Security News

Critical Trend Micro vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2023-41179)
2023-09-21 08:39

Trend Micro has fixed a critical zero-day vulnerability in several of its endpoint security products for enterprises that has been spotted being exploited in the wild."Trend Micro has observed at least one active attempt of potential exploitation of in the wild," the company shared.

Trend Micro Releases Urgent Fix for Actively Exploited Critical Security Vulnerability
2023-09-20 05:28

Cybersecurity company Trend Micro has released patches and hotfixes to address a critical security flaw in Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security solutions for Windows that has been actively...

Trend Micro fixes endpoint protection zero-day used in attacks
2023-09-19 21:11

Trend Micro fixed a remote code execution zero-day vulnerability in the Trend Micro's Apex One endpoint protection solution that was actively exploited in attacks. Apex One is an endpoint security solution catering to businesses of all sizes, and the 'Worry-Free Business Security' suite is designed for small to medium-sized companies.

Trend Micro warns of actively exploited Apex One RCE vulnerability
2022-09-13 14:48

Security software firm Trend Micro warned customers today to patch an actively exploited Apex One security vulnerability as soon as possible. "Improper validation of some components used by the rollback mechanism in Trend Micro Apex One and Trend Micro Apex One as a Service clients could allow a Apex One server administrator to instruct affected clients to download an unverified rollback package, which could lead to remote code execution," the company explained in a security advisory published today.

Windows 11 KB5014019 breaks Trend Micro ransomware protection
2022-05-26 19:44

This week's Windows optional cumulative update previews have introduced a compatibility issue with some of Trend Micro's security products that breaks some of their capabilities, including the ransomware protection feature. "The UMH component used by several Trend Micro endpoint and server protection products is responsible for some advanced features such as ransomware protection," the antivirus vendor revealed.

Trend Micro fixes bug Chinese hackers exploited for espionage
2022-05-24 16:09

Trend Micro says it patched a DLL hijacking flaw in Trend Micro Security used by a Chinese threat group to side-load malicious DLLs and deploy malware. As Sentinel Labs revealed in an early-May report, the attackers exploited the fact that security products run with high privileges on Windows to plant and load their own maliciously crafted DLL into memory, allowing them to elevate privileges and execute code.

Trend Micro antivirus modified Windows registry by mistake — How to fix
2022-05-07 14:03

Trend Micro antivirus has fixed a false positive affecting its Apex One endpoint security solution that caused Microsoft Edge updates to be tagged as malware and the Windows registry to be incorrectly modified. As users further revealed, the Trend Micro Apex One flagged the browser updates as Virus/Malware: TROJ FRS.VSNTE222 and Virus/Malware: TSC GENCLEAN. Fix and workaround available.

Trend Micro modified Windows registry by mistake — How to fix
2022-05-07 14:03

Trend Micro has fixed a false positive issue affecting its Apex One endpoint security solution leading to Microsoft Edge updates being tagged as malware and Windows registry changes. As users further revealed, the Trend Micro Apex One flagged the browser updates as Virus/Malware: TROJ FRS.VSNTE222 and Virus/Malware: TSC GENCLEAN. Fix and workaround available.

Trend Micro fixes actively exploited remote code execution bug
2022-04-01 16:58

Japanese cybersecurity software firm Trend Micro has patched a high severity security flaw in the Apex Central product management console that can let attackers execute arbitrary code remotely. Apex Central is a web-based management console that helps system admins manage Trend Micro products and services throughout the network.

Check Point Full Disk Encryption vs. Trend Micro Endpoint Encryption
2022-03-15 15:31

Check Point Full Disk Encryption Software Blade offers automatic security for all data on endpoint hard drives. Check Point Full Disk Encryption Software Blade has more data security offerings to complement Full Disk Encryption.