Mysterious hacker has been selling Windows 0-days to APT groups for three years

guest · May 1, 2019

Mysterious hacker has been selling Windows 0-days to APT groups for three years
Hacker has sold Windows zero-days to the likes of Fancy Bear, FruityArmor, and SandCat
May 1, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/myste...windows-0-days-to-apt-groups-for-three-years/

For the past three years, a mysterious hacker has been selling Windows zero-days to at least three cyber-espionage groups, as well as cyber-crime gangs, researchers from Kaspersky Lab have told ZDNet.

However, Kaspersky's recent revelations show that APT groups won't shy away from dipping their toes in the underground hacking scene to acquire exploits initially developed by lone hackers for cyber-crime groups, if ever necessary.

The hacker that Kaspersky Lab experts say has been one of the most prolific vendor of zero-days is known as Volodya, but some of our readers will recognize him from a previous nickname the threat actor used circa 2016.
HACKER SOLD ZERO-DAYS TO AT LEAST THREE APTS
"Volodya is a prolific exploit developer and zero-day seller that we have been tracking since 2015," Raiu told ZDNet in an email conversation last week.
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Furthermore, with a price tag of $200,000 for a Windows local privilege escalation zero-day and an established list of clients ranging from government intelligence agencies and cyber-crime gangs, Volodya could very well be in charge of his very own team of developers or exploit-brokering company, a theory that cannot be dismissed at this point, in the lack of more palpable details.
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