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Zerodium offering $1.5 million for a Apple iOS 10 remote jailbreak

The security firm Zerodium announced an increase in bounty prices for zero day exploits with the top prize now being $1.5 million for and Apple iOS 10 remote jailbreak, a $1 million increase.

While the Apple prize is by far the largest, Zerodium also doubled the reward for an Android 7 jailbreak to $200,000 and increased the payday for a Flash (RCE) plus sandbox escape to $100,000, a $20,000 increase. The other changes include.

Product/Exploit Type

New Price

Previous Price

MS Edge + IE (RCE) + sandbox escapote

$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

$40,000

$30,000

Zerodium markets itself as independent researcher firm that rewards people for their zero-day discoveries. It then analyzes, documents, and provides all acquired security information, along with protective measures and security recommendations, to its clients.

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