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The Gentlemen is Making Its Mark in the Ransomware World
Jeffrey Burt | | AttackIQ, BlackFog, Blackpoint Cyber, Check Point Research, Cybereason, double extortion ransomware, GuidePoint Security, NCC Group, Proxies, RaaS, Ransomware, SystemBC, The Gentlemen, Trend Micro
The Gentlemen RaaS group emerged onto the scene a year ago and in that time has racked up affiliates and victims at an alarming rate, becoming the second most active ransomware group ...
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Jailbroken Gemini AI Model Supercharged Russian-Speaker’s Fraud Campaign
Jeffrey Burt | | ai llm jailbreak, API Keys, credential stealing, crypto fraud, Google Gemini, MAGA, pump-and-dump, QAnon, RAT malware, Trend Micro
A solo Russian-speaking threat actor was able to scale his small five-year fraud operation aimed at MAGA and QAnon followers last year when he began using a jailbroken Google Gemini AI model ...
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Spyware Makers Topped Google’s List of Zero-Day Exploits for the First Time in 2025
Jeffrey Burt | | china, CSV, Google TAG, GTIG, Intellexa, Microsoft, nation-state actors, North Korea, NSO Group, Pegasus Spyware, Trend Micro, zero-day attack
For the first time, spyware makers topped Google's list of organizations that exploited zero-day flaws in 2025, overtaking nation-state actors from China, Russia, and elsewhere and continuing a trends that Google researchers ...
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Using AI to Predict and Disrupt Evolving Cyberattacks
Rachel Jin, chief enterprise platform officer at Trend Micro, explains how multiple forms of artificial intelligence (AI) will be used to predict and disrupt cyberattacks even as they grow in volume and ...
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New Bert Ransomware Evolves With Multiple Variants
An emerging ransomware group that calls itself Bert is quickly evolving after hitting the cybercrime scene in April, targeting both Windows and Linux systems used by organizations in the health care, tech, ...
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Deuterbear RAT: China-Linked Hackers’ Cyber Espionage Tool
Wajahat Raja | | Advanced persistent threat (APT), BlackTech, China-linked Hackers, Command-and-control (C&C), Cyber Espionage, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity News, Deuterbear RAT, DLL side-loading, Remote Access Trojan (RAT), Shellcode plugins, Trend Micro, Waterbear malware
Media reports claim that cybersecurity experts have recently unveiled new details about a remote access trojan (RAT) named Deuterbear, employed by the China-linked hacking group BlackTech. This sophisticated Deuterbear RAT malware is ...
DarkGate Malware Campaign Exploits Patched Microsoft Flaw
Wajahat Raja | | Advanced persistent threat (APT), Cyber Attack Mitigation, Cybersecurity News, cybersecurity threats, DarkGate Malware, DLL Sideloading, Exploit Techniques, Malicious Software Installers, Malware Analysis, Microsoft Flaw, patch management, Phishing Campaigns, Trend Micro, Water Hydra, Zero Day Initiative (ZDI)
The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) by Trend Micro uncovered a phishing campaign that exploited a patched Microsoft flaw to infect devices with DarkGate malware. CVE-2024-21412 was the Microsoft patch that was exploited ...
Trend Micro Adds AI Tool While Extending CNAPP Reach
Michael Vizard | | Cloud Security, Cloud-Native Security, cnapp, generative AI, Incident Response, Trend Micro
Trend Micro's generative AI tool, Trend Companion, leverages natural language to reduce toil by bringing context to alerts and reducing incident investigation times ...
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RomCom Malware Group Targets EU Gender Equality Summit
A hacker group that continues to extend its reach from financially motivated attacks into cyber-espionage this summer targeted attendees of a gender equality conference with a pared-down version of the RomCom remote ...
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APT Group Red Menshen is Rapidly Evolving its BPFDoor Malware
Red Menshen is an APT group that is rapidly evolving its BPFDoor backdoor malware that targets systems running Linux or Solaris ...
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