{"id":45271,"date":"2022-02-11T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/f09c036a-a16f-441e-943b-dafffaabbd67"},"modified":"2022-02-11T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:44:00","slug":"google-says-nearly-9-million-given-out-in-2021-vulnerability-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/google-says-nearly-9-million-given-out-in-2021-vulnerability-rewards\/","title":{"rendered":"Google says nearly $9 million given out in 2021 vulnerability rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google announced<\/a> this week that its Vulnerability Reward Programs doled out $8,700,000 for vulnerability rewards in 2021. <\/p>\n

Researchers donated $300,000 of their rewards to a charity of their choice, according to a blog from Sarah Jacobus of Google’s Vulnerability Rewards Team.<\/p>\n

For Android vulnerabilities, payouts doubled compared to 2020, with almost $3 million being rewarded to researchers for a variety of bugs. The company also handed out its largest Android payout ever at $157,000. <\/p>\n

The company also launched the Android Chipset Security Reward Program, an invite-only program for researchers looking through manufacturers of certain popular Android chipsets. <\/p>\n

The program paid $296,000 for over 220 unique security reports, specifically shouting out Aman Pandey of the Bugsmirror Team<\/a>, Yu-Cheng Lin, and researcher gzobqq@gmail.com, who secured the $157,000 award. The company noted that it is also offering $1,500,000 for bugs found in the Titan-M Security chip used in their Pixel device. <\/p>\n

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