Google ups bug bounties for ‘high quality’ Chrome hunters

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Google ups bug bounties for ‘high quality’ Chrome hunters

August 29, 2024 cyberelias 0 Comments 1 tag

Other levels of compensation, without RCE, include demonstrating a controlled write or a memory corruption.

The baseline for bugs that do not demonstrate such “higher-quality reports” range from US$7,000 to US$25,000.

Last year, the total payouts in Google’s bug hunter program were US$10 million dollars, distributed among 632 people from 68 countries. Just over a third of the sum ($US3.4 million) concerned Android vulnerabilities. The second largest expenditure (US$2.1 million) concerned Chrome bugs.

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