{"id":233205,"date":"2026-03-13T03:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/google-paid-17-1-million-for-vulnerability-reports-in-2025"},"modified":"2026-03-13T03:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:35:19","slug":"google-paid-17-1-million-for-vulnerability-reports-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/google-paid-17-1-million-for-vulnerability-reports-in-2025","title":{"rendered":"Google paid $17.1 million for vulnerability reports in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-paid-17-1-million-for-vulnerability-reports-in-2025.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google paid over $17 million to 747 security researchers who reported security bugs through its Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP) in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it has awarded over $81.6 million in bug bounties since the first Vulnerability Reward Program <a href=\"https:\/\/security.googleblog.com\/2010\/11\/rewarding-web-application-security.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">went live in 2010<\/a>, while the highest reward paid last year was of $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur VRP once again confirmed the ongoing value of engaging with the external security research community to make Google and its products safer,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/bughunters.google.com\/blog\/google-vrps-in-review-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google paid over $17 million to 747 security researchers who reported security bugs through its Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP) in 2025. The company says it has awarded over $81.6 million in bug bounties since the first Vulnerability Reward Program went live in 2010, while the highest reward paid last year was of $250,000. \u201cOur VRP [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}