ICS Exploits Earn Hackers $400,000 at Pwn2Own Miami Hacking Contest

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Pwn2Own Miami 2022 has come to an end, and Zero Day Initiative says the competitors earned $400,000 for 26 zero-day exploits (and multiple vulnerability collisions) targeting ICS and SCADA products exhibited during the contest held last week. 

The contest, organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), saw 11 participants targeting multiple production categories: Control Server, OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) Server, Data Gateway, and Human Machine Interface (HMI). 

“Thanks again to all of the competitors who participated. We couldn’t have a contest without them,” Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) said today. “Thanks also to the participating vendors for their cooperation and for providing fixes for the bugs disclosed throughout the contest.”

After the safety vulnerabilities abused throughout Pwn2Own are reported, distributors are given 120 days to launch patches till ZDI publicly discloses them. 

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