Vietnamese “Hacker” is rewarded with $ 3133.7 Google thanks to great merit: The odd amount of money turns out to be an interesting implication.

Half a year ago, information about three Vietnamese hackers honored by Facebook on the list of Top 100 “Good Hackers” made netizens more or less controversial. Recently, a new talent in home technology has been resurfaced at Google’s Hall of Fame. This is a ranking of experts who have contributed greatly in finding and detecting security vulnerabilities of the search service tycoon, promptly informing them to fix and consolidate loopholes for all users.

The main character of this story is Ngoc Chanh (also known as the nickname Killer) – a member of the J2TEAM community, currently a full-time programmer at a software company in Hanoi. The article shared about his entire process of finding and finding errors on Facebook Group J2TEAM Community immediately attracted a great deal of attention with nearly 4,000 Likes. Specifically, he reported and successfully demonstrated a security bug in Google Translate, which is used by more than 500 million users every day.

Ngoc Chanh was honored on Google’s Hall of Fame website.

Like many major brands of technology / Internet products and services, Google also has a bounty program for its bugs to reward prominent experts and white hat hackers with great merits. After being officially honored by Google, Ngoc Chanh has received an exact reward of 3133.7 USD . If you are wondering why the number is so odd and difficult to look at, this is actually a fun compliment from Google, with stylized characters “teencode”: 31337 = eleet, homophone for “elite” (elite). This must be an implicit praise from Google for the effort and talent of Ngoc Chanh.

The flaw that Ngoc Chanh discovered was XSS (Cross-Site Scripting), one of the most dangerous and popular and cannot be underestimated. If exploited before fixing errors, bad guys can take advantage of inserting malicious code into the website. Initially, Google was still confused in the review process, so it was not considered a security error, but Chanh still patiently proved his foundation to be true through clearer evidences, eventually being recognized to contribute in a way. justifiable.

Notice of reward of $ 3133.7 is sent by Google to Ngoc Chanh.

Surprisingly, one thing special in this flaw was discovered by Chanh is that you need to be “Vietnamese”. According to him, “This error only appears when you select the main language is Vietnamese. I tried changing the main language to another language but it is not feasible, because the HTML tags are coded and filtered out.”

In addition to Ngoc Chanh, another member of J2TEAM Viet Thao this year also appeared on Facebook’s honors. Before Google, Ngoc Chanh and Manh Tuan (team leader) also discovered and sent a successful report on a security hole on Udemy – the world’s leading online learning platform. Currently, J2TEAM is widely known in the Vietnamese Facebook community with the product J2TEAM Security, an extension for the Chrome browser that currently has more than 200,000 users.