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AI and Emerging TechnologiesAI Security Starts Here: The Essentials for Every Organization
AI’s rapid growth brings new risks as well as opportunities. Strong security foundations are essential to ensure innovation remains safe, compliant, and resilient.
November 5th, 2025Trend Research
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Ransomware and ExtortionRansomware Spotlight: DragonForce
DragonForce, a Ransomware-as-a-Service group first observed in 2023, rose to greater prominence in 2025 after a series of notable attacks linked to the group. Despite its unclear origins, what is evident is its rapid evolution and its aggressive, affiliate-driven model, marking it as a rising threat to watch out for.
October 29th, 2025 10 minTrend Research
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Ransomware and ExtortionRansomware Spotlight: Ransomhub
RansomHub is a young Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) group tracked by Trend Micro as Water Bakunawa. Despite being a young ransomware group first detected in February 2024, RansomHub moves boldly by targeting larger enterprises more likely to pay ransoms.
December 20th, 2024Trend Research
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Ransomware and ExtortionRansomware Spotlight: INC
INC ransomware has been observed to exploit CVE-2023-3519 and uses HackTool.Win32.ProcTerminator.A for defense evasion and HackTool.PS1.VeeamCreds for credential access in its different attack chains.
October 29th, 2024 6 minTrend Research
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CybercrimeUnmasking Pig-Butchering Scams and Protecting Your Financial Future
This report delves into the nature of pig-butchering scams, how scammers carry out their operations, the new pig-butchering tactics we’ve observed in the wild, and what individuals can do to avoid falling for these fraudulent investments and dealing with massive amounts of debt.
June 22nd, 2023Trend Research
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AI and Emerging TechnologiesExploiting AI: How Cybercriminals Misuse and Abuse AI and ML
We discuss the present state of the malicious uses and abuses of AI and ML and the plausible future scenarios in which cybercriminals might abuse these technologies for ill gain.
November 19th, 2020Trend Research, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Europol
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Vulnerabilities And ExploitsMalicious Script Plagues Over 2,000 WordPress Accounts, Redirects Visitors to Scam Sites
Over 2,000 WordPress sites were compromised by a malicious script that redirects visitors to scam sites, gains admin access, and installs fake plugins.
January 24th, 2020Trend Research
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