No stranger to the malevolent efforts of cybercriminals, PayPal is now offering financial rewards to researchers who find and report security bugs to the site's administrators. Subscribe to read this ...

TikTok has patched a reflected XSS security flaw and a bug leading to account takeover impacting the firm's web domain. Reported via the bug bounty platform HackerOne by researcher Muhammed "milly" ...

Bug bounty platforms and software companies are struggling to handle a surge of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability ...

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. Among last year's ...

HackerOne, one of the largest bug bounty platforms in the world, reported there were 85,000 valid bounty submissions in 2025, up 7% from the previous year. Crypto protocols have warned that an ...

TikTok has addressed two vulnerabilities that could have allowed attackers to take over accounts with a single click when chained together for users who signed-up via third-party apps. The social ...

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