$4.5 Million Offered in New Cloud Hacking Competition

Cloud security giant Wiz has announced a new hacking competition where participants can earn significant rewards for demonstrating exploits against widely used cloud software.

The competition is named Zeroday.Cloud and it offers participants a total of $4.5 million in bug bounties. Interested security researchers must submit their entry by December 1 and they will demonstrate their exploits live on stage at the Black Hat Europe conference taking place December 10-11 in London.

Wiz has teamed up with AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft for Zeroday.Cloud. It’s worth noting that Google has announced plans to acquire Wiz for $32 billion.

The Zeroday.Cloud hacking competition covers six categories. One of them is AI, with participants being offered maximum prizes ranging between $25,000 and $40,000 for hacking products such as Ollama, vLLM, and Nvidia Container Toolkit.

In the Kubernetes and cloud native category, prizes range between $10 ...