Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Google paid over $17 million to 747 security researchers who reported security bugs through its Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP) in 2025. [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

Google has launched kvmCTF, a new vulnerability reward program (VRP) first announced in October 2023 to improve the security of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor that comes with $250,000 bounties for full VM escape exploits. [...]

Google has increased rewards for reporting remote code execution vulnerabilities within select Android apps by ten times, from $30,000 to $300,000, with the maximum reward reaching $450,000 for exceptional quality reports. [...]

LayerZero Labs has launched a bug bounty on the Immunefi platform that offers a maximum reward of $15 million for critical smart contract and blockchain vulnerabilities, a figure that sets a new record in the crypto space. [...]

Google last year paid its highest bug bounty ever through the Vulnerability Reward Program for a critical exploit chain report that the company valued at $605,000. [...]

Google has announced that all security researchers who report Android 13 Beta vulnerabilities through its Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) will get a 50% bonus on top of the standard reward until May 26th, 2022.  [...]