Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 28, 2023

HackerOne has announced that its bug bounty programs have awarded over $300 million in rewards to ethical hackers and vulnerability researchers since the platform's inception. [.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition is over, bug hunters earned $1,038,500 for 58 zero-day exploits. The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition is over, the organizers awarded $1,038,250 for 58 unique 0-days. The Team Viettel ( @vcslab ) won the Master of Pwn with $180K and 30 points. The vulnerabilities exploited by the experts have been disclosed to the vendors, the ZDI gives them 90 days to address these flaws.

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Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada is dealing with a potentially massive data breach, as hackers email parents their children's' data that was allegedly stolen during a recent cyberattack. [.

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Data breaches 121

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Most, if not all malvertising incidents result from a threat actor either injecting code within an existing ad, or intentionally creating one. Today, we look at a different scenario where, as strange as that may sound, malvertising was entirely accidental. The reason this happened was due to the combination of two separate factors: a compromised website and Google Dynamic Search Ads.

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Malware Software Advertising Hacking 113

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The Hacker News

OCTOBER 28, 2023

New findings have shed light on what's said to be a lawful attempt to covertly intercept traffic originating from jabber[.]ru (aka xmpp[.]ru), an XMPP-based instant messaging service, via servers hosted on Hetzner and Linode (a subsidiary of Akamai) in Germany.

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WIRED Threat Level

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Plus: Details emerge of a US government social media-scanning tool that flags “derogatory” speech, and researchers find vulnerabilities in the global mobile communications network.

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