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Zeroday Cloud hacking event awards $320,0000 for 11 zero days
The Zeroday Cloud hacking competition in London has awarded researchers $320,000 for demonstrating critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in components used in cloud infrastructure.
- December 17, 2025
- 06:09 PM
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Microsoft bounty program now includes any flaw impacting its services
Microsoft now pays security researchers for finding critical vulnerabilities in any of its online services, regardless of whether the code was written by Microsoft or a third party.
- December 11, 2025
- 11:00 AM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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Apple now offers $2 million for zero-click RCE vulnerabilities
Apple is announcing a major expansion and redesign of its bug bounty program, doubling maximum payouts, adding new research categories, and introducing a more transparent reward structure.
- October 10, 2025
- 12:50 PM
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Google's new AI bug bounty program pays up to $30,000 for flaws
This week, Google has launched an AI Vulnerability Reward Program dedicated to security researchers who find and report flaws in the company's AI systems.
- October 07, 2025
- 09:19 AM
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Zeroday Cloud hacking contest offers $4.5 million in bounties
A new hacking competition called Zeroday Cloud, focused on open-source cloud and AI tools, announced a total prize pool of $4.5 million in bug bounties for researchers that submit exploits for various targets.
- October 06, 2025
- 01:12 PM
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HackerOne paid $81 million in bug bounties over the past year
Bug bounty platform HackerOne announced that it paid out $81 million in rewards to white-hat hackers worldwide over the past 12 months.
- October 02, 2025
- 11:35 AM
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Microsoft pays record $17 million in bounties over the last 12 months
Microsoft paid a record $17 million this year to 344 security researchers across 59 countries through its bug bounty program.
- August 06, 2025
- 05:18 AM
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Microsoft increases Zero Day Quest prize pool to $5 million
Microsoft will offer up to $5 million in bounty awards at this year's Zero Day Quest hacking contest, which the company describes as the "largest hacking event in history."
- August 05, 2025
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Microsoft now pays up to $40,000 for some .NET vulnerabilities
Microsoft has expanded its .NET bug bounty program and increased rewards to $40,000 for some .NET and ASP.NET Core vulnerabilities.
- July 31, 2025
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Microsoft now pays up to $30,000 for some AI vulnerabilities
Microsoft announced an increase in bug bounty payouts to $30,000 for AI vulnerabilities found in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform services and products.
- April 24, 2025
- 11:06 AM
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OpenAI now pays researchers $100,000 for critical vulnerabilities
Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has announced a fivefold increase in the maximum bug bounty rewards for "exceptional and differentiated" critical security vulnerabilities from $20,000 to $100,000.
- March 28, 2025
- 01:54 PM
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Google paid $12 million in bug bounties last year to security researchers
Google paid almost $12 million in bug bounty rewards to 660 security researchers who reported security bugs through the company's Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP) in 2024.
- March 10, 2025
- 11:36 AM
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Microsoft raises rewards for Copilot AI bug bounty program
Microsoft announced over the weekend that it has expanded its Microsoft Copilot (AI) bug bounty program and increased payouts for moderate severity vulnerabilities.
- February 10, 2025
- 10:00 AM
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Microsoft launches Zero Day Quest hacking event with $4 million in rewards
Microsoft announced today at its Ignite annual conference in Chicago, Illinois, that it's expanding its bug bounty programs with Zero Day Quest, a new hacking event focusing on cloud and AI products and platforms.
- November 19, 2024
- 08:30 AM
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Apple creates Private Cloud Compute VM to let researchers find bugs
Apple created a Virtual Research Environment to allow public access to testing the security of its Private Cloud Compute system, and released the source code for some "key components" to help researchers analyze the privacy and safety features on the architecture.
- October 24, 2024
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Google increases Chrome bug bounty rewards up to $250,000
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.
- August 28, 2024
- 01:00 PM
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Samsung to pay $1,000,000 for RCEs on Galaxy’s secure vault
Samsung has launched a new bug bounty program for its mobile devices with rewards of up to $1,000,000 for reports demonstrating critical attack scenarios.
- August 06, 2024
- 01:13 PM
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Google increases bug bounty rewards five times, up to $151K
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.
- July 11, 2024
- 02:17 PM
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US Defense Dept received 50,000 vulnerability reports since 2016
The Cyber Crime Center (DC3) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) says it has reached the milestone of processing its 50,000th vulnerability report submitted by 5,635 researchers since its inception in November 2016.
- March 19, 2024
- 05:13 PM
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Google paid $10 million in bug bounty rewards last year
Google awarded $10 million to 632 researchers from 68 countries in 2023 for finding and responsibly reporting security flaws in the company's products and services.
- March 12, 2024
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