The bi-annual Pwn2Own elite hacking event held in Toronto has come to an end after four days in which 63 zero-day vulnerabilities were successfully exploited. Some 26 hacking teams and individual hackers took part in the event, operated by Trend Micro’s Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI). The challenge looks simple enough: exploit a previously unknown vulnerability against one of the devices entered into the competition. However, exploiting such a zero-day against the clock is anything but, as evidenced by many failures across the four days of competitive hacking.
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63 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited across four days
As already reported, Samsung was among the first big names to fall on day one of Pwn2Own Toronto 2022. The Samsung Galaxy S22 was successfully hacked not once, but twice. The same model smartphone, running the latest Android OS and with all security patches in place, was also hacked again on days two and three. Samsung told Forbes that it is working on releasing a security patch this month.
Across the four days of Pwn2Own Toronto 2022, printers from the likes of Canon, HP, and Lexmark, fell time and time again to the zero-day attacks from various hacking teams. But it wasn’t just smartphones and printers that were being targeted, network-attached storage devices from Western Digital, and routers from Netgear, Synology, and TP-Link. The Sonos One smart speaker was also hacked.
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None of the zero-days are sold or redistributed by ZDI, instead, the exploited devi ..
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