Researchers earned a complete of $320,000 on the Zeroday.Cloud reside hacking competitors organized this week in London by cloud safety big Wiz.
Wiz teamed up with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft for Zeroday.Cloud, which had a complete prize pool of $4.5 million for vulnerabilities in core cloud and AI applied sciences.
Members have been invited to reveal exploits throughout six classes, together with AI, Kubernetes and cloud native, containers and virtualization, internet server, DevOps and automation, and database. Rewards ranging between $10,000 and $300,000 have been provided.
The white hat hackers who took half within the occasion earned a complete of $320,000 for 11 exploits focusing on numerous open supply applied sciences.
On the primary day of Zeroday.Cloud, researchers have been awarded a complete of $200,000. The largest single payout was $40,000 for a Linux kernel exploit.
Researchers earned $30,000 every for 5 database system exploits: three focusing on Redis and two geared toward PostgreSQL.
An authenticated distant code execution exploit focusing on the Grafana observability platform earned a staff $10,000.
On the second day, members earned a complete of $120,000. Three completely different targets have been efficiently compromised for $30,000 every: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and Redis. Redis was exploited a second time, bringing its complete reward for the day to $60,000.
Researchers additionally tried to reveal exploits for the vLLM and Ollama LLM instruments, however their makes an attempt have been unsuccessful throughout the allotted timeframe.Commercial. Scroll to proceed studying.
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