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Security researchers said they’ve found a new kind of malware that takes its instructions from code hidden in memes posted to Twitter.

You have probably seen dank memes that really speak to you, but research shows that memes can also be made to speak to malware that has infected a computer. A piece of malware analyzed in a report published Friday by Trend Micro responds to executable commands embedded in images posted on Twitter.

New research has highlighted an old problem: The Internet of Things isn't exactly secure. Hardly news, you might say, but the researchers from Trend Micro discovered that two popular IoT protocols are insecure by design. So insecure, indeed, that they are putting both 'Industry 4.0' smart factory implementations and smart cities at risk. In fact, these are the design flaws that could quite literally turn the lights out.

Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro today published a report on the state of IoT security. The company found that two of the leading machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols have inherent design issues, and are frequently deployed in an insecure manner.

NEWS ANALYSIS: AWS is on a $27 billion run rate growing 46 percent a year, CEO Andy Jassy said. Its customer and partner rolls continue to swell, and it's even taking its first steps into what until now has been a missing link: open source.

Security researchers competing in the Pwn2Own competition in Tokyo this week earned a collective $325,000 for demonstrating new exploits on devices made by Samsung, Xiaomi, and Apple.

Pwn2Own, a series of contests run by the Zero Day Initiative, brings security researchers to compete to expose the most vulnerabilities in popular software and devices. The competition in Tokyo on Tuesday and Wednesday focused on mobile devices.

As the popularity of cryptocurrency rises, so does the amount of cryptominer Tojans that are being created and distributed to unsuspecting victims. One problem for cryptominers, though, is that the offending process is easily detectable due to their heavy CPU utilization.

Trend Micro and NTT DoCoMo collaborated on an IoT network security service. It is built on the Trend Micro virtual network function suite on DoCoMo’s 5G open cloud.

An unknown threat actor has been targeting organizations with botnet malware that communicates with its command-and-control server via the Internet Relay Chat application layer protocol. Nicknamed Outlaw, the hacking group developed the botnet as a Perl language-based variant of Shellbot, according to a Nov. 1 blog post from Trend Micro, whose researchers uncovered the threat.

AI and machine learning won't magically solve all of the IT world's security problems, despite what some of the hype might suggest. Used sparingly, though, these technologies can make a security team's life much easier when operating at scale.