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Trend Zero Day Initiative™ (ZDI) is a program designed to reward security researchers for responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities.

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Joined November 2009
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@thezdi
Trend Zero Day Initiative
8 months
Announcing #Pwn2Own Berlin! We're moving our enterprise-focused event to @offensive_con and introducing an AI category. More than $1,000,000 in cash & prizes (Incl. a Tesla) are available to win. Check out the details at
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zerodayinitiative.com
If you just want to read the contest rules, click here . Willkommen, meine Damen und Herren, zu unserem ersten Wettbewerb in Berlin! That’s correct (if Google translate didn’t steer me wrong). While...
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@thezdi
Trend Zero Day Initiative
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Zed and @dustin_childs get in the spirit of things as they preview #Pwn2Own Ireland #P2OIreland
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@thezdi
Trend Zero Day Initiative
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The Master of Pwn trophy for #Pwn2Own Ireland has arrived. Quoth this raven - hack some more. #P2OIreland
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Trend Zero Day Initiative
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Announcing #Pwn2Own Automotive 2026! We're heading back to Tokyo and we're adding new targets Level 3 charging thanks to @alpitronic & the OCTT thanks to the Open Charge Alliance. Tesla is back, too. Check out the details at
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If you just want to read the rules, click here .  Now entering its third year, Pwn2Own Automotive returns to Automotive World in Tokyo on January 21 – 23, 2026. Over the last two years, we’ve awarded...
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@thezdi
Trend Zero Day Initiative
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No time to read all about #Microsoft's biggest Patch Tuesday ever? Check out the Patch Report for October. @dustin_childs break down the release and highlights the more interesting bugs.
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@thezdi
Trend Zero Day Initiative
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It's #Microsoft's biggest monthly release ever with more than 170 CVEs addressed - including 3 0-days being exploited in the wild. #Adobe had a small release, with a few interesting items. Join @dustin_childs as he breaks down a spooky patch Tuesday
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zerodayinitiative.com
I’m currently in Cork, Ireland as we prepare for Pwn2Own Ireland, but that doesn’t stop patch Tuesday from coming. Take a break from your scheduled activities and let’s take a look at the latest...
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@thezdi
Trend Zero Day Initiative
11 days
Crafting a Full Exploit RCE from a Crash in Autodesk Revit RFA File Parsing: Trend ZDI researcher Simon Zuckerbraun shows how to go from a crash to a full exploit - & he provides you tools to do the same, including his technique used to get ROP execution.
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zerodayinitiative.com
In April of 2025, my colleague Mat Powell was hunting for vulnerabilities in Autodesk Revit 2025. While fuzzing RFA files, he found the following crash ( CVE-2025-5037 / ZDI-CAN-26922 , addressed by...
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TheZDIBugs
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[ZDI-25-933|CVE-2025-49844] (Pwn2Own) Redis Lua Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVSS 9.8; Credit: Benny Isaacs, Nir Brakha, Sagi Tzadik (@sagitz_))
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(Pwn2Own) Redis Lua Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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@TheZDIBugs
TheZDIBugs
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[ZDI-25-930|CVE-2025-11202] win-cli-mcp-server resolveCommandPath Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVSS 9.8; Credit: Peter Girnus (@gothburz) of Trend Research)
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zerodayinitiative.com
win-cli-mcp-server resolveCommandPath Command Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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@gothburz
Petrus Germanicus
17 days
@TrendMicro
Trend Micro
17 days
We’re super excited about #Pwn2Own Ireland too, @Wiz_io - you’re welcome to come back and participate again. We’ve been doing this for a while and we’ll have a $1M bounty on the line. Bring your best, but maybe don’t copy our rules next time and we might help you judge entries 😉
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TheZDIBugs
17 days
[ZDI-25-926|CVE-2025-58321] Delta Electronics DIALink Directory Traversal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVSS 10.0)
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Delta Electronics DIALink Directory Traversal Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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@dustin_childs
The Dustin Childs
17 days
Hey @wiz_io - congrats on starting your own contest ( https://t.co/Z3IXmOQnRq) but uh... did you have to cut/paste sections of the rules from @thezdi? Seems like you should at least run that through ChatGPT to reword it. I guess imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism.
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zeroday.cloud
Join the world's top researchers in a competition to find zero-day vulnerabilities in core open-source software powering the cloud. $4.5M prize pool!
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Trend Zero Day Initiative
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Trend Zero Day Initiative
25 days
CVE-2025-23298: Trend ZDI's @gothburz covers an RCE in the #NVIDIA Merlin Transformers4Rec library. He details the root cause and the patch to fix it. Finally, he highlights highlights several important lessons for the AI/ML security community.
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zerodayinitiative.com
While investigating the security posture of various machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks, the Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) Threat Hunting Team discovered a...
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TheZDIBugs
1 month
[ZDI-25-900|CVE-2025-43346] Apple macOS OGG Audio File Header Parsing Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVSS 8.8; Credit: Hossein Lotfi (@hosselot) of Trend Zero Day Initiative)
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Apple macOS OGG Audio File Header Parsing Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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@thezdi
Trend Zero Day Initiative
1 month
No time to read the blog? Just like living walls and shrubbery? Check out the Patch Report for September 2025. @dustin_childs summarizes the Patch Tuesday release from the @TrendMicro Dallas office and points out the patches with extra flair.
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Trend Zero Day Initiative
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It's a moderate release from both #Adobe and #Microsoft, but there's still lots to cover. Join @dustin_childs as he breaks down the September Patch Tuesday and highlights some fixes that require some extra attention.
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zerodayinitiative.com
There’s a crispness in the air – at least here in North America – and with it comes the latest security patches from Adobe and Microsoft. Take a break from your scheduled activities and join us as we...
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@POC_Crew
POC_Crew
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[POC2025] KEYNOTE SPEAKER UPDATE 👤 Brian Gorenc(@MaliciousInput) – "From Buffer Overflows to Breaking AI: Two Decades of ZDI Vulnerability Research" ZDI(@thezdi) also stands with their 20 years! Now AI finds 0days— but the bugs? still the same old mess. #POC2025
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Trend Zero Day Initiative
2 months
We're prepping for #Pwn2Own Ireland. We have a surge protector filled with #Amazon smart plugs, with #Philips Hue Bridge devices, which are controlling the lights. And ignore the surge protector going into a surge protector plugged into a extension cord. Don't try this at home,
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@thezdi
Trend Zero Day Initiative
2 months
We have updated the #Pwn2Own Ireland rules to clarify scoping for WhatsApp for Windows. For WhatsApp for Windows, both “WhatsApp” and the “WhatsApp Beta” applications are in scope for the competition. #P2OIreland
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zerodayinitiative.com
If you just want to read the rules, you can find them here . Updated on 8/15 to clarify printer target models. Updated on 8/22 to clarify scoping for WhatsApp for Windows. Last year, we moved our...
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