every AI generated pixel, every AI generated token I see makes me want to use the internet less. it makes me want to log off and spend the rest of my days reading books published before 2020. this must be how the paranoid creatives felt in the 2000s when cross-site tracking and the patriot act also pushed them offline. this must be how those creatives who refused to give up their own methods of distribution felt when things like facebook and twitter and youtube monopolized attention through the 2010s and turned the internet into a small collection of walled gardens. I don't know what kind of creative you'd call me, but I cannot abide by the internet being polluted by mushy, merely-probable junk data which is drowning out what had once been a place to find real testimony, real human effort and art whose maxim is to bridge the gap between us. sure there will always be oases, places where human creativity continues to thrive, but I'll forever miss when the entire land was covered in green.
this story is crazy not because someone in the exploit business got a taste of their own medicine, that part should be expected. the crazy thing is that trenchant, widely considered to be one of the “good discerning western exploit shops” was leaking chrome exploits to who knows where.
https://infosec.exchange/@lorenzofb/115412729875549507
Boom! Rafal Goryl of PixiePoint Security needed two attempts but was able to get his exploit of the Phillips Hue Bridge working. He heads off to the disclosure room to provide all the details. #Pwn2Own
You can find all of the results from Day Two of #Pwn2Own Ireland at https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2025/10/22/pwn2own-ireland-2025-day-two-results - We'll be updating this blog throughout the day as results become available. #P2OIreland
The new version of the Sanitizer API is now enabled by default in @firefoxnightly!
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Sanitizer
https://wicg.github.io/sanitizer-api/
Please give it a try and provide us with feedback.
Recapping Day One of #Pwn2Own Ireland 2025. Join @dustin_childs (and Maude) as he covers the highlights of the first day of the competition. We awarded $522,500 for 34 unique 0-day bugs, and more is to come. https://youtu.be/tiM_StSFvow
The schedule for r2con2025 is out!
It's online, plenty of awesome talks.
I recently had the opportunity to talk about Evilginx on the Click Here podcast from The Record.
I reflected on the moral considerations surrounding the double-edged nature of developing offensive security tools.
Enjoy the Frankenstein reference 😅
https://therecord.media/evilginx-kuba-gretzky-interview-click-here-podcast
ProTip: A recommendation to enjoy more this year’s #r2con2025 as long as it's 100% online: Gather some friends with drinks and popcorn and watch the stream live together!
All the presentations are recorded, so the speakers will be available in the chat and really appreciate your live feedback in the Telegram/Discord and YouTube channels!
Impressed with the level of compatibility of the new memory-safe C/C++ compiler Fil-C (filcc, fil++; https://fil-c.org/) based on clang. Many libraries and applications that I've tried work under Fil-C without changes, and the exceptions haven't been hard to get working.
Our 2025-2026 internship season has started.
Check out the list of openings and apply for fun and knowledge!
https://blog.quarkslab.com/internship-offers-for-the-2025-2026-season.html
All results from Day One of #Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 can be found at https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2025/10/21/pwn2own-ireland-2025-day-one-results - This will be updated throughout the day with results. #P2OIreland