Apple rewarded hacker Rs 75 Lakh for finding Security Hole in Safari Browser
By MYBRANDBOOK
Apple found a major security hole at a popular hackathon event where hackers, enthusiasts and developers came together to find vulnerabilities in their programs and software. Apple awarded the hacker a $100,000 cash prize.
This discovery was a part of the Pwn2Own 2021 event -- an official hacking contest where one researcher who goes by the name of Jack Dates was awarded the aforementioned amount for discovering a zero-day exploit in Apple’s Safari web browser.
As announced by Zero Day Initiative on Twitter, for this discovery, Dates used an integer overflow in Safari and an OOD Write to execute a kernel code. The execution would allow the hacker to gain full control of the Mac, as well as the files on it. This is surprising considering the vulnerability was found in an app that Apple ships pre-installed into its systems and is recommended to be safest by the company against cyber attacks.
With the vulnerability now revealed, hopefully, Apple would release a patch to fix this soon. Jack Dates was not only rewarded with a $100,000 cash prize, but he was also offered 10 Master of Pwn points. Basically, this vulnerability allowed a guest or a regular user to gain more access in a system, opening doors for it to be compromised. For this discovery, they were awarded $40,000.
Apart from this, researchers have been looking for vulnerabilities in Zoom, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge this year. The three-day event awarded winning researchers a total of $1,210,000.
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