Overview
- The three‑day contest in Cork ran October 21–23 and targeted eight categories spanning flagship phones, NAS, printers, home networking, messaging apps, smart‑home and surveillance gear, and wearables.
- Summoning Team topped the leaderboard with 22 Master of Pwn points and $187,500, followed by Team ANHTUD in second and Team Synactiv in third.
- Reports on the Samsung Galaxy S25 hack diverge, with a ZDI post crediting Ken Gannon of Mobile Hacking Lab and Dimitrios Valsamaras of Summoning Team for a five‑bug chain, while final‑day coverage credits Interrupt Labs for an improper input validation exploit worth $50,000 and 5 points.
- This edition added a locked‑device USB attack vector for mobile handsets, alongside established wireless paths such as Bluetooth, Wi‑Fi and NFC.
- Team Z3 withdrew a planned zero‑click WhatsApp demonstration and opted for private disclosure to ZDI before engagement with Meta’s engineering team.