{"id":244937,"date":"2026-10-06T01:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/google-halts-open-source-bug-bounty-program-amid-ai-spam-surge"},"modified":"2026-10-06T01:32:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:32:21","slug":"google-halts-open-source-bug-bounty-program-amid-ai-spam-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/google-halts-open-source-bug-bounty-program-amid-ai-spam-surge","title":{"rendered":"Google halts open-source bug bounty program amid AI spam surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-halts-open-source-bug-bounty-program-amid-ai-spam-surge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google has now suspended submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) after being flooded by AI-generated reports.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s OSS VRP incentivizes security researchers to responsibly disclose security flaws across open-source projects maintained by Google, including Golang, Angular, Bazel, Protocol Buffers, Fuchsia, and critical third-party dependencies, as well as repository settings like GitHub actions, application configurations, and access control rules.<\/p>\n<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/google\/google-launches-open-source-software-bug-bounty-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">launched the OSS VRP<\/a> in August 2022 with rewards ranging from $100 to $31,337, and noted that the program would focus on security flaws with the most significant impact on the software supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has now suspended submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) after being flooded by AI-generated reports. The company\u2019s OSS VRP incentivizes security researchers to responsibly disclose security flaws across open-source projects maintained by Google, including Golang, Angular, Bazel, Protocol Buffers, Fuchsia, and critical third-party dependencies, as well as repository settings [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244937","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=244937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}