Viettel expert won 3 years at the world’s leading cyberattack competition
Pwn2Own, the world’s leading cyberattack competition, has just announced that two security experts from Viettel Cyber Security Company (Viettel Cyber Security) – Military Industry and Telecommunications Group (Viettel) have won at Pwn2Own. Vancouver 2022.
Participating in this year’s contest, 2 Viettel experts won the Local Elevation of Privilege category with the goal of Microsoft Windows 11. The contest also featured more than 20 top players. from famous technology companies such as STAR Labs, Sea Security…
This is the third time that Viettel security experts have been honored at this contest. Earlier at Pwn2Own Tokyo 2020, Viettel also had 2 winners when hijacking Samsung and Sony SmartTVs, and at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2021, 2 other experts also successfully exploited vulnerabilities on Windows operating systems. 10 and Microsoft Exchange Server.
Two players honored at this year’s contest, Dao Trong Nghia (born in 1998), is one of the network security experts who has discovered more than 12 important security holes of the Windows operating system. for the second time in a row Nghia participated and was honored at the Pwn2Own contest; Tran Huu Phuc Vinh (born in 2000) is one of the talented young professionals, participating in the competition for the first time in the world arena.
Currently, Viettel Cyber Security owns more than 400 hundred highly qualified personnel, including 30 highly qualified Vietnamese cybersecurity experts, recognized in international cybersecurity rankings and prestigious organizations in the world such as Microsoft, Bugcrowd, Google…
Pwn2Own is the world’s largest and most prestigious cyberattack competition sponsored by security firm TrendMicro and held annually by the Zero Day Initiative since 2007. Here, famous technology companies will bring their products. As a target, hackers will show their skills to attack and exploit software or equipment, through which manufacturers can immediately correct errors, improve security, help ensure information security for customers to use.
Pwn2Own 2022 held in Vancouver, Canada focused on finding vulnerabilities on major operating system platforms including: Windows 11, Microsoft Teams, Ubuntu Desktop, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Oracle VirtualBox, Tesla.. Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022 ends up to 17 successful exploits, awards $1,155,000 to white hat hackers and security researchers.
| Viettel Cyber Security Company (Viettel Cyber Security) is a unit under Viettel Military Industry and Telecommunications Group, performing the task of in-depth research, development, and consulting on network security solutions. Viettel Cyber Security is currently a leading partner in Vietnam in ensuring information security for key national infrastructures and organizations and businesses in diverse industries such as banking, energy, and electricity. The unit provides an ecosystem of diversified products and services with advanced technology, capable of flexibly deploying: 24/7 information security incident response and monitoring services. (SOC); Information Security Testing and Evaluation Service (Penttest); Information security solutions such as VCS-Threat Intelligence (Cybersecurity knowledge update solution), VCS-aJiant (Workstation anomaly monitoring solution), VCS-F2DR (Solution to detect and react to anomalies on workstations). financial fraud), VCS-CyCir (Cybersecurity response, automation and coordination solution)… |
Minh Ngoc
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