Hacking events

Reserve your spot now. Nothing captures that truth better than live hacking events LHE. This post is about what LHEs are, how hackers can increase their chances of being invited to hack, and where we see these events expanding. Live hacking is a unique type of bug bounty engagement in which hackers from all over the globe fly in to participate in an in-person, timeboxed testing period focusing on a targeted set of assets. This traditionally includes two-weeks leading up to the event culminating in days in a particular city.

During those several days, we bring the programs' security teams and hackers together for social activities, sightseeing, knowledge-sharing, and of course, lots of hacking.

The first live hacking event was set up by Frans Rosen , and Justin Calmus in Live hacking events have come a long way since then, improving the structure and experience for top hackers and customers alike.

To date, HackerOne has hosted 17 events, with 13 customers, totaling 33 days of hacking in 10 different cities around the world. In early summer , HackerOne published a capture the flag CTF contest where the winners that found all the flags the fastest with the best writeup would be invited to the h live hacking later that year.

After the event, he made it a point to focus on bug bounty, with the goal to earn his way back to a live hacking event. Both began humbly in applying their CTF skills to bug bounty, and we are so proud to see them continue to crush it.

It happened on the October 27th, in Taguig City, Philippines. It happened on the October 29th, in Santiago, Mexico. It happened on the October 21st, in Leon, Spain. It happened on the December 4th, in Islamabad, Pakistan.

It happened on the October 12th, in Tagaytay, Philippines. A Chinese-linked hacking group gained access to calling records and text messages from telecommunication carriers across the globe, according to a report from CrowdStrike.

The report outlines the group began its cyberattacks in and infiltrated at least 13 telecommunications networks. A cyberattack targeted the government-issued electronic cards Iranians use to buy subsidized fuel and altered the text of electronic billboards to display anti-regime messages against the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

A group with ties to Iran attempted to hack over Office accounts. All the targeted accounts were either U. The hackers edited the contents of the webpage and indicated that the cyberattack was retribution for an Indonesian hack on the Brazilian state website.

Hackers leaked data and photos from the Israeli Defense Ministry after gaining access to servers and websites, overall compiling around 11 terabytes of data. An American company announced that the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR launched a campaign targeting resellers and other technology service providers that customize, deploy and manage cloud services.

September Chinese state-linked hackers targeted Afghan telecom provider Roshan and stole gigabytes of data from their corporate mail server over the past year.

Since , Russian operators hacked the social media accounts of government officials and news websites, with the goal of creating distrust in U. Some experts have stipulated the hackers have ties to Iran, but no link has been confirmed.

The Lithuanian Defense Ministry found hidden features in popular 5G smartphone models manufactured in China, according to its state-run cybersecurity body. The module embedded in the phones detects and censors keywords or groups of keywords that are counter to the message of the Chinese government. The actor responsible is still unknown, but the cyberattack led to the government extending voting by two days.

The U. Department of Justice sentenced Ghaleb Alaumary to more than 11 years in prison for aiding North Korean cybercriminals in money laundering. His assistance included ATM cash-out operations, cyber-enabled bank heists, and business email compromise BEC schemes. These attacks targeted banks, professional soccer clubs, and other unnamed companies in the U. A cyberattack against the United Nations occurred in April , targeting users within the UN network to further long-term intelligence gathering.

The hacker was able to access their networks through stolen user credentials purchased on the dark web. The Norwegian Government stated a series of cyberattacks against private and state IT infrastructure came from bad actors sponsored by and operating from China. Researchers and cybersecurity experts revealed a mobile espionage campaign against the Kurdish ethnic group.

Hackers targeted individuals on Facebook, persuading them to download apps that contain Android backdoors utilized for espionage. In April , Chinese bots swarmed the networks of the Australian government days after Australia called for an independent international probe into the origins of the coronavirus.

These bots looked for potential vulnerabilities on the network to exploit in future cyberattacks. August A cyberattack on the government of Belarus compromised dozens of police and interior ministry databases. A hacking group targeted a high-profile Iranian prison, uncovering documents, videos, and images that display ed the violent treatment of its prisoners.

The group claims to be hacktivists demanding the release of political prisoners. Hacks initially attributed to Iran in and were found to be conducted by Chinese operatives. A cyberattack on the Covid vaccine-scheduling website for the Italian region of Lazio forced the website to temporarily shut down. New vaccination appointments were unable to be scheduled for several days after the attack. Various Chinese cyber-espionage groups are responsible for the hacks of at least five major Southeast Asian telecommunication providers beginning in The attacks were carried out by three different hacking groups and are seemingly unlinked despite all groups having a connection to Chinese espionage efforts.

Experts at ZecOps formulated a NoReboot trick that can let anyone interrupt and simulate an iOS restart operation, while also maintaining persistence on the infected systems. The technique counts on the fact that several social engineering hacks are designed not to target the technology, but to ex Researchers uncovered cybercriminals using a malicious Telegram installer to drop Purple Fox Rootkit.

It is believed to be spreading using email or probably via phishing websites. Phase-based operations and dependency on different files for each phase make this attacker go unnoticed from security s Security experts developed a three-phased approach that leverages electromagnetic field emanations to detect evasive malware on IoT devices including the unseen variants.

The electromagnetic emanation calculated from the device is nearly undetectable by the malware.