Cyberespionage Group Earth Hundun’s Continuous Refinement of Waterbear and Deuterbear
Our blog entry provides an in-depth analysis of Earth Hundun’s Waterbear and Deuterbear malware. Read More HERE…
Trend Micro Research : Malware
TeamCity Vulnerability Exploits Lead to Jasmin Ransomware, Other Malware Types
CVE-2024-27198 and CVE-2024-27199 are vulnerabilities within the TeamCity On-Premises platform that can allow attackers to gain administrative control over affected systems. Read More HERE…
Earth Lusca Uses Geopolitical Lure to Target Taiwan Before Elections
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. Read More HERE…
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. Read More HERE…
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. Read More HERE…
Analyzing AsyncRAT’s Code Injection into aspnet_compiler.exe Across Multiple Incident Response Cases
This blog entry delves into MxDR’s unraveling of the AsyncRAT infection chain across multiple cases, shedding light on the misuse of aspnet_compiler.exe, a legitimate Microsoft process originally designed for precompiling ASP.NET web applications. Read More HERE…
Attack Signals Possible Return of Genesis Market, Abuses Node.js, and EV Code Signing
The Trend Micro Managed XDR team encountered malicious operations that used techniques similar to the ones used by Genesis Market, a website for facilitating fraud that was taken down in April 2023. Read More HERE…
A Closer Look at ChatGPT’s Role in Automated Malware Creation
This blog entry explores the effectiveness of ChatGPT’s safety measures, the potential for AI technologies to be misused by criminal actors, and the limitations of current AI models. Read More HERE…
Threat Actors Leverage File-Sharing Service and Reverse Proxies for Credential Harvesting
We analyzed a phishing campaign involving malicious emails containing a link to a file-sharing solution, which further leads to a PDF document with a secondary link designed to steal login info and session cookies. Read More HERE…
Beware: Lumma Stealer Distributed via Discord CDN
This blog discusses how threat actors abuse Discord’s content delivery network (CDN) to host and spread Lumma Stealer, and talks about added capabilities to the information stealing malware. Read More HERE…