Peter Williams stole trade secrets from his US employer and sold them to a Russian cybersecurity tools broker.
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$1M WhatsApp Hack Flops: Only Low-Risk Bugs Disclosed to Meta After Pwn2Own Withdrawal
WhatsApp told SecurityWeek that the two low-impact vulnerabilities cannot be used for arbitrary code execution.
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Pwn2Own WhatsApp Hacker Says Exploit Privately Disclosed to Meta
Questions have been raised over the technical viability of the purported WhatsApp exploit, but the researcher says he wants to keep his identity private.
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Hackers Earn Over $520,000 on First Day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2025
Participants exploited 34 previously unknown vulnerabilities to hack printers, NAS devices, and smart home products.
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RondoDox Botnet Takes ‘Exploit Shotgun’ Approach
The botnet packs over 50 exploits targeting unpatched routers, DVRs, NVRs, CCTV systems, servers, and other network devices.
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New Exploit Poses Threat to SAP NetWeaver Instances
A new public exploit chains two critical flaws in SAP NetWeaver, exposing unpatched instances to code execution attacks.
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$1 Million Offered for WhatsApp Exploit at Pwn2Own Ireland 2025
Meta is sponsoring ZDI’s Pwn2Own hacking competition, where participants can earn big prizes for smartphone, WhatsApp and wearable device exploits.
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SharePoint Under Attack: Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild – No Patch Available
Enterprises running SharePoint servers should not wait for a fix for CVE-2025-53770 and should commence threat hunting to search for compromise immediately.
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Technical Details Published for Critical Cisco IOS XE Vulnerability
The critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-20188 (CVSS score of 10/10), allows attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely.
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Hackers Earn Over $1 Million at Pwn2Own Berlin 2025
Pwn2Own participants demonstrated exploits against VMs, AI, browsers, servers, containers, and operating systems.
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