0-day vulnerabilities are the most dangerous type of vulnerabilities, and companies often pay millions of dollars to white-hat hackers to discover them. But such fees are still the exception. Their price does not exceed $100,000 on average, Alexey Lednev, head of the intrusion detection department at the security expert center Positive Technologies, told socialbites.ca.
“According to the offers on the sites in the Darknet, the highest price in the advertisement in the last year and a half is $ 100 thousand. A few days ago, an advertisement appeared about the purchase of 0-day IoT devices at a price of $ 50 thousand,” he told socialbites.ca.
The cost of a vulnerability is affected by several factors: the size of the target audience of a 0-day product, the scope of application of the product, and most importantly, the options that the vulnerability opens up to the attacker. In the latter case, the ability to remotely execute arbitrary code is valuable. Such an option opens up almost unlimited possibilities for attackers in terms of movement within the infrastructure of a compromised company and the manipulations that a hacker can perform with it.
This is why some of these vulnerabilities can cost millions of dollars. Read more about the most expensive 0-days – material “socialbites.ca”.
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Source: Gazeta
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