Researchers Discover Over 70 Zero-Day Bugs at Pwn2Own Ireland

The popular hacking competition set up camp in Trend Micro’s Cork office for the first time last week, with competitors discovering and demonstrating exploits for over 70 zero-day vulnerabilities. These will now be responsibly disclosed to the relevant vendors for patching

A growing number of manufacturers are getting involved in the competition in order to place their products in front of a highly motivated bunch of ethical hackers.

For the first time, Pwn2Own welcomed Meta as a sponsor this year, although no teams were able to find a workable exploit for WhatsApp in a new Messenger App category of the competition. It is zero-click vulnerabilities like this that commercial spyware makers are notorious for finding and exploiting for their customers.

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