Yes, the Google's latest Pixel smartphone has been hacked past times a squad white-hat hackers from Qihoo 360, too at the 2016 PwnFest hacking contest inwards Seoul.
The Qihoo 360 squad demonstrated a proof-of-concept exploit that used a zero-day vulnerability inwards fellowship to accomplish remote code execution (RCE) on the target smartphone.
The exploit as well as thus launched the Google Play Store on the Pixel smartphone earlier opening Google Chrome as well as displaying a spider web page that read "Pwned By 360 Alpha Team," the Reg media reports.
Qihoo 360 won $120,000 cash prize for hacking the Pixel.
Besides the Google Pixel, Microsoft Edge running nether Windows x was also hacked inwards PwnFest hacking competition.
The Qihoo 360 squad also hacked Adobe Flash amongst a combination of a decade-old, use-after-free zero-day vulnerability as well as a win32k core flaw to win a $120k prize.
Along amongst hacker JH, Chinese iPhone jailbreak squad Pangu, which issue million-dollar iOS jailbreaks for free, discovered a Safari exploit that used a privilege escalation zero-day flaw, giving them origin access on Apple's updated Safari browser running on MacOS Sierra inwards only xx seconds.
The exploit earned the squad $80,000.
Hackers Compromised Microsoft Edge is only eighteen seconds
The safety experts gained SYSTEM-level remote code execution on Edge, although they denied disclosing details of the vulnerability until the affected vendors come upward amongst a fix. Both researchers earned $140,000 for their Edge exploit.
Another Qihoo hacker squad as well as Lee both, for the offset time, remotely compromised VMware Workstation 12.5.1 without user interaction, bagging $150,000 for their exploits.
Details of all the exploits volition move reported to the respected companies thus that they tin spell their software earlier black-hat hackers utilisation them for malicious purposes.
The Qihoo 360 squad of hackers walked away amongst a full prize coin of $520,000.
