Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative has already published 600 security advisories in 2018, paying out $1 million in awards to researchers. So far, 2018 has been a very busy year for Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, which is in the business of acquiring software vulnerabilities from security researchers. Through the first six months of the year, ZDI has already published 600 security advisories. In contrast, in the first half of 2017, ZDI published 451 advisories. However, while ZDI has p...
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According to PhishMe analysis, on September 28 threat actors used a phishing narrative that claimed to deliver a scanned document needing the recipient's attention. Attached to the message was a .7z archive containing a malicious VBScript application tasked with obtaining and running the Locky ransomware or the TrickBot banking trojan....
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Oracle has released a whopping 248 security updates across a range of products as part of the firm's quarterly patch release cycle.The record-breaking Oracle Critical Patch Update - January 2016 provides fixes for E-business suite,Java SE and Database Server,and includes a number of critical updates to reduce the risk of attack.Sixty-nine of the 78 security updates for E-business suite fix vulnerabilities that could be "remotely exploitable without authentication", according to the...
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A new report by LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, Cybercrime Report covering July 2019 through December 2019, reveals how fraud has increasingly become borderless on a global scale. As the report analysis shows, cybercrime is a well-organized, global endeavor powered by networks of fraud. While consumers enjoy access to goods and services from all over the world, fraudsters are able to harness stolen identity data to launch corresponding cross-border fraud attacks, says the report.This global, net...
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Cybersecurity threats are seemingly omnipresent in today’s hyper-connected, digital world. In fact — no surprise here — they will only continue to increase in sophistication, frequency, diversity, scale, and scope this year and in the near future. New Internet-based technologies aimed at creating efficiencies and increasing connectivity between people and places also help proliferate cyber threats and risks.As more internet-connected devices go online and the so-called “a...
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“We want to learn about these rare new exploitation techniques as early as possible, ideally before they are used, but we’ll pay for them even if they are currently being used in targeted attacks if the attack technique is new – because we want them dead or alive,” said Katie Moussouris, senior security strategist lead, Microsoft Trustworthy Computing.
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