HackerOne’s $81M Bug Bounty Bonanza: A Win for White-Hat Hackers Worldwide! 🚀
HackerOne bug bounty programs paid out a whopping $81 million in the past year, with AI vulnerabilities up over 200%. Meanwhile, cross-site scripting and SQL injection are on the decline. Enter the “bionic hackers,” using AI tools to boost their bug-hunting prowess. Who knew catching bugs could be so lucrative?
Hot Take:
Who knew that bounty hunting would go digital and turn into a lucrative career choice? Forget about chasing outlaws in the Wild West; the real gold rush is in the zeros and ones. With $81 million paid to digital bounty hunters, it seems like the hackers have found the real-life cheat codes for wealth. Watch out, cowboys, the new sheriffs are armed with keyboards and AI!
Key Points:
- HackerOne dished out $81 million in bug bounty rewards over the past year, a 13% increase from the previous year.
- AI vulnerabilities are booming, with a 200% increase, and prompt injection vulnerabilities skyrocketing by 540%.
- The top 10 bug bounty programs accounted for $21.6 million of the total payout.
- AI tools are now a staple in the workflow of 70% of bug bounty hunters surveyed.
- Security issues like XSS and SQLi are declining, but authorization flaws are on the rise.
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