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LockBit Attempts to Stay Afloat With a New Version

This research is the result of our collaboration with the National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom, who took action against LockBit as part of Operation Cronos, an international effort resulting in the undermining of its operations.

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Earth Preta Campaign Uses DOPLUGS to Target Asia

In this blog entry, we focus on Earth Preta's campaign that employed a variant of the DOPLUGS malware to target Asian countries.

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CVE-2024-21412: Water Hydra Targets Traders With Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Zero-Day

The APT group Water Hydra has been exploiting the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen vulnerability (CVE-2024-21412) in its campaigns targeting financial market traders. This vulnerability, which has now been patched by Microsoft, was discovered and disclosed by the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative.

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Deepfakes
A Deepfake Scammed a Bank out of $25M — Now What?

A finance worker in Hong Kong was tricked by a deepfake video conference. The future of defending against deepfakes is as much as human challenge as a technological one.

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APTs
Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets

To help defenders learn more about Pawn Storm's activities and adjust their defenses, we offer a technical analysis of some of the threat actor's recent and updated techniques.

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CVE-2023-36025 Exploited for Defense Evasion in Phemedrone Stealer Campaign

This blog delves into the Phemedrone Stealer campaign's exploitation of CVE-2023-36025, the Windows Defender SmartScreen Bypass vulnerability, for its defense evasion and investigates the malware's payload.

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Exploits & Zero-Days
CVE-2023-46604 (Apache ActiveMQ) Exploited to Infect Systems With Cryptominers and Rootkits

We uncovered the active exploitation of the Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability CVE-2023-46604 to download and infect Linux systems with the Kinsing malware (also known as h2miner) and cryptocurrency miner.

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APTs
Earth Estries Targets Government, Tech for Cyberespionage

We break down a new cyberespionage campaign deployed by a cybercriminal group we named Earth Estries. Analyzing the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) employed, we observed overlaps with the advanced persistent threat (APT) group FamousSparrow as Earth Estries targets governments and organizations in the technology sector.

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Ransomware & extortion
An Overview of the New Rhysida Ransomware Targeting the Healthcare Sector

In this blog entry, we will provide details on Rhysida, including its targets and what we know about its infection chain.

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Malware
Related CherryBlos and FakeTrade Android Malware Involved in Scam Campaigns

Trend Micro’s Mobile Application Reputation Service (MARS) team discovered two new related Android malware families involved in cryptocurrency-mining and financially-motivated scam campaigns targeting Android users.

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