Research on the economics of the zero-day market conducted by HackerOne, MIT, Harvard and Facebook will be presented at RSA Conference. Attackers stockpile vulnerabilities and exploits, which are maintained by not only attackers, but also by some governments. Researchers say the defensive side benefits most from when it can find the same vulnerabilities as are in the offensive stockpile and kill those. Creating incentives for the development of tools used in bug hunting, such as new fuzzers, is much more valuable to defenders and brings them closer to “bug collisions”””
Source: https://threatpost.com/zero-day-market-economics-favor-incentives-for-defensive-tools/112217/