White hackers hacked Samsung Galaxy S22 in 55 seconds

The annual Pwn2Own event, organized by the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), was held in Toronto, Canada. It is essentially a research conference where hackers can demonstrate their ability to hack commercial products. Subsequently, all the data is passed on to the manufacturers so that they can «patch the holes».

As part of Pwn2Own, hackers discovered various vulnerabilities in network attached storage (NAS) devices from HP, NETGEAR, Synology, Sonos, TP-Link, Canon, Lexmark, and Western Digital, but they were the fastest to crack the Samsung Galaxy S22.

On the first day of Pwn2Own, hacker teams STAR Labs and Chim found two security holes in the Galaxy S22 that allowed them to gain full access to the phone. On the second day of the event, hackers from the Pentest Limited group hacked the phone again, and on the third day, the Galaxy S22 was hacked for the fourth time, and in record time — in just 55 seconds.

It is important to note that all devices provided for hacking as part of Pwn2Own have all the latest updates installed — this is one of the requirements of the competition.