{"id":3492055,"date":"2026-10-04T20:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/google-froze-its-open-source-bug-bounty-program-due-to-a-significant-rise-in-ai-submissions\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T20:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T20:31:07","slug":"google-froze-its-open-source-bug-bounty-program-due-to-a-significant-rise-in-ai-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/04\/google-froze-its-open-source-bug-bounty-program-due-to-a-significant-rise-in-ai-submissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a \u2018significant rise\u2019 in AI submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/google-froze-its-open-source-bug-bounty-program-due-to-a-significant-rise-in-ai-submissions.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blaming a \u201csignificant rise\u201d in AI submissions, Google has paused its open source bug bounty program until next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, TechCrunch reported that cybersecurity experts were warning of that AI slop posed a serious risk to bug bounty programs. Looks like that\u2019s the issue confronting Google\u2019s Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program, where researchers were rewarded for finding vulnerabilities in the company\u2019s open source software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In posts on X and the program website, Google said the bug bounty program was paused as of October 1, with a promise to provide \u201can update\u201d in the first quarter of 2027. According to Tom\u2019s Hardware, Google engineers and open source maintainers were overwhelmed by reports that were invalid or contained hallucinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis pause is due to a significant rise in automated submissions, the vast majority of which are not valid,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, participants are encouraged to consider Google\u2019s other bug bounty programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/google-froze-its-open-source-bug-bounty-program-due-to-a-significant-rise-in-ai-submissions.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blaming a \u201csignificant rise\u201d in AI submissions, Google has paused its open source bug bounty program until next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, TechCrunch reported that cybersecurity experts were warning of that AI slop posed a serious risk to bug bounty programs. Looks like that\u2019s the issue confronting Google\u2019s Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program, where researchers were rewarded for finding vulnerabilities in the company\u2019s open source software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In posts on X and the program website, Google said the bug bounty program was paused as of October 1, with a promise to provide \u201can update\u201d in the first quarter of 2027. According to Tom\u2019s Hardware, Google engineers and open source maintainers were overwhelmed by reports that were invalid or contained hallucinations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis pause is due to a significant rise in automated submissions, the vast majority of which are not valid,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, participants are encouraged to consider Google\u2019s other bug bounty programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3492056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3492055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3492055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3492056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techingeek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}