The first day of Pwn2own in Toronto began with the fact that the white hackers twice hacked the flagship Samsung Galaxy S22. The first to defend the smartphone was the Star Labs team – using 0 -day, they on the third attempt conducted an attack with an incorrect verification of the input, for which they received well -deserved $ 50,000 and 5 points of Master of PWN.
Then the Flagship Safety systems “opened” the Chim team, they were also given well -deserved awards – $ 25,000 (as the second finalists) and 5 Master of Pwn.
The day was not without exploits and for other devices – the participants found and used gaps in protecting printers and routers from Canon, Mikrotik, Netgear, TP -Link, Lexmark, Synology and HP.
The leaders of the first day PWN2own.
On Pwn2own, security researchers attack mobile phones, printers, routers, network storage facilities, smart speakers and other devices. In total, hackers have 66 goals, each of which is updated and has factory settings.
on this pwn2own the largest awards are assigned in the category of mobile phones: for hacking the Google Pixel 6 and Apple iPhone 13 smartphones, you can get up to $ 200,000. In addition, a bonus of $ 50,000 is provided for the development of an exploit, which is performed with nucleus privileges.
Due to the excitement of PWN2WN, Toronto will take 4 days – 26 teams and participants from all over the world took part in the competition.