{"id":241567,"date":"2026-05-05T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/google-now-offers-up-to-1-5-million-for-some-android-exploits\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:20:11","slug":"google-now-offers-up-to-1-5-million-for-some-android-exploits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/google-now-offers-up-to-1-5-million-for-some-android-exploits\/","title":{"rendered":"Google now offers up to $1.5 million for some Android exploits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google now offers up to $1.5 million for some Android exploits<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/google-now-offers-up-to-15-million-for-some-android-exploits\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-05 07:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.bleepingcomputer.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Google overhauls its Android and Chrome vulnerability rewards programs, offering bounties of up to $1.5 million for the most difficult exploits while scaling back payouts for flaws that artificial intelligence (AI) has made easier to find.<\/p>\n

The top reward of $1.5 million is reserved for zero-click Pixel Titan M2 security chip full-chain exploits with persistence, the most technically demanding attack scenario in the program, while the same exploits, but without persistence, are also eligible for up to $750,000.<\/p>\n

On the Google Chrome side, full-chain browser process exploits on up-to-date operating systems and hardware now come with rewards of up\u00a0to $250,000, plus an additional $250,128 bonus for successfully exploiting MiraclePtr-protected memory allocations.<\/p>\n

“We know that certain particularly impactful exploits remain incredibly difficult to achieve and we’ve greatly appreciated collaborating with the researcher community to discover and unearth them,” Google said.<\/p>\n

“We want to build on this partnership by continuing to emphasize the highest tiers of rewards across both Android and Chrome.”<\/p>\n

For the Chrome program, Google shifts its focus to concise reports containing only bug proofs and essential artifacts, rather than lengthy written analyses that AI can now generate automatically.<\/p>\n

The Android program will also narrow its focus to Linux kernel vulnerabilities in Google-maintained components, unless researchers can demonstrate concrete exploitability on Android devices.<\/p>\n

“While AI has made it effortless to produce lengthy, detailed write-ups, our internal tooling has also evolved to help us automatically explain and suggest fixes for bugs,” the company added.<\/p>\n

This vulnerability rewards program restructuring follows a record year for Google’s bug bounty effort, with the company paying $17.1 million to 747 researchers in 2025, a more than 40 percent increase from 2024 and an all-time high.<\/p>\n

This has brought the total payouts since the program…<\/p>\n

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