{"id":254883,"date":"2026-05-25T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/the-ai-era-is-creating-a-bug-hunting-arms-race\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T13:50:08","slug":"the-ai-era-is-creating-a-bug-hunting-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/the-ai-era-is-creating-a-bug-hunting-arms-race\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-ai-era-is-creating-a-bug-hunting-arms-race\/\">The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-ai-era-is-creating-a-bug-hunting-arms-race\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-ai-era-is-creating-a-bug-hunting-arms-race\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 06:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wired.com\">www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cNation state issues are very serious and very real, but criminal actors still make up the vast majority of incidents that organizations deal with and many of those incidents are quite serious,\u201d Hultquist adds. \u201cZero-day use by criminal actors has been fairly limited, and the ones that do use them tend to be really successful, so I think we shouldn\u2019t underestimate the impact of more criminals with a zero day in their hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">For researchers making money through bug hunting, though, times are changing. The command-line tool Curl ended its bug bounty program (run through third-party service HackerOne) in January after being inundated with low-quality submissions generated by AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cWe have concluded the hard way that a bug bounty gives people too strong incentives to find and make up \u2018problems\u2019 in bad faith that cause overload and abuse,\u201d the group wrote at the time, adding that \u201cwe still appreciate and value valid vulnerability reports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Last week, Linux creator and lead developer Linus Torvalds wrote that the famed Linux security mailing list has become \u201calmost entirely unmanageable\u201d because of high volume and duplicate AI bug reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In April, though, Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of Curl, said in a LinkedIn post that the quality of submissions had improved. \u201cOver the last few months, we have stopped getting AI slop security reports in the curl project,\u201d he wrote. \u201cInstead we get an ever-increasing amount of really good security reports, almost all done with the help of AI. They&#8217;re submitted in a never-before seen frequency and put us under serious load.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">And at the end of April, Google announced that it was overhauling its Vulnerability Reward Programs for Chrome and Android and lowering payouts for some classes of bugs, while increasing others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cAs the security research landscape evolves with AI, we&#8217;re making changes in our programs to ensure we&#8217;re rewarding the most challenging and impactful vulnerabilities in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-ai-era-is-creating-a-bug-hunting-arms-race\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-ai-era-is-creating-a-bug-hunting-arms-race\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-25 06:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/6a0e3a04aa8901b570a25720\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/security_bug_gettyimages.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,27],"class_list":["post-254883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254885,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254883\/revisions\/254885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}