iOS 10 Features and News: Zerodium Bounty Is Now Up To $1.5 Million

Good news for hackers and programmers out there: the Zerodium bounty for its exploit acquisition program is now up to $1.5 million.

"ZERODIUM pays premium rewards to security researchers to acquire their original and previously unreported zero-day exploits affecting major operating systems, software, and/or devices," the program states.

"While the majority of existing bug bounty programs accept almost any kind of vulnerabilities and PoCs but pay lower rewards, at ZERODIUM we focus on high-risk vulnerabilities with fully functional exploits, and we pay the highest rewards on the market."

For the iPhone, the company will pay for those who could successfully show the remote code execution, TEE/TrustZone and privilege escalation. A similar bounty is offered for Android 7 Nougat, BlackBerry OS 10 and Windows 10 Mobile.

And here's another good news, it doesn't even matter if somebody else has beat you to exploiting the weakness of the iOS 10 as Zerodium is willing to pay the same amount to another who also successfully jailbreaks the software.

Zerodium founder shared the news himself on Twitter in reply to a question from a user who asked if the bounty was offered during the difficulty of hacking the iOS 10. He wrote, "Higher difficulty & we want to attract more suppliers as we can afford to buy multiple iOS exploit chains for $1.5M each."

Not everybody will get the $1.5 million payout however as the company said that the payment will depend on the submission and how popular it is, or the difficulty level in breaking into the software.