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Over the last decade, the Zero Day Initiative's (ZDI) annual Pwn2Own competition has emerged to become one of the premiere events on the information security calendar and the 2017 edition does not look to be any different.

Trend Micro last week announced the availability of the latest Trend Micro TippingPoint NX Series Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems (NGIPS).

Trend Micro has also analyzed the attacks and determined that the threat actor sent out the spear-phishing emails from compromised accounts, particularly ones belonging to attorneys and associates at various law firms.

"The $1 billion number isn't at all unreasonable and might even be low," confirmed Mark Nunnikhoven, vice president of cloud research at Trend Micro.

Ransomware is set to have another bumper year in 2017, although growth is likely to level out, according to Trend Micro.

The HiveSpot goes one step further than both the Orbi and the Velop however, by offering Ai Protection at no extra cost. This is a built-in network security suite powered by Trend Micro that detects and blocks online security threats. Basically the entire home network powered by the HiveSpot system is protected in real-time against online malware and cyber threats.

“Enterprises that have edge-of-network devices could find theirs utilized by hacktivists and other threat actors in launching DDoS attacks,” said Trend Micro Inc. Director of Global Threat Communications Jon Clay. “The Mirai botnet code has been made available publicly so anyone could utilize this to recruit new IoT devices that are not secured properly. Enterprises which have IoT devices should be sure to update any account credentials used by the devices as well as ensuring the devices are

A newly discovered family of malware targeting ATMs (automated teller machines) has been designed with the sole purpose of emptying cash from the safes of the self-serve machines, Trend Micro security researchers warn.

As per Trend Micro’s report, ransomware has almost doubled in the first half of 2016 with a 172% growth in comparison to the past year.

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