Pwn2Own Winners Announcement

Name: Pwn2Own Winners Announcement
Duration: 10 min
Description: Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, held concurrently with OffensiveCon for the first time, awarded $1,078,750 across three days of competition. StarLabs SG from Singapore won the Master of Pwn title with $320,000 and 35 points across six categories, defeating competitors who demonstrated zero-days in ESXi, VirtualBox, and a newly introduced AI category targeting NVIDIA and Redis tooling. ---

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OffensiveCon 2025 · Day 2 · Main

Pwn2Own Berlin 2025, held concurrently with OffensiveCon for the first time, awarded $1,078,750 across three days of competition. StarLabs SG from Singapore won the Master of Pwn title with $320,000 and 35 points across six categories, defeating competitors who demonstrated zero-days in ESXi, VirtualBox, and a newly introduced AI category targeting NVIDIA and Redis tooling. ---

AI review

This is a press release with a podium, not a research talk. ZDI announcing its own competition results at the conference it co-hosted is the definition of a conflict of interest dressed up as content. The technical highlights — ESXi exploits, a VirtualBox guest-to-kernel chain, the AI category — are real and interesting, but none of the actual research is presented here.

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