Facebook Awards $40,000 Bounty for ImageTragick Hack

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A researcher claims to have received a $40,000 bounty from Facebook for finding a remote code execution vulnerability introduced by the ImageMagick image processing suite.

The said ImageMagick flaw, tracked as CVE-2016-3714 and dubbed “ImageTragick,” was disclosed in May 2016. The security hole had already been exploited in the wild and security firms soon started seeing an increasing number of attempts to leverage the flaw for reconnaissance and remote access.

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