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Google Pixel 10 Exploits Earned Hackers $560,000 at Pwn2Own
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Google Pixel 10 Exploits Earned Hackers $560,000 at Pwn2Own

Coverage of Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 results: contestants earned over $1.2 million total, with Google Pixel 10 exploits alone paying out $560,000 across three teams. Ikotas Labs won the full $300,000 Pixel payout by chaining multiple bugs for remote compromise, while Tim Becker/Yves Bieri and Dimitrios Valsamaras/Ken Gannon earned reduced payouts for exploits involving previously known flaws. Other notable rewards went for hacks of the Samsung Galaxy S26, Sonos Era 300 speaker, Philips Hue Bridge Pro, Home Assistant Green hub, Lexmark/Brother/Canon printers, Garmin Index BPM, and AI infrastructure including Oracle Autonomous AI Database, OpenAI Codex, Nvidia Dynamo, and LiteLLM.

TL;DR Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 paid out $1.2M+ in exploit bounties, with Google Pixel 10 hacks earning $560,000 across three teams.

Organisations named here

  • Dimitrios Valsamaras
  • Ken Gannon
  • Pwn2Own Ireland 2026
  • Tim Becker
  • Yves Bieri

Technologies named here

  • Google Pixel 10
  • Samsung Galaxy S25
  • Samsung Bixby
  • Samsung Galaxy S26
  • Sonos Era 300
  • Oracle Autonomous AI Database
  • OpenAI Codex
  • Nvidia Dynamo
  • LiteLLM
  • Philips Hue Bridge Pro
  • Home Assistant Green
  • Lexmark printers
  • Brother printers
  • Garmin Index BPM
  • Chroma
  • Canon imageFORCE 1643F
  • iPhone 17
  • WhatsApp
  • Android

Techniques named here

  • Bug chaining
  • Zero-day combined with known vulnerability chaining

Threat actors named here

  • Ikotas Labs
  • Tim Becker and Yves Bieri
  • Dimitrios Valsamaras and Ken Gannon