On the first day of Pwn2Own Toronto, the STAR Labs team and a contestant known as Chim demoed two other zero-day exploits as part of successful improper input validation attacks against the Galaxy S22. In all three cases, according to the contest rules, the devices ran the latest version of the Android operating system with all available updates installed.
The second day of Pwn2Own Toronto wrapped up with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative awarding $281,500 for 17 unique bugs across multiple categories. This brings the first two days of Pwn2Own total to $681,250 awarded for 46 unique zero-days, as ZDI’s Head of Threat Awareness Dustin Childs revealed. The full schedule for Pwn2Own Toronto 2022’s second day and the results for each challenge are available here. You can also find the complete schedule of the competition here.
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