Calling all bug bounty hunters - Google has expanded its challenge to V8 and Cloud

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Looking to put your bug hunting skills to good use and earn yourself a pretty penny in the process?

Google has launched its latest bounty challenge rewarding participants for discovering bugs and exploiting vulnerabilities in Chrome’s v8 JavaScript and Google Cloud.

The 0-day Lottery

As part of Google’s standard Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP), lucky hunters can bag themselves tens of thousands of dollars for discovering and demonstrating the severity of a security vulnerability in any Google or Alphabet subsidiary.

Rewards are offered in the discovery of both known and new vulnerabilities, known as n-day and 0-day vulnerabilities respectively, with rewards available from both the VRP and the v8CTF reward program, with the latter offering $10,000 for each 0-day discovery and exploitation.

“We want to learn from the security community to understand how they will approach this challenge. If you’re successful, you’ll not only earn a reward, but you’ll also help us make our products more secure for everyone. This is also a good opportunity to learn about technologies and gain hands-on experience exploiting them,” Google software engineers Stephen Roettger and Marios Pomonis stated in the Google security blog.

Via Infosecurity Magazine

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