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To celebrate 10 years of
@google
's Vulnerability Rewards Programs, we are excited to announce the launch of our new platform: !
Learn more about the platform and enhancements to our VRP program here:
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Google CTF Beginners Quest 2021 is on!
?!:)
Go! Now! You have the fate of the world in your hands!
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We opensourced most of the Google CTF 2018 Finals challenges:
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Get ready for the 2021 Google CTF! Runs for 48 hours, starting Saturday, July 17, 00:01 UTC! Details:
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Bug of the Week! Improper Regex validation allows Google-wide domain check bypasses - by
@xdavidhu
.
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YES, the Google CTF is happening soon! Check for details.
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Anyone knows what's the secret code? :) 50 left to go.
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Want to hack Google, but are stopped by protobuf formatting?
Try our new Burp Suite Protobuf extension today!
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Learn how to write fuzzers for Chrome and put your vulnerability rewards on autopilot with
@dor3s
and
@nedwilliamson
:
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New VRP program joins our family: Get rewards for finding vulns in our open source software!
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As an extension of our Vulnerability Rewards Program, we are introducing Bug Hunters University, a free tool to improve security skills. New content & videos will be added on an ongoing basis.
It is available through our new platform Bug Hunters:
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As a part of our new VRP platform launch () we are excited to announce that we will now have Bug Hunters swag available for special occassions.
Stay tuned for more information on what those are & how you can get your hands on some....
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The GCP VRP Prize winners are out! ☁️🏆🎉 Congrats to the fab 6. We can't wait to see what you all have in store for us this year – the submission form is open.
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We are excited to announce the new Mobile VRP! We are looking for bughunters to help us find and fix vulnerabilities in our mobile applications.
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5 elite security teams. 6 never-before-told-stories. Watch HACKING GOOGLE,
@Google
's new 6-part cybersecurity docuseries, featuring
@GoogleVRP
and friends →
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🦇 Sweet 🎃! Get up to 50337 USD for exploiting linux kernel vulns (and more if it works on Android!) 💸
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Security vulnerabilities discovered in the Android 13 Beta between 04/26/22 and 05/26/22 are eligible for a 50% bonus reward payout (up to a maximum of $1.5M for a full remote code execution exploit chain on the Titan M). Refer to Android rewards page for complete details.
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Bug of the week! DOM XSS in Gmail with a little help from Chrome by
@opnsec
:
May the 4th be with you
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Did you know that we leaked tokens that could compromise our Golang mirrors on GitHub? 😱
Since Google OSS VRP launch 3 months ago, we rewarded nearly $90K for bugs just like that one. Keep them coming!
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As we are wrapping up 2021, the Chrome VRP is pleased to announce the Top 20 Chrome VRP Researchers for this year. Congratulations and great work!
Thank you for your contributions and efforts over this past year in helping us make Chrome Browser and Chrome OS safe for all users!
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🚨💰 Google VRP Reward Update 💰🚨 Good news, we are significantly increasing the reward amounts offered by the Google VRP! Look out for up to 5x higher payouts and a maximum reward of $151,515! Details here:
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The
#GoogleCTF
is over. Thanks everyone for playing and we hope you've enjoyed it! We've uploaded the source code and writeups for most challenges here:
Now get ready for the Beginners Quest and for Hackceler8 (in Tokyo 🗼!)
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Security researchers: Get more money for
@GoogleChrome
bugs! We've updated our reward categories and amounts. Chrome OS and Play Store too!
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Bug hunters, rejoice! We've increased Google Mobile VRP rewards by up to 10x; combined with our new quality-based modifiers, this means we're offering rewards of up to $450,000 for your reports 💸💸💸.
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Ready for Google CTF 2019? Join us June 22/23 for 48 hours of 3p1c 1337 h4x1ng!
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One week to go.
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Learnings from 42 kernel exploits. The new kernelCTF. Responding to io_uring security problems.. and more!
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Security vulnerabilities discovered in the Android 12 Beta between 5/18/21 and 6/18/21 are eligible for a 50% bonus reward payout (up to a maximum of $1.5M for code execution on the Titan M) . Refer to for complete details and happy bug hunting! 🐞💰
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The best way to stop a hacker is to think like one. Countdown starts today.
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Thank you to all bug hunters for your creativity, curiosity, and dedication in 2020! You made the impossible possible – once again. We are proud and grateful to have you.
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This past weekend we had an amazing event. The Google CTF Finals 2022 which were ran as a game hacking competition we named
#Hackceler8
. We tried to bring under one roof some of the folks with the best hacking skills in the world and have them do/hack a videogame speedrun.
🧵1/N
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Bug of the Week! XSS in GMail’s
#amp4email
implementation via DOM Clobbering by
@SecurityMB
:
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Fancy some vuln reading/watching for the weekend? here's some awesome Cloud bugs!
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New reward tier for the Chrome VRP: memory corruption/RCE bugs in highly privileged processes, such as GPU or network process, can now earn you up to $7,000 for a baseline report, $10,000 for a high-quality report, & $15,000 for high-quality reports with a functional exploit!
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🏫🏫 From September 8th 15:00 UTC to October 8th 15:00 UTC we will award a 75% bonus to any valid vulnerabilities in . Rules:
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Looking for motivation to do some cloud security research? ☁️🔒 Let us remind you of the $313,337 we'll be giving out in total prizes this year to the top 6 bug reports in GCP.
More details:
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Until 1 December 2023, the first report of a functional full chain exploit in Chrome Browser is eligible for the Full Chain Exploit bonus – TRIPLE the FULL reward amount.
Not the first? Any following eligible full chain exploit receives DOUBLE rewards!
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Interested in security research? We want to hear from you! We’re relaunching the Google Bug Hunter University and want your input. Complete the survey to have your say:
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📢 Chrome VRP reward updates! 💰 Bigger payouts (up to 5x higher, $250,000+) and clearer guidelines, all designed to incentivize high-quality Chrome security research. Let's work together to make Chrome even safer! 🔐
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Alphabet's health and life sciences Bet, Verily, is in scope for the VRP! Check Verily domains and apps to get started:
*․verily․com
*․onduo․com
*․projectbaseline․com
com․verily․daybreak․nightlight
com․google․android․apps․baselinestudy
com․verily․myalo․scaleit
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Happy Monday! We are trying to be here for you in these unprecedented times.
#stayhome
#bughunter
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Curious to learn more about AI and its security implications? So are we!
We are happy to announce that , Google's AI chatbot, is now eligible for rewards under the Google Vulnerability Reward Program. We’re looking forward to your findings!
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We're excited to be sponsoring
#NahamCon2023
happening June 15-17th. It's virtual, free, and a great opportunity to learn the latest in bug hunting techniques, meet other security professionals, and earn prizes. Register now at !
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The Google CTF Finals 2023 are coming! Watch the best CTF teams compete in our custom video game tomorrow, Sunday, 1pm JST.
#Hackceler8
#GoogleCTF
#Gaming
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Did you know there is a legal fund that helps protect fellow bug hunters from legal threats? If you instruct us to donate your reward to the Security Research Legal Defense Fund, Google will quadruple it!
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BEGINNERS: Get ready to travel back in time!
This year our Google CTF Beginners Quest theme is "The History of Computing" where we'll let you go back and forth in time to explore technologies of the past up to modern days!
🕗🔙🕘
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📣📣📣 Calling all Google CTF players! Qualify for Hackceler8 2024 in Malaga by participating in our online CTF qualification round on June 21-23. Register your team now at . See our blog post for details.
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Announcing Secure Open Source () - a program to reward open source developers for proactive security improvements to critical open source projects and supporting infrastructure! 🆘🚨
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From June 1st 10:00 UTC to June 30th 10:00 UTC we will award a 75% bonus to any valid Gmail bug report. Get hacking!🤘 Rules:
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🔒 Exploiting memory corruption bugs in server-side software is no easy feat, especially when you're working blind without source code or binaries. See how we used a technique dubbed "Conditional Corruption" to achieve this.
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Google today announced it has extended its Open Source Vulnerabilities (OSV) database to incorporate data from additional open source projects, using a unified vulnerability schema.
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We will be at
@nullcon
Berlin this week! Come to our booth to hang out, play our shiny new CTF, and snatch cool prizes. 🏆🥳🪲👕
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From July 14th 5:00 UTC to August 14th 5:00 UTC we will award a 75% bonus to any valid vulnerabilities in YouTube Studio & ( - this is not ). Keep on hacking! 📺🤘 Rules:
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📯 Announcing the top Chrome VRP researchers for 2023: 📯
Congratulations to everyone on the list! 🥳
Many thanks and much gratitude to our entire Chrome VRP researcher community and helping us make Chrome Browser & Chromium more secure for all users!
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Oops!
@epereiralopez
discovered that our blog () has directory listing enabled for images, so he discovered our VRP blog post before we published it :)
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🕵️♂️ Bug hunters, is the vulnerability your dependency scanner reported really legit? 🤔 Don't let false positives fool you! Learn how to separate the real vulnerabilities from the noise in our latest blog post:
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Ever struggle with C++ buffer issues? Spatial Safety is one of the main root causes for in-the-wild exploits! Read more about how we piloted the LLVM proposal for C++ Buffer Hardening here:
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📯As we wrap up 2022, the Chrome VRP is pleased to announce the top Chrome VRP Researchers of 2022. Congratulations and great work!
Thank you for all your contributions and efforts over this past year & helping us make Chrome Browser and Chrome OS more secure for all users!
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Grab snacks and energy drinks, the
#GoogleCTF
is approaching fast! Team registration and Beginner's Quest will open tomorrow Friday 21 June 12:00 GMT at . We will start releasing the main CTF challenges on Sat 22 June 00:01 GMT. Have fun!
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Do you have experience security testing ML/AI – especially LLMs? Would you be interested in participating in a secret hackathon on this topic? 🤫
If yes, let us know by filling out this form.
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The Google CTF is over. Congratulations to pasten for the first place! (deja-vu?)
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Thank you all for another amazing year!
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Announcing New Patch Reward Program for
@Google
's Tsunami Security Scanner 🌊
Participants will receive patch rewards for providing novel Tsunami detection plugins & web application fingerprints.
Details → http://
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If you don't encrypt your data with a quantum-secure algorithm, an attacker who steals your data now will be able to decrypt it in as soon as a decade. See our threat model for this and other post-quantum cryptography risks.
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Want to know more about what security engineers at Google do on a daily basis? As an example, we're sharing details of a recent internal security review of Nomulus, and will look at the issues we identified and how we approach such reviews.
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We're excited to share some OSS-Fuzz program news, including a revamped rewards program and several new initiatives. Happy fuzzing!
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"'><script>alert(/Hello bug hunters/)</script>
We are now broadcasting live to you from
@GoogleVRP
. Follow us here for announcements, cool bugs (
#NiceCatch
!), conference buzz, CTFs, and more.
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Interested in Automotive Security? We want you to find vulnerabilities in Android Automotive OS! See on how to get an invite.
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Today and tomorrow, students from all over Japan join us at
@googlejapan
for init.g, a two-day workshop to share knowledge about security research, bug hunting and implementing defenses. These bright minds will help us make the Internet of tomorrow a safer place. :)
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🚫 DOM XSS, begone! 👋 Discover how we used Trusted Types to protect AppSheet, and how that can inform your own web application's journey to a safer security posture where DOM XSS vulnerabilities are a thing of the past.
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A couple weeks ago we invited our top bug hunters to a secret event called
#bugSWAT
in our Google offices in London. One of the presentations from
@epereiralopez
about Google Cloud Platform is now public, take a look!
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Gone hunting - be back in a few days! 😃🥚🐇🔎 🪹
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To quote one of our engineers who read your report "wow, this was a wild read". Amazing find
@rebane2001
new blogpost time!!
this one's a fun writeup on a vulnerability chain i found across multiple google services that earned me a $4133.70 bounty
lots of fun css as usual! i had to recreate a bunch of drive/docs/gmail/youtube UIs c:
have fun!
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We have been hiding a bunch of
#BountyCon
flags across our products and infrastructure (with more coming soon). Can you find them all?
@fbsecurity
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We're excited to announce increased rewards for Google Nest & Fitbit devices! For more information, check out our blog:
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Big news for bug hunters! We've added a new payment option 💰: select Bugcrowd in your profile on and profit from ⚡-fast and more flexible payouts. See our blog for details:
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Ever wondered how to increase your bug bounties 💸 ? Our latest blog post introduces our domain tiers security concept and how it is applied at Google, and includes a list of Google's highest sensitivity domains.
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133.7 days left before the end of 2019! Just enough to show some leet skills on the best vuln report for the 100k GCP Prize :)
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Day two is on! init.g workshops kicked-off with a Web Security theme at
@googlejapan
! <img src=init.g data-fun=yes load=alert(this['dataset'].fun)>
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Thank you to everyone who has helped spread the word & love for our new Bug Hunters Platform!
We'd be remiss if we did not shout out
@stinkstudios
for taking all of our wild ideas & turning them into reality!
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Are you interested in learning more about "Securely Hosting User Data in Modern Web Applications"? See our latest blog post for details!
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BOTW! Clickjacking in Google Docs allows recording of victim's voice conversations - by
@raushan_rajj
:
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The V8 Sandbox is now in scope for Chrome VRP for bypass submissions, meeting specific criteria, with rewards up to $5,000!
Please see the Chrome VRP rules [] for full submission criteria and eligibility details.
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Vulnerabilities in Android apps using the Exposure Notification API are now eligible for rewards via GPSRP; check out to learn more!
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Curious to learn more about ESCAL8, Google's annual security conference? See our blog post to find out what this event holds in store for seasoned bug hunters, aspiring security professionals, and experienced CTF players.
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