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Apple refused to pay bounty to Kaspersky for uncovering vulnerability in 'Operation Triangulation' - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)

submitted 5 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Kaspersky uncovered iOS vulnerabilities in 'Operation Triangulation', reported to Apple, but was refused bounty payment
Apple's Security Bounty Program offers rewards up to $1 million for discovering vulnerabilities to prevent them from being sold on the dark web
Apple's refusal to pay Kaspersky could be due to restrictions on financial transactions with companies in sanctioned countries like Russia.

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[–] BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 72 points 5 months ago (10 children)

This is not really a story, is it.

I worked for an Australian company, that was bought by an American company. Instantly we were required to do business as per American law, such as embargo's. We lost many customers (businesses) that honestly had nothing to do with the actual reason for the embargos. For example Iran has an American embargo because of nuclear refinement, but we just wanted to sell "knives and forks" to them. Nope - they might use those forks in their refinement centrifuges... This is what happens (but also why embargos work).

Kaspersky is Russian owned, so the hacks were discovered by Russian [whitehat] hackers. I'll bet that Apple had no ability to do "business" with the company, even if it wanted to, since Russia is currently under embargo due to the Ukraine conflict.

Now if Kaspersky spent time undermining it's own failure of a government, and putting an end to its dictatorship, things would probably work out better for everyone in Russia.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Is that the case though. You can buy a copy of Kaspersky anti virus right now if you live in the US. They have a US office. You can legally send them money.

[–] exanime 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Or put the money in escrow pending resolution of the embargo ... This is, I think, the easiest, most responsible solution to show good faith

[–] lengau@midwest.social 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Apple

Good faith

Lol good one!

[–] exanime 4 points 5 months ago

Yes agreed... I was trying to point out that just not paying is a dick move

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah thank you. There's a ton of ways to "hold" the money legally so Apple can still be separated from some of its money.

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