Blaming a \u201csignificant rise\u201d in AI submissions, Google has paused its open source bug bounty program until next year.<\/p>\n
Last year, TechCrunch reported that cybersecurity experts were warning that AI slop posed a serious risk to bug bounty programs<\/a>. Looks like that\u2019s the issue confronting Google\u2019s Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program, where researchers were rewarded for finding vulnerabilities in the company\u2019s open source software.<\/p>\n In posts on X<\/a> and the program website<\/a>, Google said the bug bounty program was paused as of October 1, with a promise to provide \u201can update\u201d in the first quarter of 2027. According to Tom\u2019s Hardware<\/a>, Google engineers and open source maintainers were overwhelmed by reports that were invalid or contained hallucinations.<\/p>\n \u201cThis pause is due to a significant rise in automated submissions, the vast majority of which are not valid,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n In the meantime, participants are encouraged to consider Google\u2019s other bug bounty programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blaming a \u201csignificant rise\u201d in AI submissions, Google has paused its open source bug bounty program until next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,317288,49,48,20132,61],"class_list":["post-921583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bug-bounty","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-in-brief","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}