A researcher planned to use a vulnerability to compromise an Android phone at a hacking contest later this week. The vulnerability allowed attackers to to remotely install malicious apps on Android handsets by tricking users into clicking a link on their phones or computer browsers while logged into a Google account. Google fixed the underlying bug in the Android Market and awarded the researcher a $1,337 bounty under its bug bounty program. The contest, Pwn2Own, runs Wednesday through Friday at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2011/03/hacker-kills-his-own-pwn2own-bug-for.html