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Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 - Day One Results
Welcome to Day One of Pwn2Own Ireland 2026! Today, 21 entries took the Pwn2Own stage to target multiple categories - including multiple Samsung attempts and our first Pixel entry.
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Here are the results of Day One:
FAILURE - Unfortunately, Ikotas Labs, Inc. (@ikotas00) could not get their exploit of the Brother MFC-L8970CDWworking within the time allotted.
Ikotas Labs, Inc. (@ikotas00) targeting the Brother printer
SUCCESS - @_McCaulay combined an OOB Write and a format string(!) bug to exploit the #Sonos Era 300. He earns $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn points.
McCaulay Hudson displays his successful exploit
SUCCESS - Taisic Yun (@taisic_) of Xint (@xint_official) used an Improper Input Validation bug along with code injection to get his reverse shell on LiteLLM. He earned $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn points.
Xint focuses on his LiteLLM exploit
