Windows 10, Linux, iOS, Chrome and Many Others at Hacked Tianfu Cup 2021

Windows 10, iOS 15, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Ubuntu 20 were successfully broken into using original, never-before-seen exploits at the Tianfu Cup 2021, the fourth edition of the international cybersecurity contest held in the city of Chengdu, China. Targets this...

[The Lost Bots] Bonus Episode: Velociraptor Contributor Competition

!\The Lost Bots\ Bonus Episode: Velociraptor Contributor Competitionhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpeg Welcome back for a special bonus edition of The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice...

Cybercriminals Hold $115,000-Prize Contest to Find New Cryptocurrency Hacks

A top Russian-language underground forum has been running a "contest" for the past month, calling on its community to submit "unorthodox" ways to conduct cryptocurrency attacks. The forum's administrator, in an announcement made on April 20, 2021, invited members to submit papers that assess the...

How Akamai Employees Showed Up for Akamai Earth Month

Photo from an Akamai employee who took her bike out to enjoy nature during Akamai Earth Month. Akamai employees across the globe showed up in full force for Akamai Earth Month 2021 -- our campaign to help employees take small actions at home and in their community to make a difference for the...

VMware Fixes Critical Flaw in ESXi Hypervisor

VMware has hurried out fixes for a critical flaw in its ESXi hypervisor, a few weeks after it was found during China’s Tianfu Cup hacking competition. The use-after-free vulnerability CVE-2020-4004 has a CVSS score of 9.3 out of 10, making it critical. It exists in the eXtensible Host Controller...

The Feds Want These Teams to Hack a Satellite—From Home

Meet the hackers who, this weekend, will try to commandeer an actual orbiter as part of a Defcon contest hosted by the Air Force and the Defense Digital Service...

Announcing the Seventh Annual Flare-On Challenge

The Front Line Applied Research & Expertise FLARE team is honored to announce that the popular Flare-On challenge will return for a triumphant seventh year. Ongoing global events proved no match against our passion for creating challenging and fun puzzles to test and hone the skills of aspiring a...

This Bot Hunts Software Bugs for the Pentagon

Mayhem emerged from a 2016 government-sponsored contest at a Las Vegas casino hotel. Now it's used by the military...

Sodinokibi Ransomware Group Sponsors Hacking Contest

White hats aren’t alone in holding hacking contests. Russian-language cybercriminals are known for running similar competitions on underground forums. However, an analysis of Dark Web activity has uncovered a trend towards offering increasingly high-stakes prizes during such battles. At the same...

Inside Pwn2Own's High-Stakes Industrial Hacking Contest

At Pwn2Own, hackers had no trouble dismantling systems that help run everything from car washes to nuclear plants...

Pwn2Own Miami Contestants Haul in $180K for Hacking ICS Equipment

The very first Pwn2Own hacking competition that exclusively focuses on the industrial control systems ICS has kicked off in Miami. So far, a total of $180,000 has been awarded for pwning five different products. The contest hosts at Trend Micro’s Zero Day initiative ZDI have allocated more than...

GitLab Doles Out Half a Million Bucks to White Hats

GitLab has awarded a total of $565,650 in security bug bounties to 171 researchers who reported valid vulnerabilities in the past year — and has announced the winners of its latest hacking contest. GitLab, which started out as a web-based Git repository manager before moving into the DevOps...

This Week in Security News: Pwn2Own Adds Industrial Control Systems to Hacking Contest and Cyber Crooks Target ESports

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Among news from this week, learn about Pwn2Own’s new hacking contest that will take place in Miami next year. Also, as October was Cybersecurity...

WordPress Contest Gallery plugin <= 10.4.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability found by Cryptography Laboratory in WordPress Contest Gallery plugin versions = 10.4.4. Solution Update the WordPress Contest Gallery plugin to the latest available version at least 10.4.5...

CVE-2019-5974

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in Contest Gallery versions prior to 10.4.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2019-5974

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in Contest Gallery versions prior to 10.4.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators via unspecified vectors...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in Contest Gallery versions prior to 10.4.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2019-5974

The CVE-2019-5974 entry describes a Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WordPress Contest Gallery plugin, affecting versions prior to 10.4.5. According to the connected sources, an attacker could hijack the administrator’s authenticated session via unspecified vectors when a lo...

CVE-2019-5974

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in Contest Gallery versions prior to 10.4.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators via unspecified vectors...

WordPress Plugin "Contest Gallery" vulnerable to cross-site request forgery

Overview WordPress Plugin "Contest Gallery" provided by Contest-Gallery contains a cross-site request forgery vulnerability CWE-352. Okazawa Yoshihiro of Cryptography Laboratory,Department of Information and Communication Engineering,Tokyo Denki University directly reported this vulnerability to...