“Suspicious login” scammers up their game – take care at Christmas
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:59:06 +0000
A picture is worth 1024 words – we clicked through so you don’t have to.
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Iran’s Internet Blackouts Are Sabotaging Its Own Economy
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +0000
A new US State Department assessment highlights the stark economic toll of Tehran’s recent shutdowns and platform control.
Read moreThe scammers who scam scammers on cybercrime forums: Part 3
Credit to Author: Matt Wixey| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 11:00:08 +0000
A shadowy sub-economy is more than just a curiosity – it’s booming business, and also an opportunity for defenders. In the third part of our series, we look at the curious case of twenty fake marketplaces.
Read moreAs China pushes its digital currency plans, the US falls behind
China’s digital Yuan project, a blockchain-based cryptocurrency for consumer and commercial finance, can no longer be considered a pilot. That’s the assessment by economic and cryptocurrency experts.
Those experts have been monitoring efforts in China and other countries developing and piloting central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) with the aim of establishing a blockchain-based virtual cash that is cheaper to use and faster to exchange, both at home and across international borders.
To date, the People’s Bank of China has distributed the digital yuan, called e-CNY, to 15 of China’s 23 provinces, and it has been used in more than 360 million transactions totaling north of 100 billion yuan, or $13.9 billion. The country has literally given away millions of dollars worth of digital yuan through lotteries, and its central bank has also participated in cross-border exchanges with several nations.
Detecting Windows AMSI Bypass Techniques
Credit to Author: Jiri Sykora| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000
We look into some of the implementations that cybercriminals use to bypass the Windows Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) and how security teams can detect threats attempting to abuse it for compromise with Trend Micro Vision One™.
Read moreConti Team One Splinter Group Resurfaces as Royal Ransomware with Callback Phishing Attacks
Credit to Author: Ivan Nicole Chavez| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000
From September to December, we detected multiple attacks from the Royal ransomware group. In this blog entry, we discuss findings from our investigation of this ransomware and the tools that Royal ransomware actors used to carry out their attacks.
Read moreA Technical Analysis of CVE-2022-22583 and CVE-2022-32800
Credit to Author: Mickey Jin| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000
This blog entry discusses the technical details of how we exploited CVE-2022-22583 using a different method. We also tackle the technical details of CVE-2022-32800, another SIP-bypass that we discovered more recently, in this report.
Read moreTrend Micro Joins Google’s App Defense Alliance
Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Trend Micro will be joining Google’s App Defense Alliance (ADA) to help improve their ability to identify malicious apps before they are published to the Google Play store.
Read moreAdult popunder campaign used in mainstream ad fraud scheme
Categories: Threat Intelligence Taking advantage of cost effective and high traffic adult portals, a threat actor is secretly defrauding advertisers by displaying Google ads under the disguise of an XXX page. |
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Read moreMalwarebytes earns AV-TEST Top Product awards for fourth consecutive quarter
Categories: Business AV-TEST, a leading independent tester of cybersecurity solutions, has just ranked Malwarebytes as a Top Product for consumers and businesses for the fourth quarter in a row. |
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