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A report from Trend Micro detailed some of the latest ways cybercriminals are using the social media platform to defraud users of their cash. Trend Micro analyzed Twitter data over a three-day period in February and found criminals are gaming search engine results to lure more victims.

Data from Black Hat’s fifth attendee survey of more than 300 information security professionals uncovered massive concern over the security of the 2020 U.S. presidential election – and most think the picture is bleak. “In any jurisdiction where digital election technology is not treated like critical infrastructure it is akin to having unregulated ATM machines,” said Greg Young, vice president of cybersecurity at Trend Micro.

Enterprise search engine Elasticsearch is under threat of being turned into a sophisticated cryptocurrency mining botnet to be used in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Trend Micro describes a new malware strain that launches multi-stage attacks on publicly accessible databases and servers that run old versions of Elasticsearch software.

Trend Micro said it has made its Deep Security as a Service product available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Launching at Microsoft’s Inspire 2019 event, the Trend Micro offering lets organizations combine the benefits of security software-as-a-service (SaaS) with consolidated cloud billing and usage-based, metered pricing.

Trend Micro announced the extension of its industry leading network protection to the cloud, now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. This was delivered in response to the operational challenges enterprises often experience with available network security solutions. It will first be available for AWS Transit Gateway, with multiple deployment models planned to follow.