Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance?

Turns out they’re illegal.

https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/

#TCF #consent #data #privacy #EU #GDPR #BigTech #maliciousCompliance #SiliconValley #adtech #technoFascism

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New podcast is now live! This podcast episode goes over the career of pinkflawd, how she got into malware reversing, advice on being in the industry, how to deal with failures, and some exciting content about some interesting piece of malware she has analyzed !

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2400544/episodes/17145918-pinkflawd-malware-reverse-engineering

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ln1X3zd6LqM3sm6rTI527?si=eT-ERmW1Q-GN7fLaoniMSg

Thank you so much to @pinkflawd for coming on and talking about her story. Hope you enjoy 🤩

Success! Hyeonjin Choi of Out Of Bounds targeting Microsoft Windows 11 wasted absolutely no time at all to successfully demonstrate his Local Escalation on #Windows11 - he is off in the disclosure room now! #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin

After a dramatic pause in getting things setup Billy and Ramdhan of STAR Labs preformed a Docker Desktop escape to pop calc - and they are also now off to the disclosure room - good luck! #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin

We have another collision - Viettel Cyber Security targeting NVIDIA Triton Inference Server successfully demonstrated their exploit - however it was known to the vendor, but not yet patched. They still earn $15,000 and 1.5 Master of Pwn Points #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin

As expected, in his first #Pwn2Own attempt, Marcin Wiązowski showed of his Windows 11 privilege escalation. He went from a standard user SYSTEM in the blink of an eye. He's off to the disclosure room with his white paper of knowledge. #P2OBerlin

Sweet! Hyunwoo Kim (@V4bel) and Wongi Lee (@_qwerty_po) of Theori were able to escalate to root on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They head off to the disclosure room to cover the details of their exploit.

Coinbase filed an 8K with the SEC for a breach. They believe multiple insiders have sold customer information to a threat actor who is now extorting them.

It looks like a very significant breach as it includes customers passport scans.

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000167978825000094/coin-20250514.htm

#threatintel

With our first confirmation, our results blog is now live. We'll be updating this blog throughout the day with the latest results. https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2025/5/15/pwn2own-berlin-2025-day-one-results

We have a bug collision. Although Sina Kheirkhah (@SinSinology) of Summoning Team (@SummoningTeam) successfully demonstrated his exploit of #NVIDIA Triton, the bug he used was known by the vendor (but not patched). He still earns $15K and 1.5 Master of Pwn points.

Confirmed! Chen Le Qi of STARLabs SG combined a UAF and an integer overflow to escalate to SYSTEM on #Windows 11. He earns $30,000 and 3 Master of Pwn points. #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin

Project: openssl-static-gcc-dwarf 3.4.0
File: openssl
Address: 0043acc0

rsautl_main

SVG:
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Sleep deprivation is a form of torture.

Unless you are a parent, in which case it is a form of "children are a blessing, you wanted this, you're on your own, suck it up, good luck."

#parenting

Time to update microcode on your Intel processors (gen >9)...

New speculative prediction bug lets you capture /etc/shadow with 99% reliability. They didn't make anything like it work on AMD or ARM... yet...

https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/branch-privilege-injection/

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-01247.html

https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/releases/tag/microcode-20250512

Me and the homies are dropping browser exploits on the red team engagement 😎. Find out how to bypass WDAC + execute native shellcode using this one weird trick -- exploiting the V8 engine of a vulnerable trusted application.

https://www.ibm.com/think/x-force/operationalizing-browser-exploits-to-bypass-wdac

Holy wow, XSS to RCE in Restricted Mode in VSCode. What a find!

https://starlabs.sg/blog/2025/05-breaking-out-of-restricted-mode-xss-to-rce-in-visual-studio-code/

Gear is still missing... #P2OBerlin

The schedule for #Pwn2Own Berlin is now live! We have three days of exploitation set - including our first AI entries. https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2025/5/14/pwn2own-berlin-the-full-schedule #P2OBerlin