Zerodium Offers $1.5 Million Bounty for iOS 10 Jailbreak

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Posted September 30, 2016 at 3:28am by iClarified

Following Apple's announcement of a Security Bounty Program, Zerodium has tripled its bounty offering $1.5 million for a jailbreak of iOS 10.

Zerodium says it pays premium rewards to security researchers to acquire their original and previously unreported zero-day exploits affecting major operating systems, software, and/or devices.

While the majority of existing bug bounty programs accept almost any kind of vulnerabilities and PoCs but pay lower rewards, at ZERODIUM we focus on high-risk vulnerabilities with fully functional exploits, and we pay the highest rewards on the market.

Notably, Zerodium previously offered a $1 million bounty for the jailbreak of iOS 9. A team won the money about a month and a half later.

The higher bounty this year may be due to Apple's announcement of its own bounty program which pays up to $200,000 to developers who discover vulnerabilities in its software.

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Zerodium Offers $1.5 Million Bounty for iOS 10 Jailbreak

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Foshomyniggs - September 30, 2016 at 5:25pm

I wonder when. The reword for the Joe break become so much the Apple considers possibly making stupid back doors they can remotely patch just because

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gamerscul9870 - September 30, 2016 at 5:35pm

Apple has no connection with jailbreak. Doing so will make the products void warranty.

BS - October 1, 2016 at 3:59am

Actually as jailbreak is a software modification if you restore your phone back to factory there is no way to know if it's been modified. If you jailbreak your phone and are either dumb enough to call apple or the carrier while jailbroken you may suffer the consequences. Most warranties don't cover software except the first 90 days.

AntiNeo - September 30, 2016 at 3:15pm

Public released jailbreak does no harm,cause people can choose to update as soon as patch is out.From another side all these "bounty programs" should be illegal due to potential breach of everyone's privacy in long term.Just saying..

drigomarki - September 30, 2016 at 12:31pm

I love my 9.3.3 iOS! ;-)

R3ALNTL3SS - September 30, 2016 at 10:45am

Reportedly Luca Todesco has already jail broken IOS 10. Is it worth 1.5 million to him?

Trojan - September 30, 2016 at 3:44am

Samsung and Microsoft sponsoring the jailbreak.

gamerscul9870 - September 30, 2016 at 4:20pm

Imagine that...

Userone - September 30, 2016 at 3:35am

Maybe we will get that jb after all...

Pug Nuts - September 30, 2016 at 3:43am

That's not how that works. Once the exploit is sold, its privately used. We won't be seeing a public iOS 10 jailbreak anytime soon, so don't get your hopes up kid.

Mr? - September 30, 2016 at 1:40pm

Actually it's not used privately. It's resold to highest bidders. Most likely government and law enforcement agencies.