<![CDATA[Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program]]>Since 2022, Google's Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) has been the path for outside researchers to get paid for reporting security flaws in the company's open source code, including projects like Flutter, Angular, Go, and Fuchsia.

With an announcement on X, they have now decided to discontinue the product-facing side of it.

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Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program

Submitting product vulnerability reports is no longer possible. You can thank AI for that.

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]]>https://isurg.org/topic/a6f14bdd-e334-47a5-aa14-dcea376b7097/google-has-shut-down-part-of-its-open-source-bounty-programRSS for NodeThu, 22 Oct 2026 12:36:04 GMTWed, 07 Oct 2026 14:54:38 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program on Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:48:39 GMT]]>

TBH they probably shut it down because LLMs are spamming the bounty system.

This is the reason. Its stated in the article:

"Why did it come to this? Back in March, a post on the Bug Hunters blog from Google engineers said AI-generated reports were flooding the program. Some were serving up hallucinated information, while others were flagging legit coding errors that had little to no impact on the security posture of the targeted project."

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/26212203https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/26212203Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:48:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program on Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:11:32 GMT]]>TBH they probably shut it down because LLMs are spamming the bounty system.

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/26211433https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/26211433Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:11:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Google Has Shut Down Part of its Open Source Bounty Program on Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:10:23 GMT]]>Well the program is useless now with Ai being more efficient than humans, right? Right?

/s

]]>https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/26211414https://isurg.org/post/https://lemmy.world/comment/26211414Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:10:23 GMT