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Hackers earn $1,078,750 for 28 zero-days at Pwn2Own Berlin
The Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 hacking competition has concluded, with security researchers earning $1,078,750 after exploiting 29 zero-day vulnerabilities and encountering some bug collisions.
- May 19, 2025
- 10:03 AM
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Hackers exploit VMware ESXi, Microsoft SharePoint zero-days at Pwn2Own
During the second day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, competitors earned $435,000 after exploiting zero-day bugs in multiple products, including Microsoft SharePoint, VMware ESXi, Oracle VirtualBox, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Mozilla Firefox.
- May 16, 2025
- 11:23 AM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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Windows 11 and Red Hat Linux hacked on first day of Pwn2Own
On the first day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, security researchers were awarded $260,000 after successfully demonstrating zero-day exploits for Windows 11, Red Hat Linux, Docker Desktop, and Oracle VirtualBox.
- May 15, 2025
- 11:48 AM
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BlackCat ransomware uses new ‘Munchkin’ Linux VM in stealthy attacks
The BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware operation has begun to use a new tool named 'Munchkin' that utilizes virtual machines to deploy encryptors on network devices stealthily.
- October 19, 2023
- 05:40 PM
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Microsoft Teams, Virtualbox, Tesla zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own
During the second day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, competitors were awarded $475,000 after successfully exploiting 10 zero-days in multiple products.
- March 23, 2023
- 07:33 PM
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Windows 11, Tesla, Ubuntu, and macOS hacked at Pwn2Own 2023
On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, security researchers successfully demoed Tesla Model 3, Windows 11, and macOS zero-day exploits and exploit chains to win $375,000 and a Tesla Model 3.
- March 22, 2023
- 07:53 PM
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Microsoft Teams, Windows 11 hacked on first day of Pwn2Own
During the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022, contestants won $800,000 after successfully exploiting 16 zero-day bugs to hack multiple products, including Microsoft's Windows 11 operating system and the Teams communication platform.
- May 19, 2022
- 07:39 AM
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Microsoft removes Windows 11 update block for VirtualBox users
Microsoft has removed the last Windows 11 safeguard hold after Oracle addressed a known VirtualBox issue causing errors and virtual machine start failures when Hyper-V or the Windows Hypervisor were installed.
- March 14, 2022
- 11:14 AM
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Windows 11: Microsoft is investigating these eight problems
Windows 11 is officially released, and users are running into various issues and problems preventing them from upgrading or using the new operating system correctly. Below we have collected eight known issues affecting Windows 11 and when they are expected to be fixed.
- October 09, 2021
- 10:11 AM
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Windows 11 is no longer compatible with Oracle VirtualBox VMs
Windows 11 is no longer compatible with the immensely popular Oracle VirtualBox virtualization platform after Microsoft changed its hardware requirement policies for virtual machines.
- September 18, 2021
- 01:59 PM
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Maze ransomware now encrypts via virtual machines to evade detection
The Maze ransomware operators have adopted a tactic previously used by the Ragnar Locker gang; to encrypt a computer from within a virtual machine.
- September 17, 2020
- 02:24 PM
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Ransomware encrypts from virtual machines to evade antivirus
Ragnar Locker is deploying Windows XP virtual machines to encrypt victim's files while evading detecting from security software installed on the host.
- May 22, 2020
- 11:51 AM
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