Just finding the security bug is paid by Google, Vietnamese white hat hackers can join

Recently, a series of applications with hundreds of millions of downloads on Google Play were found to have malicious code embedded inside the application itself, which did not allow or known to make many users feel bewildered. This has led Google to take more drastic measures to solve these serious cases.

Recently, the technology company has introduced a series of major changes with the program "bug hunting to receive" Google Play Security Reward Program (GPSRP).

The most important change to GPSRP, Google will award a bonus of up to $ 30,000 for developers to discover security issues in applications that have more than 100 million downloads on the Play Store instead of 8 applications. as big as the company before.

In the event that security researchers find security holes in a common application but are not in the bounty program, Google will notify the identified vulnerabilities to the affected application developer and conduct payment.

For applications that are part of a "bug-hunting" program, security researchers can receive bonuses from both Google and the app developer.

This change by Google aims to encourage security researchers to be more actively involved in detecting, reporting serious security errors and limiting the sale of information about security vulnerabilities to newsgroups. dangerous hackers.

Currently, there have been some famous application developers such as Grammarly, Livestream, Priceline, Shopify, Showmax, Spotify, Sweatcoin and Zomato . participating in this new "bug-hunting" program of Google.

1. Android 10 still has 193 security flaws that need to be resolved before launching on September 1
2. Detected 205 malicious apps with more than 32 million downloads on Google Play in just the past July