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Firm Offers $1.5 Million for Apple iOS Jailbreak
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Zerodium, which is part of the exploit acquisition platform software sector, has offered $1.5 million for a complete hack of the iOS 10 from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL).
Zerodium describes a full hack as follows:
ZERODIUM pays premium rewards to security researchers to acquire their original and previously unreported zero-day exploits affecting major operating systems, software, and/or devices. While the majority of existing bug bounty programs accept almost any kind of vulnerabilities and PoCs but pay lower rewards, at ZERODIUM we focus on high-risk vulnerabilities with fully functional exploits, and we pay the highest rewards on the market.
MacRumors quotes founder Chaouki Bekrar:
We’ve increased the price due to the increased security for both iOS 10 and Android 7, and we would like to attract more researchers all year long, not just during a specific bounty period as we did last time.
For those with the skills a full list of bounties offered by Zerodium:
| Product / Exploit Type | New Price | Previous Price |
| Apple iOS 10 (Remote Jailbreak) | $1,500,000 | $500,000 |
| Android 7 (Remote Jailbreak) | $200,000 | $100,000 |
| Flash (RCE) + Sandbox Escape | $100,000 | $80,000 |
| MS Edge + IE (RCE) + Sandbox Escape | $80,000 | $50,000 |
| Safari on Mac (RCE) + Sandbox Escape | $80,000 | $50,000 |
| OpenSSL or PHP (RCE) | $50,000 | $40,000 |
| MS Windows Reader App (RCE) | $50,000 | $30,000 |
| MS Office Word/Excel (RCE) | $40,000 | $30,000 |
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