Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 Closes With $1.3 Million in Zero-Day Payouts
The highly anticipated Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 hacking competition concluded on 16 May 2026, following three days of intense activity at the OffensiveCon conference, and we have all the results. The event saw massive financial payouts, with researchers receiving around $1,298,250 in total for live demos of 47 unique zero-day vulnerabilities.
The Top Three Teams
A Taiwanese research group, DEVCORE, was awarded the Master of Pwn title, receiving 50.5 points and $505,000 in cash rewards, while STARLabs SG secured second place with 25 points ($242,500), followed by Out Of Bounds in third with 12.75 points ($95,750).
The competition’s largest payout went to the DEVCORE Research Team’s Cheng-Da Tsai, aka Orange Tsai, who received $200,000 for chaining three different vulnerabilities to achieve remote code execution (RCE) with SYSTEM privileges on Microsoft Exchange. On the event’s opening day, Tsai had earned $175,000 for a Microsoft Edge sandbox escape that chained four logic...
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