{"id":72121,"date":"2017-08-24T10:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/private-firm-puts-500k-bounty-on-signal-whatsapp-zero-day-vulnerabilities"},"modified":"2017-08-24T10:42:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T17:42:38","slug":"private-firm-puts-500k-bounty-on-signal-whatsapp-zero-day-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/private-firm-puts-500k-bounty-on-signal-whatsapp-zero-day-vulnerabilities","title":{"rendered":"Private firm puts $500K bounty on Signal, WhatsApp zero-day vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/private-firm-puts-500k-bounty-on-signal-whatsapp-zero-day-vulnerabilities.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zero-day vulnerabilities targeting popular secure messenger applications, like Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp, can fetch payments of up to $500,000 from Zerodium, a buyer and seller of zero-day research, based on a newly released list of available awards offered by the U.S. firm.<\/p>\n<p>The market for zero-day vulnerabilities \u2014 an undisclosed software security hole that can be exploited by hackers \u2014 is notoriously rich and murky. Traders tend to operate away from public scrutiny for a number of reasons that make it difficult to learn about the market.<\/p>\n<p>Although Zerodium isn\u2019t known for the transparency of its business, the company\u2019s listings for vulnerabilities provides a window into the supply and demand behind the vulnerability resale industry.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberscoop.com\/zerodium-signal-whatsapp-facebook-zero-day-vulnerability\/\">https:\/\/www.cyberscoop.com\/zerodium-signal-whatsapp-facebook...erability\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero-day vulnerabilities targeting popular secure messenger applications, like Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp, can fetch payments of up to $500,000 from Zerodium, a buyer and seller of zero-day research, based on a newly released list of available awards offered by the U.S. firm. The market for zero-day vulnerabilities \u2014 an undisclosed software security hole that can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}