The Tencent Keen Security Lab Team from China has won an aggregate prize cash of $215,000 in the 2016 Mobile Pwn2Own challenge keep running by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) in Tokyo, Japan.
In spite of the execution of high-efforts to establish safety in current gadgets, the acclaimed Chinese programmers team has effectively hacked both Apple's iPhone 6S and in addition Google's Nexus 6P telephones.
Hacking iPhone 6S
For hacking Apple's iPhone 6S, Keen Lab misused two iOS vulnerabilities – an utilization without after bug in the renderer and a memory debasement imperfection in the sandbox – and stole pictures from the gadget, for which the group was granted $52,500.
Hacking Google's Nexus 6P
For hacking the Nexus 6P, the Keen Lab Team utilized a mix of two vulnerabilities and different shortcomings in Android and figured out how to introduce a rebel application on the Google Nexus 6P telephone without client association.
The ZDI granted them an incredible $102,500 for the Nexus 6P hack.
Thus, of the aggregate potential payout of $375,000 from the Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, the Keen Lab Team specialists brought home $215,000.
0 comments:
Post a Comment