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I hope whomever claims the bounty also alerts the relevant platform. Perhaps they can get 2 bounties.
I doubt I'll ever be in this position. But, I can assure you that double-crossing a Russian Mafia gang is not on my bucket list.
The trick is to make sure you've checked everything else off on your list before getting to that one
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Operation Zero, which is based in Russia and launched in 2021, also added that “as always, the end user is a non-NATO country.” On its official website, the company says that “our clients are Russian private and government organizations only.”
Zelenyuk also said that the bounties Operation Zero offer right now may be temporary, and a reflection of a particular time in the market, and the difficulty of hacking iOS and Android.
“The price formation of specific items is heavily dependent on availability of the product on the zero-day market,” Zelenyuk said in an email.
For at least a decade, various companies around the world have offered bounties to security researchers willing to sell the bugs and hacking techniques to exploit those flaws.
Unlike traditional bug bounty platforms like Hacker One or Bugcrowd, companies like Operation Zero don’t alert the vendors whose products are vulnerable, but instead sell them to government customers.
Crowdfense, a competitor based in the United Arab Emirates, offers up to $3 million for the same kind of chain of bugs on Android and iOS.
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