By The Hacker News
Publication Date: 2026-10-09 08:26:00
Three research teams broke into Google’s Pixel 10 on October 8 at Pwn2Own Ireland, a hacking contest in Cork whose rules require every target to be fully patched. The contest pays researchers to show working exploits and passes the flaws to the vendors. One of the three Pixel exploits earned Ikotas Labs $300,000, the contest’s top prize, and made the team the overall winner.
Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), which runs Pwn2Own, posted the results but had not published how the three exploits work as of October 9. The wins were demonstrations on contest phones, and at least two of the three used a bug that was already known before the attempt.
The contest rules require each entry to use bugs that are not already known to the vendor or to the organizer. An entry that uses an already-known bug, which ZDI calls a collision, can still be accepted at a lower prize.
The three Pixel 10 wins, in the order they…
