Zerodium to Offer $1 Million for First iOS 9 Hack

Security industry startup firm Zerodium is offering one million dollars to the first person to hack an iOS 9 device remotely.
According to Wired:

As long as hackers have sold their secret hacking techniques known as zero-day exploits to government spies, they’ve generally kept that trade in the shadows. Today it’s come into the spotlight with the biggest bounty ever publicly offered for a single such exploit: $1 million for a technique that can break into an iPhone or iPad running Apple’s freshly released iOS 9.
On Monday, a new security industry firm known as Zerodium announced that it will pay that seven-figure sum to anyone who gives the company a hacking technique that can take over an iOS device remotely, via a web page the victim visits, a vulnerable app on the victim’s device, or by text message. The company says it’s willing to pay the bounty multiple times, though it may cap the payouts at $3 million.
 
[…] Zerodium founder Chaouki Bekrar has long been one of the few public faces of the zero-day industry; In addition to his new startup Zerodium, which launched in July, he’s also the founder of the more established French hacking firm Vupen, which has been unusually open about the fact that it develops intrusion techniques for popular software and sells them to government agencies around the world. With the new company and his flashy iOS bounty, Bekrar is expanding from merely creating zero-days to brokering them, too, as a kind of hacker middleman.

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