The Tianfu Cup 2019 International Cyber Security Competition took place in November, white hat hackers have earned $545,000 for working zero-day exploits. The hacker was able to take control of the host operating system in only 24 seconds. The flaw affects ESXi versions 6.0, 6.5 and 6.7 running on any platform, and the Horizon cloud desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) platform version 8.x. The company has already patched the issue for ESXi and it is currently working on a fix for Horizon DaaS.”]
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