Government agencies pay hackers big money for early access to exploits

Source: NDTV

It might come as a surprise to many of you, but there is a booming market of buying and selling zero-day exploits of popular software and operating systems. An exclusive zero-day hack for iOS could get you anywhere in between $100,000 to $250,000.

According to reports in Forbes, any resourceful hacker today has an option to sell zero-day exploits to government agencies via middlemen like Bangkok based 'the Grugq'. For those of you not familiar with the term 'zero-day hack', it is basically a software hack that tries to exploit software vulnerabilities, which are unknown to others or the developer of software in question.

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