Got $90,000? A Windows 0-Day Could Be Yours
Summary: A seller using the nickname "BuggiCorp" offered a claimed Windows local privilege escalation zero-day on the Russian-language forum exploit[dot]in for $90,000, saying it works on every Windows version from Windows 2000 through Windows 10. The seller posted two videos of the exploit running on a system patched through May 2016, one of them with Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) enabled, while Microsoft strategist Jeff Jones said the company was aware of the thread but the claims were unverified.
What you should know: Microsoft has paid out more than $500,000 through its bug bounty program and raised its EMET-bypass reward from $50,000 to $100,000, so a working exploit for this class of bug may be worth more to the vendor than the $90,000 asking price on the forum. Trustwave's Ziv Mador called a zero-day listed among common forum offerings "definitely an anomaly" and said zero-days are "fast becoming a commodity for the masses."
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