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At this year's installment of Pwn2Own, a hacking competition that's been taking place since 2007, the duo of Samuel Groß and Niklas Baumstark did exactly that.

The Pwn2Own contest runs every year during the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. It's organized and sponsored by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), an exploit acquisition program operated by Trend Micro after its acquisition of TippingPoint.

Named after its command and control (C&C) panel, the malware “needs only another component from the server to conduct its RAM scraping routine,” Trend Micro says.

Cybercriminals out of West Africa pilfered an average of $2.7 million from businesses and $422,000 on average from individuals during 2013-2015, according to new INTERPOL and Trend Micro data, a rate that is on the rise.

Trend Micro is reporting a new threat to Linux-based Internet of Things (IoT) devices that is specifically able to exploit a specific vulnerability in surveillance cameras made by AVTech.

Cybercrime-related complaints in West Africa soared from 940 in 2013 to 2,182 in 2015, says “Cybercrime in West Africa,” a report jointly done by the global police network known as Interpol and Trend Micro, a security software company with headquarters in Tokyo. Only 30 percent of the cybercrimes reported to police in the region lead to arrests, it said.

West Africa is poised to become a cyber crime hot spot, according to new research out this morning from security firm Trend Micro and Interpol, the international police organization.

This year, TrendMicro sees a 25-percent growth in the number of new ransomware families available for use in breaches.

This year, TrendMicro sees a 25-percent growth in the number of new ransomware families available for use in breaches. Reports of the encroachment of ransomware on government, law enforcement, critical infrastructure, and health and safety are already climbing.

In 2016, security firm Trend Micro counted 247 new ransomware families, compared to just 29 in 2015.