Aug 22, 2023 · Information Security

Ant Group’s Security Labs Win Pwnie Awards for Groundbreaking VM Escape Research

Ant Group’s Ant Security Tianqiong and Lightyear labs earned the prestigious Pwnie Awards’ Best Privilege Escalation prize for their VM escape research on VMware, highlighting the high‑impact nature of virtualization security breakthroughs and underscoring China’s growing prominence in global information security innovation.

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Ant Group’s Security Labs Win Pwnie Awards for Groundbreaking VM Escape Research

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Jan 18, 2021 · Information Security

Escaping VMware: The Story Behind a VM Escape Exploit and Anti‑VM Tricks

A vivid narrative follows two hackers who discover they are inside a VMware virtual machine, exploit a CVE‑2017‑4901 backdoor heap overflow to escape, only to realize they have entered another VM, while the article also explains virtualization detection techniques and anti‑VM methods.

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Escaping VMware: The Story Behind a VM Escape Exploit and Anti‑VM Tricks