Google Opens $250K Bug Bounty Contest for VM Hypervisor (www.darkreading.com)

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If security researchers can execute a guest-to-host attack using a zero-day vuln in the KVM open source hypervisor, Google will make it worth their while.

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[-] EmperorHenry@infosec.pub 3 points 5 days ago

looks like google is going bankrupt in a bit

[-] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 4 points 5 days ago

Why? They're not placing the bug bounty on their own code... But KVM the in kernel virtualization platform built into Linux.

this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2024

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