The Mobile Pwn2Own is an event that brings together the greatest experts of security in mobile systems. Held annually, seeks to discover flaws and exploit bugs, remunerating those who find out.
The victims this year were two of the most well known smartphones on the market, the Nexus 6P and the iPhone 6S, and these time-consuming just 5 minutes, till you see your security compromised.
made this year was achieved by a single team, the chinese Tencent Keen Security Lab Team, which has managed to overcome the security barriers of these smartphones, and in them you have installed applications that then they could exploit the users ‘ data.
The Nexus 6P was the first to fall
The first victim, that only took 5 minutes to fall into the hands of these experts, was the phone of the Google. In this equipment the Tencent Keen Lab Team were able to install an application that was resident, and which does not required any interaction on the part of the users.
To achieve this explored two faults already known to the Android and then were able to explore other points fracis of this system. By this feat, the team managed to raise 102.500 dollars prize.
The iPhone 6S also could not resist
After the Tencent Keen Security Lab Team turned to the iPhone 6S. Also here it was possible to install a malicious application, which, however, did not survive a simple reboot of the phone, which thanks to a base configuration with the bore. Even having a minor impact, the award in this case was $ 60,000.
The iOS 10 was also compromised
By the end the target was iOS 10, that thanks to the two vulnerabilities allowed for the stolen images of an iPhone. The group has already revealed that the flaw exists also on the most recent iOS version, the 10.1, released this week. For this, the team raised more 52.500 dollars.
The whole Tencent Keen Security Lab Team took home 215.000 $ 375.000 dollars that were in the game.
Mobile Pwn2Own 2016
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