Hack that escapes VM by exploiting Edge browser fetches $105,000 at Pwn2Own

Enlarge (credit: Heather Katsoulis) Contestants at this year’s Pwn2Own hacking competition in Vancouver just pulled off an unusually impressive feat: They compromised Microsoft’s heavily fortified Edge browser in a way that escapes a VMware virtual machine it runs in. The hack fetched a prize of $ 105,000, the highest awarded so far over the past […]