
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Similar to other security solutions providers, Trend Micro has also released a series of interesting predictions for 2013. According to one of them, Africa will likely become a safe harbor for cybercriminals.
The old continent’s Internet infrastructure continues to improve and cybercriminals might choose ... |
17 December 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Security solutions provider Trend Micro has released new free online tools that allow organizations to assess their current posture and determine how well prepared they are to handle consumerization, cloud adoption and targeted attacks.
All that you need to do is answer a number of 25 questions and you will be provi... |
27 November 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Individuals and companies responsible for IT security unwittingly play a game of chess with cybercriminals every day. In an opinion piece entitled “The Knight Fork: Defining Defense in 2013,” Tom Kellermann, VP of Cyber Security at Trend Micro explains the similarities between a game of chess and preparin... |
6 November 2012
03:32 GMT |
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What do users fear most when it comes to their online lives? What do they do about their concerns? These are some important questions answered in a study conducted by researchers from Trend Micro.
The figures show that 70% of users feel responsible for protecting their family’s online safety, but in practice, ... |
2 November 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The Russian underground market is a place of interest for cybercriminals from all over the world. This is where anyone with a malicious cyber agenda can purchase exploit kits, web hosting, VPN services, and even custom-built malware. In a 29-page paper entitled “Russian Underground 101,” Trend Micro expe... |
31 October 2012
08:53 GMT |
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Security firm Trend Micro has released its Security Roundup Report for the third quarter of 2012.
The figures highlight the fact that the number of malicious elements designed to target Android devices has increased from 30,000 (in June) to almost 175,000 (in September). While some of them are designed to inflate ... |
22 October 2012
10:11 GMT |
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The Amanda Todd incident has caused a lot of controversy in the past few weeks, but it has also raised a lot of questions on the phenomenon that’s called cyberbullying. Since it affects so many teens and, implicitly their parents, we’ve decided to interview an expert on the topic in hopes that we can shed... |
20 October 2012
11:11 GMT |
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A few days ago, Kaspersky experts published the results of an analysis on SPE, also known as miniFlame, one of the brothers of the now-infamous Flame malware. Trend Micro researchers have also studied the threat and they claim that it’s somewhat similar to some of the well-known Remote Administration Trojans (R... |
18 October 2012
03:10 GMT |
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Advanced persistent threats (APT) are highly problematic for many organizations. That’s why Trend Micro has unveiled a new product – Custom Defense – designed not only to allow companies to detect and analyze such threats, but also to respond to them.
Custom Defense focuses on four main aspects: de... |
9 October 2012
08:43 GMT |
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The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued an advisory to warn Trend Micro Control Manager customers of an SQL injection vulnerability that affects unpatched versions of the product.
The software doesn’t properly filter user-supplied input within the ad hoc query module. This allo... |
2 October 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Trend Micro released the new line of Titanium products for 2013. The focus in this release is on user’s social online activity.
As such, the company integrated a security component for social networks that works across multiple online services: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, MySpace and Pinterest. This ... |
11 September 2012
09:07 GMT |
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A few years ago, when people talked about the cloud, they would usually refer to it from a meteorological standpoint. Now, the story is a whole lot different. Although many people don’t actually know what the cloud is, it has become an important part of our lives. In order to help companies and individuals bet... |
31 August 2012
07:45 GMT |
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As online gaming evolves, the scene attracts all sorts of shady characters, especially since in some cases real money is just used to make trades. To ensure that gamers have a secure experience while playing online, experts from Trend Micro have released an advisory.
The small guide – Level Up and Secure Your ... |
10 July 2012
05:59 GMT |
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After leaking around 84,000 email addresses and their associated passwords in clear text, C0mrade has published an email database which he allegedly obtained from Trend Micro and Sykes, a partner of the world renowned security firm.
“Trendmicro & Sykes is a Global Business and Antivirus suite, we've targe... |
3 July 2012
02:41 GMT |
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As if ZeuS and SpyEye haven’t been causing enough damage on their own, security researchers from Trend Micro have found that more recently cybercriminals have begun using Automatic Transfer Systems (ATS) to enhance the information-stealing capabilities of their pieces of malware.
The paper entitled “Auto... |
19 June 2012
05:12 GMT |
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One of the latest Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) analyzed by security researchers is the campaign known as IXESHE, or i-sushi. Since Trend Micro has been actively involved in monitoring and mitigating the threats posed by it, we’ve requested further details from Nart Villeneuve, a senior threat researcher,... |
6 June 2012
03:20 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro have released a paper called “IXESHE – An APT Campaign” in which they detail the attacks launched by cybercriminals against East Asian governments, electronics manufacturers and one particular telecoms company from Germany.
IXESHE (pronounced “i-sushi&rdq... |
30 May 2012
10:04 GMT |
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Trend Micro released its quarterly report for the first part of 2012 and it turns out that this year cybercriminals have focused their efforts mostly on schemes that target mobile device owners, particularly Android users.
While 2011 was considered the year of the hacktivists, 2012 may be the year of mobile malware.... |
19 April 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Trend Micro researchers have thoroughly analyzed the latest threat that takes control of the affected machines, blocking them on behalf of various law enforcement agencies, demanding payments from the victims.
Experts found that the cybercriminals that target the computers of Internet users from numerous European co... |
4 April 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Law enforcement authorities, security companies and many individuals that don’t agree with the activities performed by Anonymous and other hacktivists are basking in joy after the apprehension of many LulzSec hackers, but experts warn that the real cybercriminals are still out there and they’re not as eas... |
7 March 2012
07:13 GMT |
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A report entitled “The Human Factor in Data Protection” commissioned by Trend Micro and performed by the Ponemon Institute revealed that most IT security practitioners in the US blamed employees for the data breaches that affected their companies.
It’s well known that the human factor is one of th... |
6 March 2012
05:15 GMT |
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The KOOBFACE botnet, that’s known for using pay-per install and pay-per click mechanisms to help the masterminds that run it earn millions, has recently been upgraded with a sophisticated traffic direction system (TDS) that handles all of their traffic referenced to affiliate websites.
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20 December 2011
08:35 GMT |
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Trend Micro researchers discovered that the technology behind the Verified by Visa trademark is much more unsecure than anyone would believe and not a coding error is to blame, instead it’s a design flaw that could be taken advantage of by cyber and non-cyber criminals. The 3 Domain Secure (3DS) security proto... |
2 December 2011
11:08 GMT |
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Six Estonians were arrested by the FBI for allegedly running the largest, most sophisticated international cyber criminal scheme the world has ever seen. While the crooks earned millions, the computers of individuals and organizations from 100 countries were infected with malicious software.
Operation Ghost Click en... |
10 November 2011
03:00 GMT |
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The folks at Trend Micro have just announced they discovered a new malware that targets the Android mobile platform and can easily avoid detection after it is installed on a device.The Android malware is called ANDROIDS_ANSERVER.A, and is delivered as an e-book reader application that can be downloaded and installed ... |
6 October 2011
07:52 GMT |
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Trend Micro researchers are backing up anti-malware experts from Sophos in claiming that Microsoft's recently published SmartScreen numbers are of little relevance and might actually lead to a false sense of security.Starting with Internet Explorer 9 Microsoft has added an application reputation component to the... |
26 May 2011
07:22 GMT |
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Microsoft has patched a vulnerability in Hotmail which was exploited by attackers to extract sensitive information, like emails and contacts, from people's accounts.According to Microsoft's acknowledgements page, the vulnerability was discovered by Yvon Liu, a threat researcher with security vendor Trend Mi... |
24 May 2011
13:55 GMT |
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According to researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro, the most remarkable threat for last year was by far the Stuxnet industrial espionage worm, which managed to get ahead other more long-running threats.Stuxnet was discovered this summer, but it is believed to have existed since mid-2009. It is widely consider... |
2 January 2011
15:30 GMT |
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According to a report from Trend Micro, junk emails with a medical theme were the most common type of spam observed this year, even though they didn't always lead to rogue pharmacy websites.Medicine has always been among the top categories of spam, but even more so this year as malware distributors and phi... |
29 December 2010
06:00 GMT |
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In a bid to expand it data protection product portfolio, security vendor Trend Micro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mobile Armor, a company specializing in encryption solutions.Based in St. Louis, MO, Mobile Armor is currently majority-owned by a New York venture capital firm called Dolphin Equity Partn... |
30 November 2010
12:15 GMT |
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A new phishing scam capitalizes on people's trust towards reputed news publications and security companies. The rogue email messages masquerade as a Trend Micro newsletter about a real article on the company featured in PC World back in September.Attacks that try to exploit various subjects attracting a consider... |
24 November 2009
08:23 GMT |
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You know the world is going down the drain when computer drivers provided by the official company come with a trojan virus. According to Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro, PC accessory maker Razor USA has been infected with a computer virus that quickly started to spread to anyone who downloaded the latest firmware update.... |
25 September 2009
03:54 GMT |
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A considerable percentage of mobile users are not concerned about the risks they are exposed to when accessing the Internet from their devices, a recent study concludes. Antivirus vendor Trend Micro found that 44 percent of over 1,000 users surveyed are not practicing safe browsing from their phones.The use of smart ... |
31 August 2009
05:23 GMT |
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro announce that a newly discovered web malware sample uses a code obfuscation technique that generates a different encryption key for every infected page. Decrypting the code without knowing the original URL is impossible. Trend Micro detects this malware as JS_VI... |
29 June 2009
08:02 GMT |
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Trend Micro malware analysts warn that the company's popular HijackThis utility is being abused by authors of a trojan remover, who pack it within their program. The system analysis tool is being used to lure users into acquiring a license. HijackThis (HJT) is a program that scans and lists potentially maliciou... |
12 June 2009
06:00 GMT |
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Trend Micro is joining Panda in embracing the Cloud with its security solutions. In this regard, Trend Micro's HouseCall 7.0 is now available to computer users as a free online security offering. The Cupertino-based security outfit indicated that HouseCall 7.0 is the evolution of its previous online virus and ma... |
5 June 2009
11:29 GMT |
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