<ul><li>Participants in Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 earned $435,000 by demonstrating zero-day exploits in products like SharePoint, ESXi, VirtualBox, RHEL, and Firefox.</li><li>The total earnings for the competition reached $695,000 after the first day awarded $260,000 for 20 unique zero-days.</li><li>Nguyen Hoang Thach of STARLabs SG used an integer overflow to hack VMware ESXi, earning $150,000 and 15 Master of Pwn points.</li><li>Other significant earnings include Dinh Ho Anh Khoa exploiting Microsoft SharePoint for $100,000 and Edouard Bochin and Tao Yan exploiting Mozilla Firefox for $50,000.</li></ul>

Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 Day Two: researcher earned 150K hacking VMware ESXi

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