{"id":2606,"date":"2019-08-16T19:35:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gcp.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/unit-42-named-top-zero-day-vulnerability-contributor-by-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T19:35:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:35:49","slug":"unit-42-named-top-zero-day-vulnerability-contributor-by-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/unit-42-named-top-zero-day-vulnerability-contributor-by-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 42 Named Top Zero-Day Vulnerability Contributor by Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Palo Alto Networks is proud that Microsoft has recognized our Unit 42 global threat intelligence team with multiple awards for its contributions to vulnerability research, including<\/span> first place for discovery of Zero Day vulnerabilities<\/span><\/a>. Microsoft also recognized Unit 42 researchers Gal De Leon and Bar Lahav in its annual list of the <\/span>Most Valuable Security Researchers<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unit 42, which also won third place for \u201cVulnerability Top Contributor,\u201d was the only research group to win in two categories at this year\u2019s Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) Contributing Partners awards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be recognized by the MSRC team for responsibly disclosing these vulnerabilities to Microsoft and providing information needed to develop patches and protect customers,\u201d Gal De Leon said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Unit 42 researcher Gal De Leon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unit 42 reported <\/span>27 zero-day vulnerabilities<\/span><\/a> to Microsoft from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019.\u00a0 They include a Zero-Day local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Windows Error Reporting component, which was exploited in the wild. We discussed that vulnerability in a July 2 technical blog, <\/span>Tale of a Windows Error Reporting Zero-Day (CVE-2019-0863)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Zero-Day vulnerabilities are exploitable flaws in the code of legitimate applications and operating systems that haven\u2019t previously been publicly disclosed.\u00a0 They can be exploited by threat actors to launch attacks which are much tougher for organizations to protect against, even when they are using up-to-date security tools.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unit 42 is thrilled that its researchers were acknowledged by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) \u201cMost Valuable Security Researchers\u201d program for a fourth consecutive year<\/span><\/p>\n

We salute all 75 researchers who were honored at this year\u2019s awards, which were presented during the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft looks at the volume of vulnerability reports as well as their impact and accuracy when deciding who to recognize<\/span><\/i><\/a>, according to Sylvie Liu, security program manager for MSRC Community Programs.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Palo Alto Networks has identified more than 200 vulnerabilities in the ecosystems of vendors including Adobe, Apple, Google Android and Microsoft. <\/span><\/p>\n

By proactively identifying these vulnerabilities, developing protections for our customers, and sharing the information with the security community, we are removing weapons that attackers use to threaten organizations. Palo Alto Networks is a key participant in the <\/span>Microsoft Active Protections Program<\/span><\/a>, which provides early access to vulnerability information so that we can provide proactive protection to customers through Next Generation Firewall Threat Prevention Security Services subscriptions and Traps Advanced Endpoint Protection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unit 42 reports on zero-day vulnerabilities and other threats are available on its threat research blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The post Unit 42 Named Top Zero-Day Vulnerability Contributor by Microsoft<\/a> appeared first on Palo Alto Networks Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Palo Alto Networks is proud that Microsoft has recognized our Unit 42 global threat intelligence team with multiple awards for its contributions to vulnerability research, including first place for discovery of Zero Day vulnerabilities. Microsoft also recognized Unit 42 researchers Gal De Leon and Bar Lahav in its annual list of the Most Valuable Security<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[141,33,29,27,34],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/galdeleon-2-500x333.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}