A cybersecurity firm by the name of Zerodium recently made an interesting blog post where it named iOS the most secure mobile operating system on the market, while also offering a bunch of money to anyone who can break into it. Anyone who can develop an untethered jailbreak for iOS 9, and give knowledge of it to Zerodium exclusively, will receive a $1,000,000 reward from the company. If you’re wondering why the company would be willing to pay so much, it’s because Zerodium makes all of its money by finding exploits and vulberabilities and then auctioning them off for copious amounts of money. How much do you think Apple would pay to keep an iOS 9 jailbreak out of people’s hands?
ZERODIUM, the premium zero-day acquisition platform, announces and hosts the world’s biggest zero-day bug bounty program: The Million Dollar iOS 9 Bug Bounty. Apple iOS, like all operating system, is often affected by critical security vulnerabilities, however due to the increasing number of security improvements and the effectiveness of exploit mitigations in place, Apple’s iOS is currently the most secure mobile OS. But don’t be fooled, secure does not mean unbreakable, it just means that iOS has currently the highest cost and complexity of vulnerability exploitation and here’s where the Million Dollar iOS 9 Bug Bounty comes into play. The Million Dollar iOS 9 Bug Bounty is tailored for experienced security researchers, reverse engineers, and jailbreak developers, and is an offer made by ZERODIUM to pay out a total of three million U.S. dollars ($3,000,000.00) in rewards for iOS exploits/jailbreaks. ZERODIUM will pay out one million U.S. dollars ($1,000,000.00) to each individual or team who creates and submits to ZERODIUM an exclusive, browser-based, and untethered jailbreak for the latest Apple iOS 9 operating system and devices. The program is open until October 31st, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. EDT, and may be terminated prior to its expiration if the total payout to researchers reaches three million U.S. dollars ($3,000,000.00).
