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Combined with the difficulty of finding a hackable browser vulnerability to start the chain of exploitation, that makes Android a harder-and more expensive-target overall.
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Thanks largely to increased security measures in Android phones, LPE exploits are now roughly as difficult to find for Android as they are for iOS, Shwartz says. But the real source of the changes that have made Android exploits more expensive, he says, is the difficulty of finding a so-called "local privilege escalation" exploit for Android, which allows an attacker to gain deeper control of a phone after they've already gotten a foothold. It's long been tougher to find a way into a target device through a phone's browser on Android than iOS, Shwartz argues, due to the relative security of Chrome versus Safari. That ratio also holds more generally, he says an Android attack is often worth roughly 30 percent more than its iPhone equivalent. An web-based iPhone attack, he says, is worth about $1.5 million non-exclusively. Shwartz says that a web-based attack that targets a high-end Android phone can now sell for more than $2 million non-exclusively, meaning that the researcher can sell it for that price to multiple buyers.
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Meanwhile, Bekrar writes, " Android security is improving with every new release of the OS thanks to the security teams of Google and Samsung, so it became very hard and time consuming to develop full chains of exploits for Android and it's even harder to develop zero-click exploits not requiring any user interaction." The zero-day market is so flooded by iOS exploits that we've recently started refusing some them," Zerodium's founder Chaouki Bekrar wrote in a message to WIRED. "During the last few months, we have observed an increase in the number of iOS exploits, mostly Safari and iMessage chains, being developed and sold by researchers from all around the world. The price of some iMessage attacks dropped by half, from $1 million to $500,000. And Zerodium actually reduced the price of so-called "one-click" exploits that target iPhones via a web browser, from $1.5 million to $1 million. That's not only the most Zerodium has ever offered for any single zero-day exploit it's also $500,000 more than the company offers for a zero-click attack that targets an iPhone. It now offers up to $2.5 million for a so-called zero-click hacking technique that fully, silently takes over an Android phone with no interaction from the target user. On Tuesday, the firm Zerodium, which buys and sells so-called zero-day exploits that take advantage of secret software vulnerabilities, published an updated price list. For the first time, a secret hacking tool capable of remotely taking control of an Android smartphone sells for more than its iPhone equivalent. Its popularity and layers of security protections made any technique to crack it vastly more rare-and more expensive, on the underground market-than comparable Android attacks.
For years, the iPhone was considered the most locked-down mainstream computing device in the world.