[Software] Windows 10, iOS, Chrome, hacked - but for a good cause

[Hossam Taibi]

The third edition of China's largest and most prestigious hacking competition has seen software such as Windows 10 and devices like the Samsung Galaxy S20 hacked using new never-before-seen exploits.

 

The Tianfu Cup is held in the city of Chengdu in central China and each year, teams of hackers work together to hack devices and software in a limited amount of time.

 

This year fifteen teams of Chinese hackers participated in the event and contestants were given three five-minute attempts to hack into a selected target using an original exploit.

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As a result of the third edition of the Tianfu Cup, teams of hackers were able to successfully exploit iOS 14 running on an iPhone 11 Pro, the Samsung Galaxy S20, Windows 10 v2004, Ubuntu, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Adobe PDF Reader, Docker (Community Edition), VMWare EXSi (hypervisor), QEMU (emulator & virtualizer) and TP-Link and Asus router firmware.