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Vupen has been hacked – possibly hit by the unknown unknown

There are reports a French group called Vupen, who are famous as resellers for zero-day vulnerabilities, has been hacked – and 130 zero-days have been leaked. If you look at their target client description you’ll see why this is important (http://www.vupen.com/english/services/lea-index.php). A really basic zero-day can sell for £1000; a decent one – like they sell – can go for £100,000+. If these guys can’t protect themselves then there is little hope for anyone else if someone decides they really want to get in.
DigiNinja

Think about that – 130 0-days possibly in the hands of who knows whom… I can feel a rash of Flames coming on.

  1. Ass@catcher.com
    June 8, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    Journalists do fact checks before spreading false information, you’re not a journalist you’re anasshole, you must update you bio to asshole.

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  2. Marty
    June 8, 2012 at 7:53 am

    Nothing was hacked, nothing was leaked, this news is shit that’s all.

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  3. Matt Hazz
    June 7, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    They had their chance to respond to Attrition.org’s email before they went public, they chose to ignore it. Sure, thats not evidence but speaks to a cover up in my mind.

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  4. loller
    June 7, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    yeah, because VUPEN’s CEO is going to tweet “0day can happen to anyone, lol, internet over.”

    lol.

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  5. June 7, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    I think your headline is misleading.

    There’s not been any evidence that I’ve seen that Vupen has been hacked. In fact Vupen’s CEO says it’s nonsense. See https://twitter.com/cBekrar/status/210616913729036288

    Maybe we need to take the claims with a pinch of salt unless something shows up which suggests it might be true.

    Of course, if it *was* true it would be big news. But at the moment everyone is just retweeting a rumour.

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  6. June 7, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    hope , it will be released soon 😉

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