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A huge reward is being offered for information leading to the identification or location of any of the leaders of the LockBit ransomware gang.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Continue reading Bring us the head of LockBit! $15 million bounty offered for information on leaders of notorious ransomware gang
As with many things in life, motivation is everything. This also applies to the development of software, which is a field that has become immensely important over the past decades. …read more Continue reading Do Bounties Hurt FOSS?
The IRS want to trace Monero transactions, which – unlike Bitcoin – are entirely private Cracking Monero could help the IRS trace those who have avoided paying tax, and assist in criminal investigations Do you think you can crack Monero’s layers of pri… Continue reading Can You Crack Monero? IRS Offers $625,000 Bounty for Anyone Who Can Break Privacy of Cryptocurrency
HackerOne, a bug bounty platform used by numerous companies and people around the world, just celebrated a new milestone, reaching $100 million in bounties paid. The term “hacker” might be associated in popular culture with malicious intent… Continue reading HackerOne Celebrates $100 Million in Bounties Paid
Know where Maksim “Aqua” Yakubets is? Can you pry him out of Russia and his Lamborghinis? The biggest ever cybercrook reward awaits! Continue reading $5m bounty set on the alleged head of Evil Corp banking Trojan group
A Taiwanese bug hunter says that he will livestream his attempt to delete Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page this weekend. Chang Chi-yuan is something of a minor celebrity in Taiwan, having regularly publicised security holes in online services, and… Continue reading Zuckerberg’s Facebook page? I’ll livestream its deletion, says hacker
A round up of the security news from July 16 – July 22, including the release of our quarterly Cybercrime tactics and techniques report, breaches, airport security, bug bounties, and more.
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Some of the biggest players in various industries have turned to the crowdsourced security model – white hat-driven bug bounty programs – in a race to identify emerging vulnerabilities before the black hats do. The crowdsourced security mod… Continue reading Bug bounty payouts double in 2018; India reports the most bugs while U.S. wins highest payouts
Exploit acquisition vendor Zerodium said Wednesday it will pay up to $1M for an unknown Tor Browser zero day. Continue reading Zerodium Offering $1M for Tor Browser Zero Days
YouPorn recently announced that it will pay researchers who discover security vulnerabilities. But why would a free porn site need this anyway? Continue reading Porn Sites Are Finally Getting the Right Idea on Bug Bounties