Earth Krahang Exploits Intergovernmental Trust to Launch Cross-Government Attacks

Credit to Author: Joseph C Chen| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Since early 2022, we have been monitoring an APT campaign that targets several government entities worldwide, with a strong focus in Southeast Asia, but also seen targeting Europe, America, and Africa.

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A Necessary Digital Odyssey of RPA and AI/ML at HUD

Credit to Author: David Chow| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Explore two RPA and AI/ML use cases at HUD during the operational challenges of the longest US Government shutdown, a rigid legacy IT environment, and complex federal regulations.

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Unveiling Earth Kapre aka RedCurl’s Cyberespionage Tactics With Trend Micro MDR, Threat Intelligence

Credit to Author: Buddy Tancio| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This blog entry will examine Trend Micro MDR team’s investigation that successfully uncovered the intrusion sets employed by Earth Kapre in a recent incident, as well as how the team leveraged threat intelligence to attribute the extracted evidence to the cyberespionage threat group.

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Multistage RA World Ransomware Uses Anti-AV Tactics, Exploits GPO

Credit to Author: Nathaniel Morales| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The Trend Micro threat hunting team came across an RA World attack involving multistage components designed to ensure maximum impact.

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Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections

Credit to Author: Cedric Pernet| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

During our monitoring of Earth Lusca, we noticed a new campaign that used Chinese-Taiwanese relations as a social engineering lure to infect selected targets.

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LockBit Attempts to Stay Afloat With a New Version

Credit to Author: Trend Micro Research| Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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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Global Cybersecurity Trends: AI, Geopolitical Risks, and Zero Trust

Credit to Author: David Chow| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Trend Micro’s Chief Technology Strategy Officer discusses the biggest cybersecurity trends and what to watch for in 2024.

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SmartScreen Vulnerability: CVE-2024-21412 Facts and Fixes

Credit to Author: Trend Micro Research| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This entry aims to provide additional context to CVE-2024-21412, how it can be used by threat actors, and how Trend protects customers from this specific vulnerability.

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

Credit to Author: Peter Girnus| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The APT group Water Hydra has been exploiting the zero-day 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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