Google has released a report that brings information from Google. how much the company pays in the bounty program to hunt for bugs and vulnerabilities in many of its applications and services. According to the information obtained, last year’s total $12 million rewardEquivalent to more than R$62 million.
More than 2,009 vulnerabilities were found during the year 2022, each taking different values depending on their severity and ease of reproduction. The highest reward for a critical exploit during the year was $605,000. The vulnerability was in Android, one of the top prizes in Google’s bug-hunting program.
As the chart above shows, the rewards offered by the program are increasing rapidly. Between 2018 and 2019, we had a jump in value almost doubling, and growth has remained steady after 2020. In 2022, a total of 703 researchers and programmers were paid and reports came from 68 different countries.
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Android appears as the main highlight in the Google report. In addition to being responsible for the biggest bounty ever recorded since the company launched this program, it will now include bug searches on Google Nest and Fitbit wristbands.
Google also praises some of the best bug hunters on the platform. Aman Pandey, for example, is one of the main researchers of the program and has found more than 200 vulnerabilities in Android in the last year alone. The company says Pandey has disclosed more than 500 bugs and vulnerabilities since it started in 2019.
For those interested, there are details on how to join the vulnerability hunt program’s official website.
Source: Tec Mundo
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