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Just six figures? To build this and maintain it over multiple years, including a menu of payloads and exploits? When individual exclusive 0day exploits each ran
by AlyssaRowan 12y ago
Just six figures? To build this and maintain it over multiple years, including a menu of payloads and exploits? When individual exclusive 0day exploits each rank at 5 figures upwards? Salaries?
That seems unrealistically low for this. Sounds like much better value for money than any nation state would actually get in practice, and more in the ballpark of Malware-as-a-Service outlets like Hacking Team.
(Why the love for .lv?)
- tptacek 12y agoI'm not counting payloads and exploits against the cost of the framework, because the framework is all we have to go on. Exploits cost a lot of if you (a) need zero-day, (b) need mass-infection, or (c) need to foil attribution. They're significantly cheaper if you relax those concerns. Similarly: I assume the payload that physically corrupts a centrifuge array is a bit pricier than the one that scans the hard drive for credit card numbers. Latvia's just the smallest EU economy that came into my head.