Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 Day 3: Participants earned nearly $1 million

On the third day of the Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 hacking competition, participants earned more than $250,000.

On the third day of the Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 hacking competition, participants earned more than $250,000 for demonstrating zero-day attacks against NAS devices, printers, smart speakers, routers, and smartphones.

In the two days, participants earned a total of $681,250 for 46 unique zero-day exploits.

The NCC Group EDG received the biggest award of the day for successfully executing a 2 exploit (command injection, type confusion) attack against the Ubiquiti and the Lexmark printer in the SOHO SMASHUP category. The team earned $50K and 10 Master of Pwn points.

Team Viettel successfully conducted their OS Command Injection attack against the WD My Cloud Pro Series PR4100 in the NAS category. The team earned $20K and 4 Master of Pwn points.

The STAR Labs team executed a SOHO SMASHUP attack against the Synology router and the Canon printer. The experts used exploits that were seen previously in the competition for this reason their only earned $25K and 5 Master of Pwn points.

Pentest Limited executed an Improper Input Validation attack against the Samsung Galaxy S22 in the Mobile Phone category. They earned $25K and 5 Master of Pwn points.

The results of Day Three are available here.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Pwn2Own Toronto 2022)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.