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Bug seller Zerodium boosts payouts for 'droid, slashes iOS prices in half


Bug-broker Zerodium says it will cough up as much as $2.5m in exchange for techniques to silently and remotely hijack Android devices via critical vulnerabilities, signaling a major change in the pricing of security holes.


A new payment structure revealed on Tuesday made clear that flaw-hunters who hook Zerodium up with proof-of-concept full-chain exploits against Google's operating system can claim the $2.5m top prize. Meanwhile, payouts for iOS bugs, which had been considered much more valuable, have been cut by as much as half.


Zerodium did not say what the reasoning was for the move, though the announcement comes in the wake of reports that a handful of critical iOS and Android zero-days were fancy buying compact bijou cardboard francisco alley android bounty nearly there