{"id":237172,"date":"2026-05-14T22:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/windows-11-and-microsoft-edge-hacked-at-pwn2own-berlin-2026"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T03:22:24","slug":"windows-11-and-microsoft-edge-hacked-at-pwn2own-berlin-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/windows-11-and-microsoft-edge-hacked-at-pwn2own-berlin-2026","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 and Microsoft Edge hacked at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ngMzEVrdVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the first day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, security researchers collected $523,000 in cash awards after exploiting 24 unique zero-days.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s highlight was Orange Tsai\u2019s attempt, who was awarded $175,000 in rewards after <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/thezdi.bsky.social\/post\/3mlslrhjrvc2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">chaining 4 logic bugs<\/a> to achieve a sandbox escape on Microsoft Edge.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 11 was also hacked three times by <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/thezdi.bsky.social\/post\/3mlsterlyhk2d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Angelboy and TwinkleStar03<\/a> (working with the DEVCORE Internship Program), <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/thezdi.bsky.social\/post\/3mlsyezpkyc2m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marcin Wi\u0105zowski<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/thezdi.bsky.social\/post\/3mltgpmo7ac2p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kentaro Kawane<\/a> of GMO Cybersecurity, each earning $30,000 in cash rewards for demonstrating new privilege escalation zero-days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, security researchers collected $523,000 in cash awards after exploiting 24 unique zero-days. Today\u2019s highlight was Orange Tsai\u2019s attempt, who was awarded $175,000 in rewards after chaining 4 logic bugs to achieve a sandbox escape on Microsoft Edge. Windows 11 was also hacked three times by Angelboy and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}