Casado: Zero-click phone exploits cost $2M-$2.5M on the black market
Martin Casado · The Latest in Cyber Attacks · Feb 20, 2020 · at 2:45
Martin Casado, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), lists black-market prices for mobile zero-day exploits to demonstrate how security spending has raised the bar against attackers.
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“If you were to buy on the black market an exploit to break into a phone, for example, an Android phone, it would cost about 2.5 million dollars if it doesn't require the participation of the user. If you wanted to break into an iPhone, it's about two million dollars. If you wanted to buy an exploit that required the participation of the user, like them clicking on a link, it's about a million dollars.”
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