VMware Patches Vulnerabilities Exploited at Chinese Hacking Contest


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VMware Patches Vulnerabilities Exploited at Chinese Hacking Contest By Eduard Kovacs on November 20, 2020 Tweet VMware on Thursday announced releasing patches for a couple of serious ESXi vulnerabilities that were demonstrated at a recent hacking contest in China. At the 2020 Tianfu Cup International PWN Contest, which took place earlier this month in China, participants earned a total of more than $1.2 million for exploits targeting Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Adobe Reader, Docker, VMware ESXi, CentOS, the iPhone, the Samsung Galaxy S20 phone, Windows, and routers from TP-Link and Asus. The 360 ESG Vulnerability Research Institute from Chinese cybersecurity company...