Researchers found more than 80 high-impact cloud and AI vulnerabilities during the event, which had a $5 million prize pool.
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China Revives Tianfu Cup Hacking Contest Under Increased Secrecy
Rewards for exploits are reportedly much smaller than in the contest’s glory days.
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$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.
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Google Paid Out $458,000 at Live Hacking Event
Researchers submitted 107 bug reports during the bugSWAT hacking event at the ESCAL8 conference in New Mexico.
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$4.5 Million Offered in New Cloud Hacking Competition
Wiz has teamed up with Microsoft, Google and AWS and is inviting cloud security researchers to its Zeroday.Cloud competition.
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Microsoft Offers $5 Million at Zero Day Quest Hacking Contest
Research demonstrating high-impact cloud and AI security flaws will be rewarded at Microsoft’s Zero Day Quest competition in spring 2026.
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$2.5 Million Offered at Upcoming ‘Matrix Cup’ Chinese Hacking Contest
The Chinese hacking contest Matrix Cup is offering big rewards for exploits targeting OSs, smartphones, enterprise software, browsers, and security products.
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Google Patches Chromecast Vulnerabilities Exploited at Hacking Contest
Google has patched several high and moderate-severity Chromecast vulnerabilities demonstrated earlier this year at a hacking competition.
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