Operation Zero, a Russian company, has increased its bounty for zero-day exploits on iPhones and Android devices from $200,000 to $20 million.
The company sells these exploits exclusively to Russian private and government organizations, specifying that the end user is a non-NATO country.
The high bounties may be temporary and are a reflection of market demand and the difficulty of hacking iOS and Android platforms.
Unlike traditional bug bounty platforms, Operation Zero sells vulnerabilities to governments without alerting the affected vendors.
The zero-day market is largely unregulated, but affected by geopolitics, such as new regulations in China that aim to corner the market for intelligence purposes.
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