RUSSIAN ZERO-DAY SELLER OFFERS $20M FOR HACKING PHONES

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Operation Zero, a Russian company specializing in buying and selling zero-day software exploits, has increased its payments for zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhones and Android devices from $200,000 to $20 million. While traditionally, bug bounty platforms inform vendors of vulnerabilities, companies like Operation Zero sell these vulnerabilities to governments, leading to a lucrative yet unregulated gray market where prices and customer identities remain opaque.