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Surely someone with that kind of money and need would start with a $5 wrench attack. You can buy a lot of persuasion for $20m.
this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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It depends on what you’re trying to do.
It’s hard to use the $5 wrench on millions of people at a time.
Which then makes me wonder what they're looking for, which they couldn't get otherwise. Data is cheap and we let companies get away with so much
Maybe they can't use the wrench on the target without an international incident? So they need to cloud the search by hitting a larger group of people
But a wrench doesn't give plausible deniability ...
Yes, but a wrench doesn't scale all that well.
If only Google and Apple could offer more...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Operation Zero, which is based in Russia and launched in 2021, also added that “as always, the end user is a non-NATO country.” On its official website, the company says that “our clients are Russian private and government organizations only.”
Zelenyuk also said that the bounties Operation Zero offer right now may be temporary, and a reflection of a particular time in the market, and the difficulty of hacking iOS and Android.
“The price formation of specific items is heavily dependent on availability of the product on the zero-day market,” Zelenyuk said in an email.
For at least a decade, various companies around the world have offered bounties to security researchers willing to sell the bugs and hacking techniques to exploit those flaws.
Unlike traditional bug bounty platforms like Hacker One or Bugcrowd, companies like Operation Zero don’t alert the vendors whose products are vulnerable, but instead sell them to government customers.
Crowdfense, a competitor based in the United Arab Emirates, offers up to $3 million for the same kind of chain of bugs on Android and iOS.
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