Attackers Use Containers for Profit via TrafficStealer

Attackers Use Containers for Profit via TrafficStealer

Attackers Use Containers for Profit via TrafficStealer Cloud We found TrafficStealer abusing open container APIs in order to redirect traffic to specific websites and manipulate engagement with ads. By: Alfredo Oliveira April 26, 2023 Read time:  ( words) Our team deploys containers and containerized honeypots to monitor any unwanted activities, as well as to reinforce cloud security solutions and recommendations. While these honeypots frequently capture cryptocurrency miners trying to exploit computational resources, we recently discovered…

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Trend Achieves AWS Level 1 MSSP Competency Status

Trend Achieves AWS Level 1 MSSP Competency Status

Are your security teams overwhelmed with notifications and ever-expanding queues of suspicious activities that require investigation? You are not alone. According to Trend Micro™ Research, 51% of organizations are drowning in alerts. As the attack surface continues to evolve, your organization’s ability to discover, assess, and mitigate risk effectively and efficiently will determine your capacity to stop adversaries. So, what would it mean to your organization if you could become more resilient to the onslaught…

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5 Types of Cyber Crime Groups

5 Types of Cyber Crime Groups

The adage “teamwork makes dreamwork” extends to cybercriminals as well. To launch more successful cyberattacks, malicious actors with different specialized skills have conglomerated to form Cybercrime as a Service (CaaS). We’re now seeing people and groups specialize in various parts of the attack lifecycle. This means that we’re likely going to see less mistakes made leading to detections, and we should expect multiple groups colonizing an infected network. Within CaaS there are five types of…

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Choosing a Hybrid Cloud Security Solution 101

Choosing a Hybrid Cloud Security Solution 101

The accelerated shift to the cloud was mostly borne out of necessity due to the influx of remote workers and changing customer demands requiring more business agility. According to Forrester, 94% of US enterprise infrastructure decision makers are using at least one type of cloud deployment. While there is a push to be cloud-native, the reality is that most companies will keep their “crown jewels” or critical systems on private clouds or on-prem, while leveraging…

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Future Proof Your Business from Cybersecurity Threats

Future Proof Your Business from Cybersecurity Threats

In this blog, I’ll share two ways to shift our mindset from reactive to proactive cybersecurity as well as best practices to secure your attack surface against the most common cybersecurity threats. Cybercriminals adopt technologies long after businesses do Many feel that cybersecurity is a cat and mouse game with the threat actors able to constantly thwart the efforts of the cybersecurity community by introducing new tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) whenever they need. It…

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Cyber Insurance Coverage FAQ with DataStream CEO

Cyber Insurance Coverage FAQ with DataStream CEO

Common perception now points to the COVID-19 epidemic as the demarcation point for our new era for cybersecurity. This expansion of remote work and cloud services has widened the attack surface significantly and placed security leaders in a position to approach cybersecurity and cyber risk more proactively. However, the “new normal” hasn’t just affected the how IT security teams operate, as we’re seeing a hardening of the cyber insurance market. This is due to an…

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Unpacking the Structure of Modern Cybercrime Organizations

Unpacking the Structure of Modern Cybercrime Organizations

The last 20 years have seen the cyberthreat landscape transform markedly: From an era of cyberattacks with damaging payloads, the cybercrime space has evolved to one where malicious actors have organized themselves into groups, mainly driven by financial gain. Consequently, organizations now contend with a new breed of cybercriminals fiercely competing among themselves to claim a bigger stake in a highly lucrative market. Given present circumstances, malicious actors have organized themselves in ways that show…

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Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats

Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats

Trend Micro serves over half a million corporate customers across the globe, including eight of the top 10 telecom firms. Many of these customers are among the world’s largest organizations – running some of the most demanding IT environments on the planet. They need industry-leading threat protection, detection, and response capabilities to work at high speed and scale. That’s why we recently enhanced our TX product line of high-performance appliances with the 9200TXE. As attack…

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Fight Mercenaries with these Cybersecurity Principles

Fight Mercenaries with these Cybersecurity Principles

On March 27, 2023, the Cybersecurity Tech Accord (CTA) released a new set of principles to help guide the technology industry and others in dealing with the growing market of cyber mercenaries. Trend Micro was a co-author of these principles, bringing our expertise and research of cyber mercenaries to help craft these principles for the industry. Trend Micro is one of the founding members of the CTA, and we worked with other members, Cisco, META,…

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Azure Serverless Security Risks Exposed by New Study

Azure Serverless Security Risks Exposed by New Study

Serverless architectures are increasingly popular, as the cloud provider does most of the heavy lifting, allowing developers to focus on building and running their apps. But this popularity has attracted the scrutiny of threat actors. Although serverless environments have a relatively reduced attack surface, with certain responsibilities shifted to the cloud provider (CSP), users must be careful not to introduce extra risk. This could happen if they write insecure code, misconfigure assets or fail to…

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