Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 has come to an end, and participants earned more than $1.2 million for exploits targeting phones, printers, smart speakers, smart home hubs, a wellness device, AI infrastructure and coding tools, and cloud databases.
The highest rewards were paid out for Google Pixel 10 exploits, which were demonstrated by three teams. They collectively earned more than $560,000 for their work.
The Ikotas Labs team earned the full $300,000 payout by chaining multiple bugs to remotely hack a Pixel phone.
Tim Becker and Yves Bieri received $150,000 for their Pixel exploit — they did not get the full payout because their exploit involved a previously known flaw.
The third Pixel hack was demonstrated by Dimitrios Valsamaras and Ken Gannon, who earned $112,500 for an exploit that chained a zero-day with a previously known vulnerability.
Last year, Valsamaras and Gannon earned $50,000 for hacking a Samsung Galaxy S25 device. They later showed how they exploited vulnerabilities in Samsung software, including the virtual assistant Bixby, to hack mobile devices.
In addition to the Pixel exploits, a significant reward, $50,000, was earned by a researcher for a Sonos Era 300 smart speaker hack.