Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 Day 4: $989K awarded for 63 unique zero-days

The Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 is ended, and the participants earned a total of $989,750 for 63 unique zero-day exploits.

The Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 hacking competition has ended and these are the final numbers for the event:

$989,750 awarded
63 unique 0-days
66 entries
36 different teams representing 14+ countries

DEVCORE and @orange_8361 won Master of Pwn for Toronto 2022.

“And we are finished! All of the Day Four results are below. We awarded another $55,000 today bringing our contest total to $989,750. Over the contest, we purchased 63 unique zero days. The Master of Pwn title came down to the wire, but the team from DEVCORE claimed their second title with winnings of $142,500 and 18.5 points.” reads the post published by ZDI. “Team Viettel and the NCC group were close behind with 16.5 and 15.5 points respectively. Congratulations to all the contestants and Pwn2Own winners.”

On the fourth day of the competition, the researcher Chris Anastasio demonstrated a heap-based buffer overflow against the Lexmark printer. He earned $10,000 and 1 Master of Pwn point.

The ANHTUD Information Security Department used another heap-based overflow to exploit the Canon printer. It earned $10K.

The namnp team hacked a Canon printer showing a surprised Pikachu on the display of the device. The team earned $10,000 and 1 Master of Pwn point.

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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”.