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Trend Micro 3rd Quarter Threat Report

Trend Micro Canada [1]Trend Micro [1] threat researchers are seeing a significant shift from mass compromises to targeted attacks, particularly against large enterprises and government institutions. According to Trend Micro’s Third Quarter Threat Report [2], their work led them to the uncovering of one of the most notable groups of targeted attacks during the third quarter – the LURID downloader.

These attacks, classified by Trend Micro as advanced persistent threats (APTs), targeted major companies and institutions in over 60 countries, including Russia, Kazakhstan, and the Ukraine. The cybercriminals behind these attacks launched over 300 malware campaigns in order to obtain confidential data from and take full control of affected users’ systems over an extended period of time. LURID was successful because it was targeted by its nature. By zoning in on specific geographic locations and entities, LURID compromised as many as 1,465 systems.

Other notable security attacks, scams, breaches and exploits:

In addition to the discovery of the LURID downloader, Trend Micro and other global security teams made impressive takedowns in Q3: