Tag: bug-bounty
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Hardware Hackers Urge Vendor Engagement for Security Success
Experts Detail Upsides of Bug Bounties and Getting Devices Into Researchers’ Hands. As fresh vulnerabilities in hardware keep coming to light, one question remains: What vendors can do to better prevent, identify and eradiate flaws? One shortlist offered by veteran hardware hackers centered on the upsides of engagement, including bug bounty programs. First seen on…
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Hardware Hackers Urge Vendor Engagement for Security Success
Experts Detail Upsides of Bug Bounties and Getting Devices Into Researchers’ Hands. As fresh vulnerabilities in hardware keep coming to light, one question remains: What vendors can do to better prevent, identify and eradiate flaws? One shortlist offered by veteran hardware hackers centered on the upsides of engagement, including bug bounty programs. First seen on…
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WhatsApp flaw allowed discovery of the 3.5 billion mobile numbers registered to the platform
Tags: api, attack, bug-bounty, business, china, cloud, dark-web, data, data-breach, encryption, flaw, government, mobile, phishing, phone, privacy, spam, technology, vulnerability, windowsHey there You are using WhatsApp, marks this as one of the most embarrassing weaknesses yet in the world’s most widely-used communication app.The vulnerability was in WhatsApp’s contact discovery mechanism, the foundation of how this and many similar apps work. When WhatsApp is installed, it asks for permission to match mobile numbers in a user’s…
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WhatsApp flaw allowed discovery of the 3.5 billion mobile numbers registered to the platform
Tags: api, attack, bug-bounty, business, china, cloud, dark-web, data, data-breach, encryption, flaw, government, mobile, phishing, phone, privacy, spam, technology, vulnerability, windowsHey there You are using WhatsApp, marks this as one of the most embarrassing weaknesses yet in the world’s most widely-used communication app.The vulnerability was in WhatsApp’s contact discovery mechanism, the foundation of how this and many similar apps work. When WhatsApp is installed, it asks for permission to match mobile numbers in a user’s…
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Bug Bounty Programs Rise as Key Strategic Security Solutions
Bug bounty programs create formal channels for organizations to leverage external security expertise, offering researchers legal protection and financial incentives for ethical vulnerability disclosure. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/bug-bounty-programs-rise-as-key-strategic-security-solutions
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Meta Expands WhatsApp Security Research with New Proxy Tool and $4M in Bounties This Year
Meta on Tuesday said it has made available a tool called WhatsApp Research Proxy to some of its long-time bug bounty researchers to help improve the program and more effectively research the messaging platform’s network protocol.The idea is to make it easier to delve into WhatsApp-specific technologies as the application continues to be a lucrative…
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Fighting AI with AI: Adversarial bots vs. autonomous threat hunters
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, backup, breach, bug-bounty, cloud, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, endpoint, exploit, hacker, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, Internet, iot, least-privilege, malicious, network, phishing, startup, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayWhile there’s no doubt AI holds great potential for cybersecurity, in practice, it’s mainly being used to automate what we’re already doing. For companies to stand a chance, we need new approaches to AI-powered defense, not optimized ones. Attackers already have systemic advantages that AI amplifies dramatically. While there are some great examples of how…
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Fighting AI with AI: Adversarial bots vs. autonomous threat hunters
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, backup, breach, bug-bounty, cloud, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, endpoint, exploit, hacker, healthcare, identity, infrastructure, Internet, iot, least-privilege, malicious, network, phishing, startup, technology, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayWhile there’s no doubt AI holds great potential for cybersecurity, in practice, it’s mainly being used to automate what we’re already doing. For companies to stand a chance, we need new approaches to AI-powered defense, not optimized ones. Attackers already have systemic advantages that AI amplifies dramatically. While there are some great examples of how…
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Amazon rolls out AI bug bounty program
Select researchers and academic teams will get access to Amazon’s NOVA models next year as the tech giant continues to integrate the AI tools into its own tech stack. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/amazon-bug-bounty-program-ai-nova/
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Amazon rolls out AI bug bounty program
Select researchers and academic teams will get access to Amazon’s NOVA models next year as the tech giant continues to integrate the AI tools into its own tech stack. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/amazon-bug-bounty-program-ai-nova/
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Critical UniFi OS Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution
Tags: bug-bounty, control, credentials, cve, cyber, flaw, remote-code-execution, risk, router, vulnerabilitySecurity researchers have uncovered a severe unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Ubiquiti’s UniFi OS that earned a substantial $25,000 bug bounty reward. Tracked as CVE-2025-52665, this critical flaw allows attackers to gain complete control of UniFi devices without requiring any credentials or user interaction, posing significant risks to organizations using UniFi Dream Machine routers…
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Critical UniFi OS Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution
Tags: bug-bounty, control, credentials, cve, cyber, flaw, remote-code-execution, risk, router, vulnerabilitySecurity researchers have uncovered a severe unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Ubiquiti’s UniFi OS that earned a substantial $25,000 bug bounty reward. Tracked as CVE-2025-52665, this critical flaw allows attackers to gain complete control of UniFi devices without requiring any credentials or user interaction, posing significant risks to organizations using UniFi Dream Machine routers…
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Anthropic Claude Unternehmensdaten gefährdet
Tags: ai, api, bug, bug-bounty, cyberattack, data, exploit, google, infrastructure, injection, network, risk, vulnerabilityEin aktueller Report zeigt, wie sich über Anthropic Claude sensible Daten extrahieren lassen.Eine kürzlich bekannt gewordene Schwachstelle im KI-Assistenten Claude von Anthropic könnte von Angreifern ausgenutzt werden, um heimlich Unternehmensdaten zu exfiltrieren. Dabei lassen sich auch Sicherheitskonfigurationen umgehen, die solche Attacken eigentlich verhindern sollen. Wie sich das mithilfe indirekter Prompt-Injection-Techniken und Claudes Code Interpreter bewerkstelligen…
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Anthropic Claude Unternehmensdaten gefährdet
Tags: ai, api, bug, bug-bounty, cyberattack, data, exploit, google, infrastructure, injection, network, risk, vulnerabilityEin aktueller Report zeigt, wie sich über Anthropic Claude sensible Daten extrahieren lassen.Eine kürzlich bekannt gewordene Schwachstelle im KI-Assistenten Claude von Anthropic könnte von Angreifern ausgenutzt werden, um heimlich Unternehmensdaten zu exfiltrieren. Dabei lassen sich auch Sicherheitskonfigurationen umgehen, die solche Attacken eigentlich verhindern sollen. Wie sich das mithilfe indirekter Prompt-Injection-Techniken und Claudes Code Interpreter bewerkstelligen…
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Bug-Bounty-Programm trifft KI ein zweischneidiges Schwert
Tags: ai, api, bug-bounty, ciso, cloud, compliance, hacker, reverse-engineering, service, threat, tool, vulnerabilityKI-gestütztes Bug Hunting verspricht viele Vorteile. Ob sich diese auch in der Praxis verwirklichen, ist eine andere Sache.Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) wird zunehmend auch zum Treiber von Bug-Bounty-Programmen. Sicherheitsexperten greifen auf Large Language Models (LLMs) zurück, um:die Suche nach Schwachstellen zu automatisieren,Reverse Engineering von APIs zu bewerkstelligen, undCode-Basen schneller denn je zu durchleuchten.Allerdings gehen diese Effizienz-…
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Bug-Bounty-Programm trifft KI ein zweischneidiges Schwert
Tags: ai, api, bug-bounty, ciso, cloud, compliance, hacker, reverse-engineering, service, threat, tool, vulnerabilityKI-gestütztes Bug Hunting verspricht viele Vorteile. Ob sich diese auch in der Praxis verwirklichen, ist eine andere Sache.Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) wird zunehmend auch zum Treiber von Bug-Bounty-Programmen. Sicherheitsexperten greifen auf Large Language Models (LLMs) zurück, um:die Suche nach Schwachstellen zu automatisieren,Reverse Engineering von APIs zu bewerkstelligen, undCode-Basen schneller denn je zu durchleuchten.Allerdings gehen diese Effizienz-…
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Bug-Bounty-Programm trifft KI ein zweischneidiges Schwert
Tags: ai, api, bug-bounty, ciso, cloud, compliance, hacker, reverse-engineering, service, threat, tool, vulnerabilityKI-gestütztes Bug Hunting verspricht viele Vorteile. Ob sich diese auch in der Praxis verwirklichen, ist eine andere Sache.Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) wird zunehmend auch zum Treiber von Bug-Bounty-Programmen. Sicherheitsexperten greifen auf Large Language Models (LLMs) zurück, um:die Suche nach Schwachstellen zu automatisieren,Reverse Engineering von APIs zu bewerkstelligen, undCode-Basen schneller denn je zu durchleuchten.Allerdings gehen diese Effizienz-…
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AI-powered bug hunting shakes up bounty industry, for better or worse
Tags: access, ai, authentication, automation, bug-bounty, business, ciso, cloud, control, credentials, data, detection, exploit, flaw, guide, identity, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, risk, risk-management, sql, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerabilityFirehose of ‘false positives’: Gunter Ollmann, CTO at Cobalt.io, warns that AI is exacerbating the existing problem that comes from vendors getting swamped with often low-quality bug submissions.Security researchers turning to AI is creating a “firehose of noise, false positives, and duplicates,” according to Ollmann.”The future of security testing isn’t about managing a crowd of…
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AI-powered bug hunting shakes up bounty industry, for better or worse
Tags: access, ai, authentication, automation, bug-bounty, business, ciso, cloud, control, credentials, data, detection, exploit, flaw, guide, identity, infrastructure, injection, intelligence, risk, risk-management, sql, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerabilityFirehose of ‘false positives’: Gunter Ollmann, CTO at Cobalt.io, warns that AI is exacerbating the existing problem that comes from vendors getting swamped with often low-quality bug submissions.Security researchers turning to AI is creating a “firehose of noise, false positives, and duplicates,” according to Ollmann.”The future of security testing isn’t about managing a crowd of…
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Top 10 Best Bug Bounty Platforms in 2025
As digital attack surfaces expand with rapid innovation in cloud, AI, and Web3 technologies, organizations increasingly rely on the collective intelligence of ethical hackers to identify vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. These platforms facilitate a structured, incentivized approach to security testing, offering unparalleled scalability, diversity of expertise, and cost-effectiveness compared to traditional security…