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The most serious category of attack, a Zero Click FCP, has Android at $2.5M and iOS at $2M. To be fair, the difference is negligible and both are only about as
by Veserv 4y ago
The most serious category of attack, a Zero Click FCP, has Android at $2.5M and iOS at $2M. To be fair, the difference is negligible and both are only about as expensive as starting a new McDonalds and easily fall within the scope of a standard small business loan. So yeah, trivially hacking any phone in the world is only within the financial means of around 60 million people in the world.
- mlinksva 4y agoThe main difference on that page isn't between iOS and Android, but server/desktop and mobile. Former is cheap! Is there anywhere that tracks more current prices?
- pseudo0 4y agoZerodium buying mobile exploits for $2-2.5M does not mean that a buyer can go out shopping for an exploit and find one in that price range. Exploits are a highly illiquid market and there is going to be a big bid-ask spread. Plus a lot of middlemen are restricted in various ways in terms of who they sell to. Then there the issue of building an actual capability around the base exploit... There's a reason why we don't have thousands of NSO-like small businesses running around.