Google Pixel pwned in 60 seconds

The Google Pixel is done from one Chinese hackers while Apple Safari and classic Adobe Flash fell next to him in a hacking competition at the PwnFest held in Seoul on Friday.

The last offer of Mountain View device was violated by a white-hat of the Chinese company Qihoo 360, who used an unknown vulnerability to manage remote code execution by winning 120.000 dollars as a cash prize.Google Pixel

The exploit opens the Google Play store before Chrome runs and displays a webpage that reads: "Pwned By 360 Alpha Team".

Google is now trying to develop a patch that fixes vulnerability.

It should be noted that this is the second time in two weeks that the security of the Pixel has been breached. The first time (the είναι ακόμη unpatched) το exploit αναπτύχθηκε από την αντίπαλη ομάδα της Qihoo 360, την Keen της Tencent και έγινε δημόσια στην εκδήλωση Mobile Pwn2Own στην .

After hacking in Google Pixel they were in a different order:

Apple's Safari now fully updated on MacOS Sierra didn't seem too lucky. Also Chinese hackers Pangu a group known for releasing iOS jailbreak tools along with hacker JH hacked the program of Cupertino using a zero day that gave them root access. The hack took 20 seconds and won $80.000.

The Qihoo 360 team also infringed Adobe Flash (using a finger) using a zero-day discovery that was discovered ten years ago and a vulnerability of Win32k. They won another 120.000 dollars, and it took four seconds.

Another notable hack of PwnFest was in Microsoft Edge and a zero day exploit against the VMWare Workstation, which was released on Thursday.

Qihoo 360 hackers left with 520.000 dollars in prize money from the event.

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