Routers, NAS Devices, TVs Hacked at Pwn2Own Tokyo 2020

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the competition has been turned into a virtual event and Pwn2Own Tokyo is actually coordinated by Trend Micro’s ZDI from Toronto, Canada, with participants demonstrating their exploits remotely.

Organizers have offered significant prizes for exploits targeting a wide range of mobile and IoT devices, but participants have only focused on routers, NAS products and TVs.

In total, participants were awarded $136,000 for 23 unique vulnerabilities across six different devices. Impacted vendors have been given 120 days to release patches before details are made public by ZDI.

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