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Who are these individuals that will pay millions of dollars for an exploit? Cyber criminals rely almost exclusively on dead bugs, frequently using exploits from
by grugq 7y ago
Who are these individuals that will pay millions of dollars for an exploit? Cyber criminals rely almost exclusively on dead bugs, frequently using exploits from the metasploit framework. That gives then sufficient access to a broad range of victims so they can generate revenue through volume.
0days are used against hardened targets. Think “Iranian nuclear facilities” rather than “grandma’s PC”
- corobo 7y agoThey are made up, in my head, figments of my imagination. Hence “for some reason”.
- grugq 7y agoYeah. They don’t exist. People don’t think about things rationally, they see phrases like “black market” and assume it is some sort of criminal transaction with armed guards and meetings at midnight and shit. It is nothing like that. It is the same as freelance development work, except there are very few customers and the developer writes something that may or may not have any value.