WabiSabiLabi or WSLabi was an online marketplace selling computer exploits in an auction format. The company claimed that security researchers who disclosed vulnerabilities to software vendors would be more fairly compensated for their work by selling on the trusted platform. However, only a year after opening the marketplace, the company was considering shutting it down due to lack of paying customers. The company was considering moving to a subscription service to more adequately compensate security researchers. Customers who purchased exploits included the companies
Verisign
Verisign Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the , , and gener ...
and
3Com
3Com Corporation was an American digital electronics manufacturer best known for its computer network products. The company was co-founded in 1979 by Robert Metcalfe, Howard Charney and others. Bill Krause joined as President in 1981. Metcalfe ex ...
.
[ Founded in July 2007, a cofounder was arrested on spying charges in November of that same year.]
See also
*Zone-H
Zone-H is an archive of defaced websites. It was established in Estonia on March 2, 2002. A whois request on the domain shows that it was created on February 14, 2002.
Product
Once a defaced website is submitted to Zone-H, it is mirrored on ...
, website defacement database also created by Roberto Preatoni
*TheRealDeal
TheRealDeal was a darknet website and a part of the cyber-arms industry reported to be selling code and zero-day software exploits.
The creators claimed in an interview with DeepDotWeb that the site was founded in direct response to the numb ...
References
External links
Archived page of wares for sale
Cyberwarfare
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