The Weird, Big-Money World of Cybercrime Writing Contests

The competitions, which are held on Russian-language cybercrime forums, offer prize money of up to $80,000 for the winners...

Windows 10, iOS, Chrome, Firefox and Others Hacked at Tianfu Cup Competition

Multiple software products from Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Samsung were successfully pwned with previously unseen exploits in Tianfu Cup 2020, the third edition of the international cybersecurity contest held in the city of Chengdu, China. "Many mature and hard targets have bee...

0-Days Found in iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9, Xiaomi Mi6 Phones

At Pwn2Own 2018 mobile hacking competition held in Tokyo on November 13-14, white hat hackers once again demonstrated that even the fully patched smartphones running the latest version of software from popular smartphone manufacturers can be hacked. Three major flagship smartphones—iPhone X,...

Pwn2Own Trifecta: Galaxy S9, iPhone X and Xiaomi Mi6 Fall to Hackers

Three major mobile phone models – the Samsung Galaxy S9, iPhone X and the Xiaomi Mi6 – failed to survive the hacker onslaught at this year’s Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018. In all, 18 exploits, with some attacks chaining together as many as five exploits, were used to own the three phones and earn hacker tea...

Chain of 11 Bugs Takes Down Galaxy S8 at Mobile Pwn2Own

The mobile version of the annual Pwn2Own contest wrapped up today in Tokyo with an unprecedented attack chain leveling the Samsung Galaxy S8. Researchers from MWR Labs used 11 vulnerabilities across six different mobile applications to execute code on Samsung’s flagship device and exfiltrate data...

Hackers Take Down Reader, Safari, Edge, Ubuntu Linux at Pwn2Own 2017

Hackers took down Adobe Reader, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Ubuntu Linux over the course of 11 hours on Wednesday, the first day of Pwn2Own, the annual hacking competition held in tandem with the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. Contestants with the Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 were t...

Pwn2Own Day Two: Safari, Microsoft Edge Go Down Winner Announced

In the end, it was a nail-biter pitting Tencent Security Team Sniper KeenLab and PC Manager against JungHoon Lee lokihardt for the title of Master of Pwn for Pwn2Own 2016. After a tense last two minutes of the competition, it was Tencent Security Team Sniper and its successful code execution of a...

VUPEN Discloses Details of Patched Firefox Pwn2Own Zero-Days

Contestants at this year’s Pwn2Own contest made no bones about it: they were going after browsers and as it turned out, Firefox had the biggest target on its back. Mozilla’s popular browser was popped four times during the Canadian hacker festival accounting for a quarter of the $800,000-plus in...

Google Patches Four Pwn2Own Bugs in Chrome 33

Now that the dust has settled after the Pwn2Own contest, the browser manufacturers are beginning to roll out patches for the vulnerabilities exploited by contestants. Google on Monday released fixes for a number of bugs in Chrome discovered and exploited during Pwn2Own, releasing new versions of...

Cisco Grand Challenge to Fix Internet of Things Security

As seemingly every new gadget and electronic device is coming retrofitted with an Internet connection these days – appliances, cars and medical devices a few chief examples, the floodgates have opened ever wider for an alarming number of new attack vectors. The burgeoning evolution of “Internet o...

Google Patches 10 Chrome Flaws Ahead of Pwn2Own, Pwnium

Google raised the degree of difficulty for Pwn2Own and Pwnium hacking contestants by patching 10 vulnerabilities in its Web browser last night. The popular contests, which kick off tomorrow in Vancouver at the CanSecWest Conference, feature millions in prize money for researchers who can crack no...

Pwn2Own, Pwnium Attract Dollars and 0-Days by the Bushel

The new year is barely two months old and it’s already been a brutal one for the disclosure of new vulnerabilities. Java, Adobe Reader, Flash, Google Chrome and a number of other widely deployed applications have all been hit with a slew of serious bugs in just the last few weeks. And that’s like...