MOUNTAIN VIEW – November 02, 2026 -- Google, Plume, TrendAI, Lumen, HUMAN Security, Synthient and Japan's National Police Agency have taken down X.CPE, a botnet hidden in more than 1.3 million TV set-top boxes across more than 200 countries. Google assesses that disrupting the botnet's command-and-control domains will also cut off access to at least 10 million additional compromised devices.

Tokyo – October 19, 2026 -- Trend Micro (TSE: 4704) plans to make available up to ¥10 billion in TrendAI Flex licensing credits under a new Japan Cyber Resilience Initiative, as publicly disclosed cyber incidents in Japan hit 607 in the first nine months of 2026, already above the 594 recorded for all of 2025.

The incident tally comes from TrendAI threat research and is current as of October 9, 2026. Trend Micro notes the figure may change as incidents are disclosed retroactively and further cases are added.

Dallas – October 12, 2026 -- Japan recorded more publicly disclosed cybersecurity incidents in the first nine months of 2026 than in all of 2025, according to TrendAITM Forward-Looking Threat Research data. TrendAITM, the enterprise business unit of Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704), issued a threat advisory for Japanese organizations after a senior ruling-party lawmaker declared that "cyberspace is in a state of emergency."

Dallas – – September 29, 2026 -- TrendAI, the AI security business unit of Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), has expanded its integration with Claude's Compliance API inside TrendAI Vision One, giving security teams visibility into AI agent prompts, responses and tool calls alongside existing security telemetry.

Dallas – – September 29, 2026 -- TrendAI, the enterprise AI security unit of Trend Micro (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), has entered private preview with TrendAI Vision One Autonomous Vulnerability Discovery, a service that pairs an agentic AI engine with validation from the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), described as the world's largest vendor-agnostic bug bounty program.

Dallas – September 28, 2026 -- TrendAI, the AI security business unit of Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), announced support for the NVIDIA Agent Safety Platform, combining hardware-level detection on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs with Zero Day Initiative threat intelligence to help enterprises move autonomous agent fleets from pilot programs into production.