Vulnerabilities Microsoft Paid Out $2.3 Million at Zero Day Quest 2026 Hacking Contest Researchers found more than 80 high-impact cloud and AI vulnerabilities during the event, which had a $5 million prize pool. Eduard KovacsApril 16, 2026
Government China Revives Tianfu Cup Hacking Contest Under Increased Secrecy Rewards for exploits are reportedly much smaller than in the contest’s glory days. Eduard KovacsFebruary 13, 2026
Cloud Security $320,000 Paid Out at Zeroday.Cloud for Open Source Software Exploits Participants earned rewards at the hacking competition for Grafana, Linux Kernel, Redis, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL vulnerabilities. Eduard KovacsDecember 12, 2025
Vulnerabilities Google Paid Out $458,000 at Live Hacking Event Researchers submitted 107 bug reports during the bugSWAT hacking event at the ESCAL8 conference in New Mexico. Ionut ArghireNovember 12, 2025
Cloud Security $4.5 Million Offered in New Cloud Hacking Competition Wiz has teamed up with Microsoft, Google and AWS and is inviting cloud security researchers to its Zeroday.Cloud competition. Eduard KovacsOctober 6, 2025
Vulnerabilities Microsoft Offers $5 Million at Zero Day Quest Hacking Contest Research demonstrating high-impact cloud and AI security flaws will be rewarded at Microsoft’s Zero Day Quest competition in spring 2026. Ionut ArghireAugust 5, 2025
Vulnerabilities $2.5 Million Offered at Upcoming ‘Matrix Cup’ Chinese Hacking Contest The Chinese hacking contest Matrix Cup is offering big rewards for exploits targeting OSs, smartphones, enterprise software, browsers, and security products. Eduard KovacsMay 13, 2024
Vulnerabilities Google Patches Chromecast Vulnerabilities Exploited at Hacking Contest Google has patched several high and moderate-severity Chromecast vulnerabilities demonstrated earlier this year at a hacking competition. Eduard KovacsDecember 11, 2023