Security News > 2020 > December > Pandemic year increases bug bounties and report submissions
Vulnerability submissions have increased over the past 12 months on at least one crowdsourced security platform, with critical issue reports recording a 65% jump.
This year, submissions for vulnerability submissions through Bugcrowd recorded a 50% increase, while for Priority 1 reports there was a growth of 65%. Web apps remain in the hackers' top preferences, although they are diversifying the targets to stay competitive.
"In the last year, Bugcrowd saw submissions to all targets increase, though notably API vulnerabilities doubled, while those found in Android targets more than tripled" - Bugcrowd.
Payouts for P1 vulnerabilities in this sector doubled in the second quarter of this year.
One trend prefiguring in bug hunting is the "Outside in" approach that opens the bounty scope to obscure or forgotten assets that expand a company's cyber risk.