Adobe Patches Reader Flaws That Earned Hackers $150,000 at Chinese Contest
Adobe on Tuesday announced security updates for several products, including for Acrobat and Reader, in which the software giant patched a total of 26...
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Apple Patches Vulnerabilities That Earned Hackers $500,000 at Chinese Contest
The iOS and macOS security updates released on Monday by Apple patch vulnerabilities that earned researchers more than $500,000 at a Chinese hacking contest...
Maze/Egregor Ransomware Earned over $75 Million – E Hacking News
Researchers at Analyst1 have noticed that the Maze/Egregor ransomware cartel has made at least $75 million in ransom payments to date. This figure...
Details Disclosed for GitHub Pages Flaws That Earned Researchers $35,000
A researcher has disclosed the details of a series of vulnerabilities that could have been exploited by an attacker to access an organization’s private...
Fleeceware apps earned over $400 million on Android and iOS – E Hacking News
Researchers at Avast have found an aggregate of 204 fleece ware applications with over a billion downloads and more than $400 million in...
Stored XSS Vulnerability on iCloud.com Earned Researcher $5,000
A bug bounty hunter claims he has earned a $5,000 reward from Apple for reporting a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on iCloud.com. Vishal...
Bug Bounty Hunters Earned Over $4M for XSS Flaws Reported via HackerOne in 2020
This year, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) continued to be the most common vulnerability type and received the highest amount of rewards on HackerOne, the hacker-powered...
HackerOne Says Bug Bounty Hunters Earned $100 Million Through Its Platform
HackerOne announced on Wednesday that its bug bounty platform has helped researchers earn more than $100 million since the company started paying hackers in...
Hackers have earned $1.7 million so far from trading data stolen from US gov payment portals
When a government body creates a self-service payment system for paying for everything from utility bills to permits and fines, you would expect convenience...