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Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study [1] seems to support the idea that iOS exploits are scarce. Especially compared to Android (when using your "less use
by w23j 11y ago
Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study [1] seems to support the idea that iOS exploits are scarce. Especially compared to Android (when using your "less users" perspective).
"Mobile: VUPEN offered several different remote code execution and local privilege escalation exploits for Android; however, not all of them were 0day and Hacking Team deemed that the prices were too high to purchase. Though there was interest in purchasing exploits for iOS, VUPEN said they were limited to certain customers, presumably high-paying government agencies." [1]
"iOS exploit pricing: Adriel stated he was supply-constrained for iOS RCE exploits because exploit developers frequently had their own connections to sell them, and that he believed that such exploits were overpriced. An exclusive exploit sale could cost over a million dollars, [...]." [1]
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9949818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9949818