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ZDI Vanguard Award 2025: Most Prolific Researcher

At Black Hat USA 2025, Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative presented the ZDI Vanguard Award to TecSecurity founder Rocco Calvi (@TecR0c) for Most Prolific Researcher – recognising the researcher with the highest number of contracted vulnerability cases with ZDI. The award was presented at Trend Micro’s booth as part of ZDI’s 20th anniversary celebrations.
By the Numbers
The award reflects over 300 remote code execution vulnerabilities reported to ZDI across a range of target categories: