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Updated Shadowpad Malware Leads to Ransomware Deployment

In this blog entry, we discuss how Shadowpad is being used to deploy a new undetected ransomware family. Attackers deploy the malware by exploiting weak passwords and bypassing multi-factor authentication.

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Exploits & Zero-Days
CVE-2025-0411: Ukrainian Organizations Targeted in Zero-Day Campaign and Homoglyph Attacks

The Trend ZDI team offers an analysis on how CVE-2025-0411, a zero-day vulnerability in 7-Zip, was actively exploited to target Ukrainian organizations in a SmokeLoader campaign involving homoglyph attacks.

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Invisible Prompt Injection: A Threat to AI Security

This article explains the invisible prompt injection, including how it works, an attack scenario, and how users can protect themselves.

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Game of Emperor: Unveiling Long Term Earth Estries Cyber Intrusions

Since 2023, APT group Earth Estries has aggressively targeted key industries globally with sophisticated techniques and new backdoors, like GHOSTSPIDER and MASOL RAT, for prolonged espionage operations.

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Silent Threat: Red Team Tool EDRSilencer Disrupting Endpoint Security Solutions

Trend Micro's Threat Hunting Team has observed EDRSilencer, a red team tool that threat actors are attempting to abuse for its ability to block EDR traffic and conceal malicious activity.

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Earth Simnavaz (aka APT34) Levies Advanced Cyberattacks Against Middle East

Trend Micro's investigation into the recent activity of Earth Simnavaz provides new insights into the APT group’s evolving tactics and the immediate threat it poses to sectors in the Middle East.

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Cryptojacking via CVE-2023-22527: Dissecting a Full-Scale Cryptomining Ecosystem

A technical analysis on how CVE-2023-22527 can be exploited by malicious actors for cryptojacking attacks that can spread across the victim’s system.

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CVE-2024-38112: Void Banshee Targets Windows Users Through Zombie Internet Explorer in Zero-Day Attacks

Our threat hunters discovered CVE-2024-38112, which was used as a zero-day by APT group Void Banshee, to access and execute files through the disabled Internet Explorer using MSHTML. We promptly identified and reported this zero-day vulnerability to Microsoft, and it has been patched.

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Behind the Great Wall: Void Arachne Targets Chinese-Speaking Users With the Winos 4.0 C&C Framework

We recently discovered a new threat actor group that we dubbed Void Arachne. This group targets Chinese-speaking users with malicious Windows Installer (MSI) files in a recent campaign. These MSI files contain legitimate software installer files for AI software and other popular software but are bundled with malicious Winos payloads.

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Agenda Ransomware Propagates to vCenters and ESXi via Custom PowerShell Script

This blog entry discusses the Agenda ransomware group's use of its latest Rust variant to propagate to VMWare vCenter and ESXi servers.

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