Apple, Oracle, VMware products successfully hacked at Pwn2Own

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

https://www.cyberscoop.com/pwn2own-2019-day-one-apple-oracle-vmware/

By Joe Warminsky
CYBERSCOOP
March 21, 2019

The white-hat hacking team of Amat Cama and Richard Zhu, together known as 
“Flouroacetate,” took home the majority of the prize money available on the 
first day of this year’s Pwn2Own competition in Vancouver, demonstrating 
zero-day exploits against Apple’s Safari browser as well as virtualization 
software from Oracle and VMware.

Other winners on Wednesday included “anhdaden,” also known as Phạm Hồng Phi of 
Singapore-based cybersecurity company STAR Labs, who targeted the Oracle 
software; and the phoenhex & qwerty team — Bruno Keith, Niklas Baumstark and 
Luca Todesco — which targeted Safari. Flouracetate won $160,000 total, while 
anhdaden earned $35,000 and phoenhex & qwerty claimed $45,000 in prize money.

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