Viettel experts win at world’s leading cyber-attack contest
VOV.VN - A team of Viettel Cyber Security, a member of Viettel Group, won the Pwn2Own Toronto 2023, the world’s leading contest in cyber-attacks.
According to the results, the Viettel team, which consists of 16 members, won the Master of Pwn Award with 30 points, ranking in first place in the leaderboard. They also received a cash prize of US$180,000.
Viettel has participated in the competition for six years and recorded several achievements. This comes after IT experts of Viettel won at Pwn2Own Tokyo 2020, Pwn2Own Vancouver 2021, and Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022.
The annual Pwn2Own represents the world's largest and most prestigious cyber-attack competition and is sponsored by security firm TrendMicro and has held by the Zero Day Initiative since 2007. Famous technology companies bring their products as targets for hackers to showcase their skills to attack and exploit the software or equipment, through which manufacturers can immediately correct errors and then improve security.
Viettel Cyber Security now has over 400 high-quality IT experts, many of whom have been recognised at international network security ranking and prestigious organisations such as Microsoft, Bugcrowd, and Google.
