2017 Pwnie Award Winners

Best Backdoor

M.E.Doc

Best Branding

GhostButt

Best Client-Side Bug

Microsoft Office OLE2

Best Cryptographic Attack

The first collision for full SHA-1

Best Privilege Escalation Bug

Drammer: Deterministic Rowhammer Attacks on Mobile Platforms

Best Server-Side Bug

CVE-2017-0143, 0144, 0145

Best Song

Hello (Covert Channel)

Epic 0wnage

Shadow Brokers dumps

Epic Achievement

Federico Bento

Lamest Vendor Response

SystemD bugs

Lifetime Achievement Award

Felix “FX” Lindner

Most Epic Fail

Laws Down Under

Most Innovative Research

ASLR on the line

Most Over-Hyped Bug

Enter 30 to shell – Cryptsetup bug