White hat hackers earned over $1M and a Tesla Model 3 in the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 hackathon.
The event lasted three days.
- The white hat hackers exploited security flaws in systems such as:
- Tesla,
- Windows 11,
- Microsoft Teams,
- Microsoft SharePoint,
- macOS,
- Ubuntu Desktop,
- VMware Workstation,
- Oracle VirtualBox, etc.
- French cybersecurity company Team Synacktiv won the competition, earning $530,000 and the Model 3.
- They won the latter by exposing a security flaw that could be used to hack Tesla vehicles.
- The company reportedly managed to breach Tesla in less than two minutes.
- Vendors are given 90 days to release security fixes for all zero-day vulnerabilities tracked and reported during Pwn2Ow before they are publicly disclosed.
- Other winners in the competition include STAR Labs Team, which earned $195,000 for finding security flaws in Microsoft SharePoint, VMWare Workstation, and Ubuntu Desktop.
- Team Viettel won $115,000 for finding flaws in Microsoft Teams and Oracle VirtualBox.
