$320,000 Paid Out at Zeroday.Cloud for Open Source Software Exploits

Participants earned rewards at the hacking competition for Grafana, Linux Kernel, Redis, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL vulnerabilities.

Researchers earned a total of $320,000 at the Zeroday.Cloud live hacking competition organized this week in London by cloud security giant Wiz.

Wiz teamed up with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft for Zeroday.Cloud, which had a total prize pool of $4.5 million for vulnerabilities in core cloud and AI technologies.

Participants were invited to demonstrate exploits across six categories, including AI, Kubernetes and cloud native, containers and virtualization, web server, DevOps and automation, and database. Rewards ranging between $10,000 and $300,000 have been offered.

The white hat hackers who took part in the event earned a total of $320,000 for 11 exploits targeting various open source technologies.

On the first day of Zeroday.Cloud, researchers were awarded a total of $200,000. The biggest single payout was ...