Hackers exploit 29 zero-days on second day of Pwn2Own Automotive
Hackers collect $439,250 after exploiting 29 zero-day vulnerabilities on the second day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2026. [...]
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Hackers collect $439,250 after exploiting 29 zero-day vulnerabilities on the second day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2026. [...]
Security researchers collected $792,750 in cash after exploiting 56 unique zero-day vulnerabilities during the second day of the Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 hacking competition. [...]
On the first day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2025, security researchers exploited 34 unique zero-days and collected $522,500 in cash awards. [...]
Trend™ Research and ZDI Threat Hunters have identified a large-scale RondoDox botnet campaign exploiting over 50 vulnerabilities across more than 30 vendors, including flaws first seen in Pwn2Own contests.
The Pwn2Own competition is offering a $1m reward to any teams able to unearth a WhatsApp code execution exploit
The Zero Day Initiative is offering a $1 million reward to security researchers who will demonstrate a zero-click WhatsApp exploit at its upcoming Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 hacking contest. [...]
During the second day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, competitors earned $435,000 after exploiting zero-day bugs in multiple products, including Microsoft SharePoint, VMware ESXi, Oracle VirtualBox, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Mozilla Firefox. [...]
On the first day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, security researchers were awarded $260,000 after successfully demonstrating zero-day exploits for Windows 11, Red Hat Linux, Docker Desktop, and Oracle VirtualBox. [...]
On the first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025, security researchers exploited 16 unique zero-days and collected $382,750 in cash awards. [...]
On the first day of Pwn2Own Ireland, participants demonstrated 52 zero-day vulnerabilities across a range of devices, earning a total of $486,250 in cash prizes. [...]
A number of serious Windows bugs still haven't made their way into criminal circles, but that won't remain the case forever — and time is running short before ZDI releases exploit details.
Plus: Google Chrome, Apple bugs also exploited in the wild Happy May Patch Tuesday. We've got a lot of vendors joining this month's patchapalooza, which includes a handful of bugs that have been exploited — either in the wild or at Pwn2Own — and now fixed by Microsoft, Apple, Google and VMware.…
On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024, contestants demoed Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux zero-day vulnerabilities and exploit chains to win $732,500 and a Tesla Model 3 car. [...]
Security researchers hacked a Tesla Modem and collected awards of $722,500 on the first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 for three bug collisions and 24 unique zero-day exploits. [...]
The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition has ended with security researchers earning $1,038,500 for 58 zero-day exploits (and multiple bug collisions) targeting consumer products between October 24 and October 27. [...]
VMware has released security updates to address zero-day vulnerabilities that could be chained to gain code execution systems running unpatched versions of the company's Workstation and Fusion software hypervisors. [...]
On the third day of the Pwn2Own hacking contest, security researchers were awarded $185,000 after demonstrating 5 zero-day exploits targeting Windows 11, Ubuntu Desktop, and the VMware Workstation virtualization software. [...]
On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023, security researchers successfully demoed Tesla Model 3, Windows 11, and macOS zero-day exploits and exploit chains to win $375,000 and a Tesla Model 3. [...]
Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 has ended with competitors earning $989,750 for 63 zero-day exploits (and multiple bug collisions) targeting consumer products between December 6th and December 9th. [...]
On the third and last day of the 2022 Pwn2Own Vancouver hacking contest, security researchers successfully hacked Microsoft's Windows 11 operating system three more times using zero-day exploits. [...]