A handful of Russian authorities establishments have partnered up with Standoff 365 and BI.ZONE, which signifies a change within the notion bug bounty applications and the Russian hacking neighborhood, which till lately was seen as a risk to safety reasonably than a method of enhancing it.
In February 2023, the Ministry of Digital Growth enrolled 10 of its e-government programs, together with Gosuslugi, the portal of the state companies of the Russian Federation, on each the Standoff 365 Bug Bounty and the Bi.ZONE Bug Bounty platform. The utmost payout for locating a crucial 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 date.
These federal efforts are trickling right down to regional governments as effectively. In December 2023, the municipal companies 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 data system (RO GIS), and the Republic of Sakha additionally opened its digital companies to bug looking in Could 2024. Not like applications launched by personal corporations, these affiliated with authorities establishments are open solely to residents of the Russian Federation.
