$1 million bounty offered for Tor Browser zero-day exploits
TECHNOLOGY $1 million bounty offered for Tor Browser zero-day exploits Zerodium, a hacking company that sells exploits to governments around the world, is now offering $1 million for previously undiscovered vulnerabilities in the Tor web browser. The top prize, a $250,000 bounty, requires a researcher to be able to demonstrate a remote code exploit against Tor while the browser is at its highest security settings on either Windows 10 or the security-focused operating systems TAILS. The attack vector has to be a website targeting the Tor Browser. The Tor browser anonymizes web traffic, encrypting it between computers known as nodes. The network’s architecture makes determining the origin of traffic extremely difficult. The section of the internet known as the “dark web” is only accessible via the Tor browser. The six-figure prize comes weeks after Zerodium placed $500,000 bounties on secure messenger applications, like Signal, Telegram and ...