bounty Hunters, this is for you. Zerodium has just launched a new challenge : to provide up to $ 1.5 million reward to the one who will be able to hack iOS 10, the latest version of the operating system of Apple. A way for the company to make a beautiful pub.
One can nevertheless observe that the amount of the premiums continues to grow. The security vendor had already launched the same “contest” for Android and Windows Phone, but the reward was only $ 100,000. For iOS 9, Zerodium proposed $ 500,000. To find a vulnerability is exploitable in version 10, so it’s a premium three times higher than that proposed by the editor. Suffice to say that the appeal will not remain unnoticed.
“The new versions of iOS and Android are both more secure and include new protections, which prompted us to increase their respective prices. Thanks to its architecture and its partitioning, iOS is far more robust than Android. This is what justifies the price difference between the two exploits,” says Chaouki Bekrar, the founder of Zerodium.
It is in any case much more than the program of bug bounty put in place by Apple itself. Since the beginning of August, apple offers up to $ 200,000 for the hacking of the firmware boot of iOS 10.
But the challenge offered by Zerodium has its conditions, and they are complex. The reward will only be paid to the hackers who developed a device to hack into a remote terminal under iOS 10, without interaction with the target, so through a Web page or a text message to be trapped.
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