A WhatsApp Zero-Day Can Fetch up to $8 Million, Leaked Documents Say

A cybersecurity researcher can make up to $8 million overnight by finding security weaknesses in WhatsApp and selling those findings to the highest bidder, according to a set of leaked documents obtained by TechCrunch. Allegedly, “as of 2021, a zero-day allowing its user to compromise a target’s WhatsApp on Android and read the content of messages can cost between $1.7 and $8 million,” the American news outlet reports [https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/05/zero-days-for-hacking-whatsapp-are-now-wor