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Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on Russian troll farm Rybar
2024-10-18 01:00

Propaganda op focuses on anti-West narratives to meddle with elections The US has placed a $10 million bounty on Russian media network Rybar and a number of its key staffers following alleged...

Arc browser launches bug bounty program after fixing RCE bug
2024-10-01 22:33

The Browser Company has introduced an Arc Bug Bounty Program to encourage security researchers to report vulnerabilities to the project and receive rewards. [...]

Google Cloud Document AI flaw (still) allows data theft despite bounty payout
2024-09-17 20:15

Chocolate Factory downgrades risk, citing the need for attacker access Overly permissive settings in Google Cloud's Document AI service could be abused by data thieves to break into Cloud Storage...

Google increases Chrome bug bounty rewards up to $250,000
2024-08-28 17:00

Google has more than doubled payouts for Google Chrome security flaws reported through its Vulnerability Reward Program, with the maximum possible reward for a single bug now exceeding $250,000. [...]

Samsung boosts bug bounty to a cool million for cracks of the Knox Vault subsystem
2024-08-08 01:15

Samsung has dangled its first $1 million bug bounty for anyone who successfully compromises Knox Vault - the isolated subsystem the Korean giant bakes into its smartphones to store info like credentials and run authentication routines. Folks who can unlock a Samsung device and plunder user data before the handset is first unlocked will net up to $400,000 - although that is dependent on the amount of information that can be snaffled.

Samsung boosts bug bug bounty to a cool million for cracks of the Knox Vault subsystem
2024-08-08 01:15

Good luck, crackers: It's an isolated processor and storage enclave, and top dollar only comes from a remote attack Samsung has dangled its first $1 million bug bounty for anyone who successfully...

Google increases bug bounty rewards five times, up to $151K
2024-07-11 18:17

Google has announced a fivefold increase in payouts for bugs found in its systems and applications reported through its Vulnerability Reward Program, with a new maximum bounty of $151,515 for a single security flaw."As our systems have become more secure over time, we know it is taking much longer to find bugs - with that in mind, we are very excited to announce that we are updating our reward amounts by up to 5x," Google said.

WhisperGate suspect indicted as US offers a $10M bounty for his capture
2024-06-27 00:33

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Feds put $5M bounty on 'CryptoQueen' Ruja Ignatova
2024-06-26 21:58

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Microsoft paid Tenable a bug bounty for an Azure flaw it says doesn't need a fix, just better documentation
2024-06-05 06:44

Tenable thinks these tags can be abused by a rogue Azure customer to access other customers' stuff - a cross-tenant attack - if those victims rely on Service Tags in their firewall rules. "We appreciate the collaboration with Tenable to responsibly disclose the inherent risk in using Service Tags as a single mechanism for vetting secure network traffic," a Microsoft spokesperson told The Register.