Zero-Days in the Age of AI: Behind the Scenes of ZeroDay.cloud 2025

During the two-day zeroday.cloud competition hosted by Wiz Research with major cloud partners, researchers demonstrated 11 critical zero-days across core cloud and AI infrastructure — including RCEs in Redis, PostgreSQL, MariaDB and Grafana, plus a Linux kernel container escape — earning $320,000 in rewards; the event highlights how AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery for both defenders and attackers, while demonstrations were performed under time constraints and with coordination from maintainers and cloud partners.