Rewards of Up to $500,000 Offered for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux Zero-Days

Found on Bleeping Computer on Friday, 29 June 2018
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Exploit broker Zerodium is offering rewards of up to $500,000 for zero-days in UNIX-based operating systems like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, but also for Linux distros such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, and Tails.

Since Zerodium drew everyone's attention to the exploit brokerage market in 2015, the market has gotten more and more crowded, but also more sleazy, with some companies being accused of selling zero-days to government agencies in countries with oppressive or dictatorial regimes, where they are often used against political oponents, journalists, and dissidents, instead of going after real criminals.

With rewards like that, it's suprising that many researchers still announce the bugs they find so that they can be fixed.