Google paid $ 6,5 million to hackers for security bug reports

More than $6,5 million was paid by Google to researchers for reporting bugs . The payments were made for the year 2019 and are under the company's Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP).

The amount of rewards paid for and disclosed through Google's VRP, range from $100 to $31.337, which can increase drastically for exploit chains.

An example is his case Alpha Lab Guang Gong which collected $201.337 for an exploit , το οποίο εκτελούσε κώδικα εξ αποστάσεως σε συσκευές Pixel 3.

The amount paid as his rewards VRP program by Google, almost doubled for 2019 compared to the $ 3,4 million paid respectively in 2018 or the total amount paid each year since the program began in 2010.

Η Google has expanded the VRP program and now covers almost all of its products. Rewards those who discover vulnerabilities in Chrome, Android, the most popular third-party applications in etc.

In total, the company paid 461 security researchers during the of 2019, with Gong's reward being the largest single payout he's ever made.

Over the past 9 years, the company has rewarded researchers with approximately $ 15 million for vulnerabilities reported through the VRP program.

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