Some of the world's leading browsers made by some of the world's biggest tech companies have been hacked in record time by computer security experts competing China's Tianfu Cup.
The hackfest, established as an alternative to its Western counterpart, Pwn2Own, puts software and devices to the test as researchers look for Zero-day bugs - unfixed vulnerabilities that can be exploited by bad actors.
ZDNet said that Google's Chrome, the older version of Microsoft's Edge, and Apple's Safari were all hacked during the competition's first day.
Among other popular software and hardware that had exploitable, previously unknown security flaws are Adobe's PDF Reader, Microsoft's Office 365, and D-Link DIR-878 router. To make sure that free and open source users don't get complacent, Qemu-KVM (Linux kernel module used for virtualization) running on Ubuntu OS was also on the list.
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