In the contest run by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, Tokyo, Japan, for hacking Mobile Pwn2Own, Tencent Keen Security Lab Team from China has won a total prize money of $215,000.
High security measures were put into effect to devices for both Google's Nexus 6P phones and Apple's iPhone 6S, but still they fell victim to the Chinese hackers.
Google's Nexus 6P: For hacking the Nexus 6P, the Keen Lab Team used a combination of two vulnerabilities and other weaknesses in Android and managed to install a rogue application on the Google Nexus 6P phone without user interaction.
Apple's iPhone 6S: The hackers took advantage of two iOS vulnerabilities - a use-after-free bug in the renderer and a memory corruption flaw in the sandbox – and stole pictures from the device. Even though Apple has implemented iOS update, hackers could break the securities successfully. They have recently credited to have found a threat of remote code execution error. They have also informed that an update of iOS 10.1 can also be hacked effortlessly.
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