Hackers hacked iPhone 11 Pro and iOS 14 in just 10 seconds and got $ 180 thousand for it

Recently, the Tianfu Cup, the largest and most prestigious hacker competition, ended in the Chinese city of Chengdu.

in the country. This is the so-called analogue of Pwn2Own, a computer hacking competition that is held annually at the CanSecWest security conference.

Competition conditions

15 teams took part in the competition.Their main goal is to exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities and, with their help, hack a specific application or device. Each team was given three attempts of 5 minutes each to hack a specific target.

If the attack is successful, the hackers receive points, which are then turned into money. The Tianfu Cup prize pool was $1,210,000.


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What got hacked

The most interesting thing was that during the competition we managedhack the iOS 14 operating system on the iPhone 11 Pro smartphone, and it took only 10 seconds. As a result, the teams that successfully attacked iOS 14 received a total of $180 thousand.

In addition, we managed to compromise:

  • Samsung Galaxy S20
  • Windows 10 2004 (April 2020)
  • Ubuntu
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Adobe PDF Reader
  • Docker (Community Edition)
  • VMWare EXSi (hypervisor)
  • QEMU (emulator and virtualizer)
  • firmware for TP-Link and ASUS routers

Apple, Google and other companies were then notified of the vulnerabilities found so they could fix the errors.


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According to the results of the competition, she won by a large margina team from the Chinese technology giant Qihoo 360 (360 Enterprise Security and Government and (ESG) Vulnerability Research Institute, aka Team 360Vulcan). They took away most of the prize fund - $744,500. Second place went to experts from Anti-Financial Light-Year Security ($258,000), and third place and $99,500 went to a private cybersecurity researcher.


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