On the Zero-Day Market

A post announces the paper “Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market,” whose abstract argues that a global market for government spyware and zero-day exploits has grown over the past decade amid failures to control it; the paper recounts the socio-technical history since 2014 and recommends emphasizing coalitions of the willing, targeted export controls and sanctions against bad actors, and increased transparency for oversight of domestic government spyware use.