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The sale of zero-day exploits is a very profitable business that most people completely ignore. The International Institute of Cyber Security talks about this practice using the example of Zerodium, a zero-day broker. According to the company itself, Zerodium offers rewards to information security and pentest investigators to acquire its original zero-day vulnerability investigations that affect major operating systems, […]
The private exploit seller is expanding its reach to acquire bugs in popular Linux builds. Zerodium is offering $45,000 to hackers willing to privately report zero-day vulnerabilities in the Linux operating system. On Thursday, the private exploit acquisition program announced the new addition to its bounties on Twitter. Until 31 March, Zerodium is willing to offer […]
Finding some zero-day exploits for Tor Browser on Windows and Tails (a Linux distribution with integrated Tor and other privacy features) can make you richer by up to $1 Million. That’s because of a bug bounty hosted by Zerdioum – the buys zero-day bugs and sells it to government agencies. In their announcement post, Zerodiam notes that […]
Despite calls to eliminate Adobe Flash Player, researchers inside and outside the vendor continue to invest in and build mitigations against modern attacks. As recently as three weeks ago, Adobe announced it had rewritten its memory manager, laying the groundwork for widespread heap isolation, which is an important protection against use-after-free vulnerability exploits. Today, however, […]
THE TRADE IN the secret hacker techniques known as “zero day exploits” has long taken place in the dark, hidden from the companies whose software those exploits target, and from the privacy advocates who revile the practice. But one zero-day broker is taking the market for these hacking techniques into the open, complete with a […]
Earlier this month, exploit acquisition platform Zerodium debuted an iOS 9 bug bounty that would pay out up to three million dollars to hackers who managed to develop a browser-based untethered jailbreak for iOS 9, which it could then sell to clients interested in shelling out a lot of money to gain illicit access to […]
Short Bytes: Zerodium’s million dollar iOS 9 jailbreak bounty program has expired and it has resulted in a new iOS jailbreak. But, the names of the winning hacking team and its members hasn’t been revealed by Zerodium. The firm plans to sell the hack to its customers, including spy agencies, governments, technology companies and others. […]