Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet And the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
“Although the market for zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits has been around for more than a decade, until recently it was fairly small and lurked in the closed, underground world of hackers and criminals. In the last few years, however, it has gone commercial and exploded as the number of buyers and sellers has ballooned, along with prices, and the once murky trade has become legitimized with the entry of government dollars into the arena to create an unregulated cyberweapons bazaar.
One of t...he first hints of the free-market commercialization of zero days appeared in December 2005, when a seller named “fearwall” posted a zero-day vulnerability for sale on eBay and sparked fears that legitimate security researchers and bug hunters would soon go the way of mercenaries and sell their skills and wares to the highest bidder instead of handing information about software holes over to vendors to be fixed. Before putting his Windows Excel zero day on the auction block, fearwall did disclose information about the vulnerability to Microsoft, as “responsible”MoreLess
One of t...he first hints of the free-market commercialization of zero days appeared in December 2005, when a seller named “fearwall” posted a zero-day vulnerability for sale on eBay and sparked fears that legitimate security researchers and bug hunters would soon go the way of mercenaries and sell their skills and wares to the highest bidder instead of handing information about software holes over to vendors to be fixed. Before putting his Windows Excel zero day on the auction block, fearwall did disclose information about the vulnerability to Microsoft, as “responsible”MoreLess
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