WhatsApp Hacker Challenge Could Net You A Cool $1 Million

Meta must be feeling very confident about the security of its WhatsApp messaging application. The company is co-sponsoring this year's Pwn2Own competition (from ZDI, the Zero Day Initiative group) with a cool combined $2 million in prizes. If you're clever enough, you can earn $1 million with a single Whatsapp exploit.

The large dollar amount will be awarded to anyone who can craft a zero-click remote code execution exploit for WhatsApp, meaning it must work across a network, require no user action, and allow for executing any code on the target phone. That's quite the tall order, but then again so is the prize that ZDI succinctly describes as "a number with two commas."

Even if you can't quite reach that lofty goal, there's $500,000 on hand for a similar exploit that requires a click from a user, possibly in a malicious link. A ...