Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs Year in Review: $13.7M in Rewards

Security researchers are a vital component of the cybersecurity ecosystem that safeguards every facet of digital life and commerce. The researchers who devote time to uncovering and reporting security issues before adversaries can exploit them have earned our collective respect and gratitude. The...

Lazarus on the hunt for big game

We may only be six months in, but theres little doubt that 2020 will go down in history as a rather unpleasant year. In the field of cybersecurity, the collective hurt mostly crystallized around the increasing prevalence of targeted ransomware attacks. By investigating a number of these incidents...

Top MSRC 2020 Q2 Security Researchers Announced – Congratulations!

We are excited to announce the top contributing researchers for the 2020 Second Quarter Q2! Congratulations to all the researchers who continue to rock the leaderboard, and a big thank you to everyone for your contribution to securing our customers and the ecosystem. The top three researchers of...

Microsoft Intelligent Security Association expands to include managed security service providers

We’d planned a splashy party at Microsoft Inspire to announce our newest Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA members and introduce them to association members, but given our world today, I am instead picturing you reading this announcement curled up in a chair with a cup of coffee...

Logic flaw vulnerability in Globalvillage ecosystem

Globalvillage ecosystem GVE is a virtual currency system based on blockchain technology.A security vulnerability exists in the 'approveAndCallcode' function in GVE's smart contract implementation, which stems from the program's failure to validate the callcode. The vulnerability can be exploited ...

March 2020 -- What's New in Security, Part 1

Welcome to Akamai's March 2020 Release! This release offers a week of product updates, with each day highlighting continued innovations across a different area of Akamai's product portfolio: Monday and Tuesday feature two days of security updates. There's a lot going on in Akamai's security...

Necurs Botnet in Crosshairs of Global Takedown Offensive

A New York State court issued an order this week giving Microsoft control of the U.S.-based infrastructure used by the notorious Necurs botnet in an effort to stop the world’s most prolific and globally dispersed spam and malware infrastructure. The move came after Microsoft and partners across 3...

Necurs Botnet in Crosshairs of Global Takedown Offensive

A New York State court issued an order this week giving Microsoft control of the U.S.-based infrastructure used by the notorious Necurs botnet in an effort to stop the world’s most prolific and globally dispersed spam and malware infrastructure. The move came after Microsoft and partners across 3...

March 10, 2020—KB4540705 (OS Build 15063.2313)

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RUSTSEC-2020-0010 tiberius is unmaintained

The author of tiberius has archived the GitHub repository and left the following note: I do not have the time to overhaul the library and do not intend to further maintain the 0.3 version relying on the old futures ecosystem. Suggested alternatives are: - odbc - sqlx forthcoming...

tiberius is unmaintained

The author of tiberius has archived the GitHub repository and left the following note: I do not have the time to overhaul the library and do not intend to further maintain the 0.3 version relying on the old futures ecosystem. Suggested alternatives are: - odbc - sqlx forthcoming...

MISA expands with new members and new product additions

Another RSA Conference RSAC and another big year for the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA. MISA was launched at RSAC 2018 with 26 members and a year later we had doubled in size to 53 members. Today, I am excited to share that the association has again doubled in size to 102 member...

New 'Haken' Malware Found On Eight Apps In Google Play Store

Researchers have identified eight malicious Android apps in the official Google Play marketplace distributing a new malware family. The “Haken” malware exfiltrates sensitive data from victims and covertly signs them up for expensive premium subscription services. The eight apps in question, which...

Celebrating Decades of Success with Microsoft at the Security 20/20 Awards

Effective collaboration is key to the success of any organization. But perhaps none more so than those working towards the common goal of securing our connected world. That’s why Trend Micro has always been keen to reach out to industry partners in the security ecosystem, to help us collectively...

Information disclosure in the listEntityLinks servlet resource of the Application links plugin - CVE-2019-15011

The version of the Application Links plugin used in Crucible before version 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to obtain information about configured application links via a missing permissions check. See https://ecosystem.atlassian.net/browse/APL-1386 for more details...

The cybercrime ecosystem: attacking blogs

Executive summary The Cybercrime Ecosystem is a series of articles explaining how cybercriminals operate, what drives them, what techniques they use and how we, regular Internet users, are part of that ecosystem. The articles will also cover technical details and up-to-date research on the threat...

November 19, 2019—KB4525251 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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Google Enlists Help to Fight Bad Android Apps

After years of unsuccessfully battling malware and bad apps in the Google Play store and on more than 2.5 billion Android devices, Google is finally doing something about it. The tech giant this week unveiled an alliance with three companies with specific expertise in endpoint security to help...

CVE-2013-5123

The mirroring support -M, --use-mirrors in Python Pip before 1.5 uses insecure DNS querying and authenticity checks which allows attackers to perform man-in-the-middle attacks...

Akamai Identified as a Leader Among Zero Trust Providers by Independent Research Firm

We are pleased to share that Akamai has been identified as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q4 2019. In the report, Forrester evaluated how each vendor's portfolio maps and delivers on specific components of the Zero Trust eXtended ZTX framework...