How digital bounty hunters search for software bugs—and money

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When you hear about a company offering money to people who search for vulnerabilities in their own code, here's what's going on.

for the discovery of a critical vulnerability that would have allowed attackers to double the amount of crypto they were withdrawing.

As of 2022, there are 300,000 people signed onto BugCrowd. While bounty hunters come in all shapes and sizes, Ellis says many of BugCrowd’s freelancers are young males, between 18-25, from places like India, South America, and the Philippines. “The numbers sound very large, but when you dig into the details, they’re actually not necessarily as large as they appear,” he says. In order to get Apple’s highest bug bounty, you’d need to find multiple vulnerabilities affecting different programs inside iOS. Not to mention that it isn’t clear if Apple has ever even awarded any of these very large bounties.

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