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The group, dubbed "Pawn Storm" by security firm Trend Micro, used email phishing tricks and attempted to install malware at think tanks tied to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Feike Hacquebord said.

“There are several things which suggest that the group behind the Macron hacking was also responsible for the DNC breach, for example. We found similarities in the IP addresses and malware used in the attacks,” said Rik Ferguson, vice president of Trend Micro’s security research program.

Machine learning serves as a heavy lifter in security software protecting businesses’ data from cyber criminals’ exfiltration efforts. Since the first deluge of spam created the demand for email security, Trend Micro has been researching and implementing strategies for combining computer intelligence with the wisdom of human experience. Its XGen™ Smart Protection Suite focuses on endpoint, email, and web security, all of which are regularly exploited by criminals.

The security community has gained itself the title of being the team of "no": No clicking on links, no browsing particular websites, no installing certain software. Trend Micro Global VP of cloud security Mark Nunnikhoven told ZDNet this needs to change, because if security is everybody's responsibility, organisations need to act that way.

Looking specifically at the Adobe Flash advisory, Brian Gorenc, senior manager of vulnerability research at Trend Micro, noted that five of the seven fixed issues came through Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) program and two of the bugs (CVE-2017-3062 and CVE-2017-3063) were disclosed through Pwn2Own, which is operated by Trend Micro's ZDI.

Cybersecurity solutions company Trend Micro Incorporated has announced it is enhancing protection of small business endpoints by adding its newest capabilities of XGen security to Trend Micro Worry-Free Services.

An anonymous hacker working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) disclosed the bugs, which affects Apple TV and watchOS too.

“A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability in the IIS WebDAV Component with a crafted request using PROPFIND method. Successful exploitation could result in denial of service condition or arbitrary code execution in the context of the user running the application,” said Virendra Bisht, a vulnerability researcher at Trend Micro.

“Other threat actors are now in the stages of creating malicious code based on the original proof-of-concept (PoC) code,” researchers from Trend Micro said in a blog post Wednesday.

I learned this past Saturday that my good friend and Trend Micro CTO, Raimund Genes, passed away suddenly last week. Raimund was only 54.