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Hackers will soon be able to stress-test the Facebook Portal at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest, following the introduction of the social media giant’s debut hardware device last year.

Trend Micro is among the top five endpoint security vendors who’ve been in the battle since the earliest iterations of antivirus software, more than three decades ago. The company has evolved far beyond those days. They came to Las Vegas prepared to push detection and response beyond the endpoint.

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.