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Pwn2Own 2021, more than $1,500,000 in cash and prizes for contestants

Security Affairs

That’s one reason we added this new category and teamed up with Zoom to have them in the contest. A successful demonstration of an exploit in either of these products will earn the contestant $200,000 – quite the payout for a new category.” Microsoft Teams will also be a target. ” reads the announcement published by ZDI.

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Threat landscape for industrial automation systems. Statistics for H1 2023

SecureList

Categories of malicious objects Only one of the categories grew in H1 2023: denylisted internet resources. The percentage of ICS computers on which threats in this category are blocked has grown for the second half-year in a row.

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Groundbreaking Report Exposes Stark Exclusion of Women in Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

The 2023 State of Inclusion Benchmark in Cybersecurity report quantifies the dramatically worse workplace experiences of women compared to men across virtually every measured category. When averaged across all experience categories such as respect, career growth, access, and recognition, women faced exclusion at twice the rate of men.

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Black Basta ransomware now supports encrypting VMware ESXi servers

Security Affairs

Black Basta ransomware gang implemented a new feature to encrypt VMware ESXi virtual machines (VMs) running on Linux servers. The Black Basta ransomware gang now supports encryption of VMware ESXi virtual machines (VMs) running on Linux servers.

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Network tunneling with… QEMU?

SecureList

It is that category of software that we would like to discuss here. What use would the malicious actors have for a virtualizer? m 1M : Specifies the RAM size to allocate to the virtual machine. user (user network stack) This is the simplest way of connecting a virtual machine to a network.

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BrandPost: Firewalls: Severely Limited in DDoS Attack Protection

CSO Magazine

Many cybersecurity companies rely on devices such as firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), load balancers, and other edge devices to protect enterprise networks from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. But the reality is that such devices contain “state” information that’s used for routing and traffic management.

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Pwn2Own 2021 Day 1 – participants earned more than $500k

Security Affairs

There were also two failed attempts, the STAR Labs team of Billy, Calvin and Ramdhan targeting Parallels Desktop in the Virtualization category were not able to get their exploit to work within the time allotted. The overall payout pool for Pwn2Own 2021 exceeds $1.5 million in cash and other prizes. Pierluigi Paganini.