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TechCrunch · October 5, 2026 · On the brief until October 19, 2026

Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions

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THE AI ANGLE
Generating hallucinated vulnerability reports that overwhelmed maintainers

Google paused its open source bug bounty program after automated AI submissions overwhelmed review teams with invalid reports and hallucinations. Security researchers cannot submit vulnerabilities to this specific program until Google releases an update in 2027. Those in the field must rely on other bounty programs while triage teams cope with automated report floods.

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The pause highlights the tension between automated vulnerability discovery and the labor required for human maintainers to verify hallucinated findings.

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