“The protection arm of the U.S. Cyber Command says it needs products from Endgame, a company known for crafting hacking tools, but purely to safeguard military networks. The once uber-secretive vendor is part of the cyber arms trade, a legal but controversial industry that sells governments so-called exploits, or ‘zero days’ in information security parlance. Endgame’s traditional goods are tailored to find and exploit bugs in software that developers have not discovered yet. Typically, the malware is deployed to help disrupt or tap an adversary’s systems. “
Source: CYBERCOM Wants Secretive Cyber Arms Dealer To Hack the Pentagon – Nextgov.com
