The Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 hacking competitors organized by Pattern Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) is happening lately in Berlin, Germany, and on the primary day individuals earned a complete of $260,000.
Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 introduces AI hacking and the primary ever winner on this class is Sina Kheirkhah of Summoning Workforce, who earned $20,000 for an exploit concentrating on the Chroma open supply AI software database.
The identical researcher earned a further $15,000 for a distinct exploit in the identical class. He efficiently hacked an NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, nevertheless it has been marked as a ‘collision’ as a result of the seller had identified concerning the bug however had but to patch it.
Viettel Cyber Safety earned the identical quantity for one more identified NVIDIA Triton vulnerability that had but to be patched by the tech large.
The very best single reward was earned on the primary day by the Star Labs crew, which obtained $60,000 for an exploit chain that concerned a Linux kernel vulnerability to carry out a Docker Desktop escape and finally execute code on the underlying working system.
Workforce Jail Break obtained $40,000 for escaping Oracle VirtualBox and executing code on the underlying OS.
Others earned between $15,000 and $30,000 for Pink Hat and Home windows 11 exploits.
Over the subsequent two days, Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 individuals will try and show hacks towards NVIDIA Triton Inference Server and Container Toolkit, Microsoft SharePoint, VMware ESXi and Workstation, Firefox, Redis, VirtualBox, Pink Hat, and Home windows 11.Commercial. Scroll to proceed studying.
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