2023 Review: Reflecting on Cybersecurity Trends

Credit to Author: Greg Young| Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Every year, experts weigh in with predictions of what the big cybersecurity trends will be—but how often are they right? That’s the question Trend Micro’s Greg Young and Bill Malik asked recently on their Real Cybersecurity podcast, looking at what forecasters got wrong on a wide range of topics, from AI to human factors.

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Cloud Security Predictions at AWS re:Invent 2023

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Heading to AWS re:Invent 2023? Don’t miss out on our talk with Melinda Marks, ESG Practice Director for Cybersecurity, about cloud detection and response (CDR) and what’s trending in cloud security.

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

Credit to Author: Hitomi Kimura| Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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ALPHV/BlackCat Take Extortion Public

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Learn more about ALPHV filing a complaint with the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) against their victim, which appears to be an attempt to influence MeridianLink to pay the ransom sooner than later.

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100 Quarters of Profitability: Insights from a Trender

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Learn what 100 straight quarters of profitability means to a Trender who has been here for every one of them.

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

Credit to Author: Buddy Tancio| Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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DarkGate Opens Organizations for Attack via Skype, Teams

Credit to Author: Trent Bessell| Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

We detail an ongoing campaign abusing messaging platforms Skype and Teams to distribute the DarkGate malware to targeted organizations. We also discovered that once DarkGate is installed on the victim’s system, additional payloads were introduced to the environment.

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APT34 Deploys Phishing Attack With New Malware

Credit to Author: Mohamed Fahmy| Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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 target a victim in Saudi Arabia.

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