Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 12:00:32 +0000
As we predicted in 2016, cyberpropaganda is a major growth area for cybercriminals. Per that prediction, “The rise in the Internet penetration has opened the opportunity for invested parties to use the Internet as a free-for-all tool to influence public opinion to go one way or another.” Today, we know this through Wikileaks and self-proclaimed…
Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:51:15 +0000
At Trend Micro we have a long history of partnering with law enforcement whenever called upon. We believe that the skills and resources of the private sector can offer allow law enforcement to surge and scale on any particular threat. Combatting the threat posed by transnational cyber criminal groups is ultimately a shared responsibility and…
Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:00:02 +0000
Anyone familiar with Pawn Storm (a.k.a. APT28, Fancy Bear, Strontium, etc.) is likely to associate the group with highly sophisticated targeted attacks that compromise government and media agencies around the world. In our latest report, researchers expose the true nature and scope of the cyber espionage group’s attacks and methodologies. Pawn Storm has managed to…
Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 11:00:52 +0000
As part of our ongoing research into the cybercriminal underground markets of the world, Trend Micro researchers today released a report detailing Cybercrime in West Africa. This report leverages our ongoing partnership with INTERPOL to provide survey data and a deeper understanding of the regions cybercriminal ecosystem. While tactics play a role in the success…
Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:00:21 +0000
Healthcare organizations (HCOs) around the world are under attack. The data they store and process has become a valuable commodity on the cybercriminal underground and has even been linked to nation state attacks. In 2015, more than 113 million records were stolen in the U.S. alone, according to the Department of Health and Human Services….
In the Trend Micro 2017 Security Predictions report, we cover many of the threats that organizations will have to deal with this year and none could be more challenging that a targeted attack. We recently saw a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center which said 2016 had the most data breaches in US history. Within…
I used to love sitting on the floor and watching Saturday morning cartoons. One of my favorite gags was when a character got really, really hungry. In order to emphasize the point, everything and everyone around them turned to food. The newspaper stand owner became a large hand. The baby in a stroller was suddenly…