TrendMicro Employee Sold Customer Info to Tech Support Scammers
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/trendmicro-employee-sold-customer-info-to-tech-support-scammers/
https://blog.trendmicro.com/trend-micro-discloses-insider-threat-impacting-some-of-its-consumer-customers/
The lowest of the low, for what would probably be a small sum, this P.O.S. has effectively destroyed his career. How could anyone trust them after this.
Hopefully the next step will be a period of imprisonment (long I hope as a deterrent to others), further stuffing up their future employment. I bet they never even considered if they got caught how it would effect their future employment.
This is also a terrible blow to the company itself since this is the second breach within a year.
Outside attacks are something every business is constantly guarding against.
An attack from an insider is the hardest to guard against and is often only discovered after
a lot of damage has already been caused.
Two Trend Micro zero-days exploited in the wild by hackers
https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-trend-micro-zero-days-exploited-in-the-wild-by-hackers/
Tech’s Volkswagen moment? Trend Micro accused of cheating Microsoft driver QA by detecting test suite
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/20/trend_accused_microsoft_cheating
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/27/trend_micro_driver_windows_10/
https://billdemirkapi.me/How-to-use-Trend-Micro-Rootkit-Remover-to-Install-a-Rootkit/