Bug Bounties Continue to Rise, but Market Has Its Own 1% Problem

[TechWeb]( Follow Dark Reading: [RSS]( August 30, 2019 LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY [Bug Bounties Continue to Rise, but Market Has Its Own 1% Problem]( The average payout for a critical vulnerability has almost reached $3,400, but only the top bug hunters of a field of 500,000 are truly profiting. [Retadup Worm Squashed After Infecting 850K Machines]( An operation involving French law enforcement, the FBI, and Avast forces Retadup to delete itself from victim machines. [New Botnet Targets Android Set-Top Boxes]( ARES has already infected thousands of devices and is growing, IoT security firm says. [Privacy 2019: We're Not Ready]( To facilitate the innovative use of data and unlock the benefits of new technologies, we need privacy not just in the books but also on the ground. [Google Cloud Releases Beta of Managed Service to Microsoft AD]( Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory was built to help admins handle cloud-based workloads. [Google Announces New, Expanded Bounty Programs]( The company is significantly expanding the bug-bounty program for Google Play and starting a program aimed at user data protection. [MORE NEWS & COMMENTARY]( HOT TOPICS [WannaCry Remains No. 1 Ransomware Weapon]( Of all of the ransomware variants spotted targeting victims in the first half of 2019, the infamous WannaCry was by far the most prevalent, according to Trend Micro's detection data. [Fancy Bear Dons Plain Clothes to Try to Defeat Machine Learning]( An analysis of a sample published by the US government shows Russian espionage group APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, has stripped down its initial infector in an attempt to defeat ML-based defenses. ['Culture Eats Policy for Breakfast': Rethinking Security Awareness Training]( What's definitely not working with end-user cybersecurity awareness training - and what you can do about it. 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