Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 has ended with safety researchers incomes $1,047,000 after exploiting 76 zero-day vulnerabilities between January 21 and January 23.
The Pwn2Own Automotive hacking competitors focuses on automotive applied sciences and passed off this week in Tokyo, Japan, throughout the Automotive World auto convention.
All through the competition, the hackers focused absolutely patched in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) methods, electrical automobile (EV) chargers, and automobile working methods (e.g., Automotive Grade Linux).
Earlier than TrendMicro’s Zero Day Initiative publicly discloses them, distributors have 90 days to develop and launch safety fixes for zero-days that have been exploited and reported throughout the Pwn2Own contest.
Group Fuzzware.io received the Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 contest after taking residence $215,000 in money, adopted by Group DDOS with $100,750 and Synactiv with $85,000.
​In complete, Fuzzware.io earned $118,00 after hacking an Alpitronic HYC50 Charging Station, an Autel charger, and a Kenwood DNR1007XR navigation receiver on the primary day.
They have been additionally awarded one other $95,000 for demonstrating a number of zero-days within the Phoenix Contact CHARX SEC-3150 charging controller, the ChargePoint Residence Flex EV charger, and the Grizzl-E Sensible 40A EV charging station on the second day, and a further $2,500 after a bug collision whereas trying to root an Alpine iLX-F511 multimedia receiver on the final day of the competition.
Synacktiv Group additionally collected $35,000 after chaining an out‑of‑bounds write flaw and an info leak to hack the Tesla Infotainment System by way of a USB-based assault on the primary day of Pwn2Own.
The total schedule for the third day and the outcomes for every problem can be found right here, whereas the whole schedule for Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 is obtainable right here.
Throughout the Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 contest, hackers collected one other $1,323,750 after demoing 49 zero-day bugs and hacking a Tesla automobile twice. Final yr, safety researchers earned one other $886,250 after exploiting 49 zero-days at Pwn2Own Automotive 2025.
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