Month: June 2020

Eight cities across three states in the United States have fallen victim to a Magecart card skimming attack. In these attacks, their websites were compromised to host credit card skimmers which passed on the credit card information of residents to cybercriminals. These sites all appear to have been built using Click2Gov, a web-based platform meant… Continue reading US Local Government Services Targeted by New Magecart Credit Card Skimming Attack

Insights and analysis by Augusto Remillano II With additional analysis by Patrick Noel Collado and Karen Ivy Titiwa We have recently detected variants of two existing Linux botnet malware types targeting exposed Docker servers; these are XORDDoS malware (detected by Trend Micro as Backdoor.Linux.XORDDOS.AE) and Kaiji DDoS malware (detected by Trend Micro as DDoS.Linux.KAIJI.A). Having… Continue reading XORDDoS, Kaiji Botnet Malware Variants Target Exposed Docker Servers 

By Ecular Xu and Joseph C. Chen While tracking Earth Empura, also known as POISON CARP/Evil Eye, we identified an undocumented Android spyware we have named ActionSpy (detected by Trend Micro as AndroidOS_ActionSpy.HRX). During the first quarter of 2020, we observed Earth Empusa’s activity targeting users in Tibet and Turkey before they extended their scope… Continue reading New Android Spyware ActionSpy Revealed via Phishing Attacks from Earth Empusa

This month’s Patch Tuesday had the highest number of entries so far in 2020 — a whopping 129, a continuation of the trend seen from the previous months. The update includes fixes for LNK, SMB, SharePoint, and Win32k vulnerabilities. While the update contained a significant number of patches, only 11 were rated Critical. One of… Continue reading Patch Tuesday: Fixes for LNK, SMB, and SharePoint Bugs

By Ford Qin (Mobile Threats Analyst) In late March, researchers from CheckPoint found the Tekya malware family, which was being used to carry out ad fraud, on Google Play. These apps have since been removed from the store, but we recently found a variant of this family that had made its way onto Google Play… Continue reading New Tekya Ad Fraud Found on Google Play

By Jessie Huang (Mobile Threats Analyst) We recently saw two barcode reader apps in Google Play, together downloaded more than a million times, that started showing unusual behavior (Trend Micro detects these as AndroidOS_HiddenAd.HRXJA). This includes behavior that can be seen even when the user is not actively using the phones; the video below shows… Continue reading Barcode Reader Apps on Google Play Found Using New Ad Fraud Technique