<p>At a top hacking competition Tianfu Cup held in China, Microsoft&#8217;s Edge browser was hacked 3 times. Luckily, the hacked Edge browser is the &#8220;old&#8221; one that is based on Microsoft&#8217;s EdgeHTML rendering engine. As you already know, Microsoft is replacing its own Edge HTML rendering engine with Google&#8217;s Chromium browser engine.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, Microsoft&#8217;s Edge was not the only browser that was hacked during the Tianfu Cup competition. Google&#8217;s Chrome browser was exploited twice while Apple&#8217;s Safari browser and Microsoft Office 365 were exploited <em>only</em> once.</p>
<p>Team 360Vulcan won the competition for their efforts and exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Office 365, qemu+Ubuntu, VMWare Workstation, and Adobe PDF reader which brought them $382,500. This team has also given up on their attempt in exploiting iOS which was scheduled before the end of the tournament.</p>