The 2022 version of the well-known (or notorious, relying in your viewpoint) Pwn2Own competitors kicks off later right this moment in Vancouver, British Columbia.
(Truly, it’s a so-called “hybrid” occasion this 12 months, in order that entrants who can’t or don’t need to journey, whether or not for coronavirus or environmental causes, can take part remotely.)
Quite a few distributors have put ahead financial prizes for hacking numerous of their merchandise, with this 12 months’s potential targets being:
- Virtualisation: Oracle VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V Shopper.
- Browsers: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox.
- Enterprise Apps: Adobe Reader, Workplace 365 ProPlus.
- Servers: Microsoft RDP/RDS, Alternate, SharePoint, Samba.
- Endpoint OSes: Ubuntu Desktop, Home windows 11. (Elevation of Privilege solely)
- Enterprise Communications: Zoom, Microsoft Groups.
- Automotive: a variety of classes primarily based on Tesla 3 autos.
Intriguingly, the Servers and Enterprise Apps classes attracted precisely zero hackers every this 12 months.
Browsers and Virtualisation had been thought of equally unintersting, it appears, with simply one entrant every taking up Firefox and Safari, and a solitary hacker having a go at VirtualBox.
Home windows 11 and Ubuntu Linux attracted seven and 5 entries repesectively; 4 contestants will take a pop at Groups; and two can have a go at numerous points of the Tesla 3.
