The corporate additionally introduced that its Abuse VRP program paid out 40% extra year-over-year in 2024, primarily based 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 cell apps topped $3.3 million, with 2% extra crucial and excessive vulnerabilities reported 12 months over 12 months.
Cloud VRP, launched in October for reporting vulnerabilities in Google Cloud providers, tallied $500,000 in rewards primarily based on greater than 200 distinctive safety vulnerabilities.