Chinese hackers won $215 thousand for hacking the iPhone 6s and … – securitylab

a Team of Chinese professionals took home more than half the entire prize pool of the competition Pwn2Own.

a Team of researchers from China Keen Tencent Security Lab Team won a total of $ 215 thousand, which are organized by company Trend Micro the Mobile Pwn2Own competition in Tokyo. Note, the total prize Fund was $ 375тыс. Despite implemented in modern smartphones protection, experts managed to hack the Apple iPhone 6s and Google Nexus 6P.

In the case of iPhone 6s the researchers proekspluatirovat two vulnerabilities in iOS error memory usage after the release of the Visualizer and the error memory corruption in the sandbox. In the attack they managed to steal data stored on the device image and get a reward in the amount of $ 52 thousand Created by the researchers, the exploit works even on released this week, iOS 10.1.

In the course of a burglary Nexus 6P experts proekspluatirovat two vulnerabilities along with other errors and installed on the device, a malicious application without your knowledge. For successfully carried out the attack, they received $ 102 thousand