Recently a program named Pwn2Own started in Toronto, whose last day is today. This event is basically a hacking competition, in which popular software and devices are hacked by taking advantage of zero-day vulnerabilities and awards are won. In this event, security experts have hacked Samsung Galaxy S23 and iPhone 13 Pro. Both the phones were hacked on the very first day of the start of the event. A zero-day is a vulnerability in a computer system that was previously unknown to its developers or anyone capable of mitigating it.
Zero Day Initiative blog According to, Star Labs SG Samsung Galaxy S23 Was able to exploit a permissible list of allowed inputs against. For this zero-day discovery and exposure, he won $25,000 (approximately Rs 20.80 lakh) and 5 Master of PWN points.
A grand prize of $50,000 (approximately Rs 41.60 lakh) and 5 Master of PWN points was awarded to Pentest Limited for performing improper input validation on the Galaxy S23.
These newly discovered vulnerabilities will be fixed with future security patches and until then this hacking method will be kept secret.
Security researchers Xiaomi 13 Pro I have also found zero-day. Team Vitale earned $40,000 for executing a single-bug attack against the Xiaomi 13 Pro, and NCC Group earned $20,000 for performing a zero-day attack on the same device.