The corporate additionally introduced that its Abuse VRP program paid out 40% extra year-over-year in 2024, based mostly on greater than 250 legitimate bugs focusing on Google merchandise for abuse and misuse points, to a complete of over $290,000 in rewards.
Rewards for crucial vulnerabilities reported in Android and Google cellular apps topped $3.3 million, with 2% extra crucial and excessive vulnerabilities reported yr over yr.
Cloud VRP, launched in October for reporting vulnerabilities in Google Cloud companies, tallied $500,000 in rewards based mostly on greater than 200 distinctive security vulnerabilities.
