Welcome to Pwn2Own Ireland 2025! We have some amazing spooky entries for this year’s contest, and a potential of up to $2,000,000 - including our largest ever single prize for a 0-click in WhatsApp for $1,000,000. As always, we began our contest with a random drawing to determine the order of attempts. If you missed it, you can watch the replay here.
The complete schedule for the contest is below (all times Irish Standard Time [UTC +1]).
Note: All times subject to change
Tuesday, October 21 – 0930
Bongeun Koo (@kiddo_pwn) and Evangelos Daravigkas (@freddo_1337) of Team DDOS targeting SOHO SMASHUP (QNAP Qhora-322 + QNAP TS-453E) in the SOHO category for $100,000 and 10 Master of Pwn Points.
Team Neodyme (@Neodyme) targeting HP DeskJet 2855e in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Nguyen Hoang Thach (@hi_im_d4rkn3ss), Tan Ze Jian, Lin Ze Wei, Cherie-Anne Lee, Gerrard Tai of STARLabs (@starlabs_sg) targeting Canon imageCLASS MF654Cdw in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
@Tek_7987 and @_Anyfun (both working at @Synacktiv) targeting Synology BeeStation Plus in the Network Attached Storage category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Tuesday, October 21 – 1130
Stephen Fewer (@stephenfewer) of Rapid7 (@rapid7) targeting Home Assistant Green in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
SHIMIZU Yutaro (@shift_crops) of GMO Cybersecurity by Ierae, Inc. targeting Canon imageCLASS MF654Cdw in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Sina Kheirkhah (@SinSinology) of Summoning Team (@SummoningTeam) targeting Synology DiskStation DS925+ in the Network Attached Storage category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Bongeun Koo (@kiddo_pwn) and Evangelos Daravigkas (@freddo_1337) of Team DDOS targeting Philips Hue Bridge in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Tuesday, October 21 – 1400
Team. PetoWorks (SungJun Park(@howrealsung), Wonbeen Im(@D0b6y), Dohyun Kim(@d0now_kim), Juyeong Lee(@ju_cheda)) targeting Canon imageCLASS MF654Cdw in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
McCaulay Hudson (@_mccaulay) of Summoning Team (@SummoningTeam) targeting Home Assistant Green in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Team ANHTUD targeting Philips Hue Bridge in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
dmdung (@_piers2) of STAR Labs SG Pte. Ltd targeting Sonos Era 300 in the Smart Home category for $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn Points.
You can watch the live stream of this attempt here.
Tuesday, October 21 – 1500
YingMuo (@YingMuo), HexRabbit (@h3xr4bb1t), LJP (@ljp_tw) from DEVCORE Research Team and nella17 (@nella17tw) from DEVCORE Intern Program targeting QNAP TS-453E in the Network Attached Storage category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Tuesday, October 21 – 1600
Emanuele Barbeno, Cyrill Bannwart, Yves Bieri, Lukasz D., Urs Mueller of Compass Security (@compasssecurity) targeting Home Assistant Green in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Hank Chen (@hank0438) of InnoEdge Labs targeting Philips Hue Bridge in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Team ANHTUD targeting Canon imageCLASS MF654Cdw in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Sina Kheirkhah (@SinSinology) of Summoning Team (@SummoningTeam) targeting Synology ActiveProtect Appliance DP320 in the Network Attached Storage category for $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn Points.
Wednesday, October 22 – 0930
Viettel Cyber Security targeting Home Assistant Green in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
PHP HOOLIGANS targeting Canon imageCLASS MF654Cdw in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Ho Xuan Ninh (@Xuanninh1412), Hoang Hai Long (@seadragnol) from Qrious Secure targeting Philips Hue Bridge in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Wednesday, October 22 – 1000
Sina Kheirkhah (@SinSinology) of Summoning Team (@SummoningTeam) targeting Synology BeeStation Plus in the Network Attached Storage category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Wednesday, October 22 – 1100
Chumy Tsai (github.com/Jimmy01240397) @ CyCraft Technology Intern targeting QNAP TS-453E in the Network Attached Storage category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Wednesday, October 22 – 1130
Team Neodyme (@Neodyme) targeting Home Assistant Green in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
TwinkleStar03 (@_twinklestar03) from DEVCORE Intern Program targeting Canon imageCLASS MF654Cdw in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Rafal Goryl (@voix44er) of PixiePoint Security targeting Philips Hue Bridge in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Wednesday, October 22 – 1200
Enrique Castillo (@hyprdude), McCaulay Hudson (@_mccaulay), Sina Kheirkhah (@SinSinology) of Summoning Team (@SummoningTeam) targeting Synology CC400W in the Surveillance Systems category for $30,000 and 3 Master of Pwn Points.
Wednesday, October 22 – 1300
Le Trong Phuc (chanze@VRC) and Cao Ngoc Quy (Chino Kafuu) of Verichains Cyber Force targeting Synology DiskStation DS925+ in the Network Attached Storage category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Wednesday, October 22 – 1400
Team ANHTUD targeting Lexmark CX532adwe in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Ken Gannon / 伊藤 剣 (@yogehi) of Mobile Hacking Lab, and Dimitrios Valsamaras (@Ch0pin) of Summoning Team (@SummoningTeam) targeting Samsung Galaxy S25 - Remote in the Mobile Phones category for $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn Points.
You can watch a live stream of this attempt here.
Mehdi & Matthieu @Synacktiv targeting Philips Hue Bridge in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Wednesday, October 22 – 1430
Team Neodyme (@Neodyme) targeting Amazon Smart Plug in the Smart Home category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Wednesday, October 22 – 1500
PHP HOOLIGANS targeting QNAP TS-453E in the Network Attached Storage category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Wednesday, October 22 – 1600
Team ANHTUD targeting Home Assistant Green in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Tri Dang (@trichimtrich) from Qrious Secure targeting Samsung Galaxy S25 - Remote in the Mobile Phones category for $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn Points.
You can watch a live stream of this attempt here.
Wednesday, October 22 – 1700
PHP HOOLIGANS targeting Philips Hue Bridge in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Wednesday, October 22 – 1800
Viettel Cyber Security targeting Canon imageCLASS MF654Cdw in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Thursday, October 23 – 0930
Chris Anastasio of Team Cluck targeting Lexmark CX532adwe in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Daniel Frederic and Julien Cohen-Scali of Fuzzinglabs (@fuzzinglabs) targeting QNAP TS-453E in the Network Attached Storage category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Xilokar (@[email protected]) targeting Philips Hue Bridge in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
CyCraft Technology targeting Amazon Smart Plug in the Smart Home category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Thursday, October 23 – 1030
Interrupt Labs targeting Samsung Galaxy S25 - Remote in the Mobile Phones category for $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn Points.
You can watch a live stream of this attempt here.
Thursday, October 23 – 1130
Viettel Cyber Security targeting Lexmark CX532adwe in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Sina Kheirkhah (@SinSinology) of Summoning Team (@SummoningTeam) targeting QNAP TS-453E in the Network Attached Storage category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Yannik Marchand (kinnay) targeting Philips Hue Bridge in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
David BERARD of @synacktiv targeting Ubiquiti AI Pro in the Surveillance Systems category for $30,000 and 3 Master of Pwn Points.
Thursday, October 23 – 1230
Team Neodyme (@Neodyme) targeting Canon imageCLASS MF654Cdw in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Thursday, October 23 – 1330
Interrupt Labs targeting Lexmark CX532adwe in the Printers category for $20,000 and 2 Master of Pwn Points.
Evan Grant (@stargravy) targeting QNAP TS-453E in the Network Attached Storage category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Thalium team from Thales Group (@thalium_team) targeting Philips Hue Bridge in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Thursday, October 23 – 1500
Eugene (@3ugen3) of Team Z3 targeting WhatsApp - Zero-Click Remote Code Execution in the Messaging category for $1,000,000 and 100 Master of Pwn Points.
You can watch a live stream of this attempt here.
Thursday, October 23 – 1530
Bongeun Koo (@kiddo_pwn) and Evangelos Daravigkas (@freddo_1337) of Team DDOS targeting QNAP TS-453E in the Network Attached Storage category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Viettel Cyber Security targeting Philips Hue Bridge in the Smart Home category for $40,000 and 4 Master of Pwn Points.
Thursday, October 23 – 1700
Frisk and Opcode from the Inequation Group ctf team targeting Meta Quest 3S - No Interaction LPE - Self Jailbreak in the Wearables category for $30,000 and 3 Master of Pwn Points.