A handful of Russian authorities establishments have partnered up with Standoff 365 and BI.ZONE, which signifies a change within the notion bug bounty packages and the Russian hacking neighborhood, which till lately was seen as a risk to security moderately than a method of enhancing it.
In February 2023, the Ministry of Digital Improvement enrolled 10 of its e-government methods, together with Gosuslugi, the portal of the state providers of the Russian Federation, on each the Standoff 365 Bug Bounty and the Bi.ZONE Bug Bounty platform. The utmost payout for locating a important vulnerability is ₽1 million (US$11,000). Based on the Ministry, greater than 16,000 folks have signed up for the federal government’s bug bounty program, with greater than 100 vulnerabilities discovered to this point.
These federal efforts are trickling all the way down to regional governments as properly. In December 2023, the municipal providers of the Moscow Oblast (uslugi.mosreg.ru) launched its personal bug bounty program on Standoff 365, adopted by the Rostov Oblast in the identical month with its geographical info system (RO GIS), and the Republic of Sakha additionally opened its digital providers to bug looking in Could 2024. Not like packages launched by personal corporations, these affiliated with authorities establishments are open solely to residents of the Russian Federation.
