Google Triples Some Bug Bounty Payouts

Google is upping the ante for its Chrome bug bounty rewards program, doubling payouts from $15,000 to $30,000 for “high-quality” reports. It is also tripling baseline payouts for Chrome to $15,000. The bug-bounty pay raise is part of Google’s Chromium open-source project, which supplies the vast...

Zerodium Raises Zero-Day Payout Ceiling to $2M

Exploit acquisition vendor Zerodium said Monday that it is upping its payouts for full, working exploits across its entire program. It’s now paying $2 million for remote iOS jailbreaks, $1 million for WhatsApp/iMessage/SMS/MMS remote code-execution RCE and a half-million for Google Chrome RCEs. T...

Zimperium Publishes Exploits for Patched Android Bugs

Exploits for two patched Android privilege escalation vulnerabilities were published today by security company Zimperium. These are the first publicly released submissions from its N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program, which began in February and had among its stated goals to encourage researchers ...

Zimperium Program Buys Exploits for Patched Mobile Vulnerabilities

Mobile security company Zimperium said Tuesday that it will start buying exploits, but in a departure from most other programs, it will not be buying zero-days. The company’s N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program will pay researchers from a pool of $1.5 million for exploits targeting vulnerabilities...

Netragard Shutters Controversial Exploit Acquisition Program

Netragard, one of the small number of companies that buys and sells exploits, has shut down its exploit acquisition program in the wake of the HackingTeam breach. Among the revelations in the cache of documents leaked after the attack on HackingTeam was information about Netragard selling an...