{"id":1008748,"date":"2026-05-19T11:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008748"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:49:20","slug":"how-ai-is-ruining-bug-bounty-programs-wherein-tech-companies-pay-millions-of-dollars-for-finding-flaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/how-ai-is-ruining-bug-bounty-programs-wherein-tech-companies-pay-millions-of-dollars-for-finding-flaws\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI is ruining bug bounty programs wherein tech companies pay millions of dollars for finding flaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For several years, the world\u2019s biggest tech companies have relied on a simple, highly effective security strategy: pay friendly, independent hackers millions of dollars to find and report flaws in their software before cybercriminals can exploit them. As AI becomes sophisticated, that entire ecosystem is facing a massive crisis. According to a report, Generative AI tools are flooding these \u201cbug bounty\u201d programs with a relentless wave of automated, low-quality, and completely fake reports \u2013 forcing some organisations to shut down their payout programs entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Why cybersecurity companies are frustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years, the world\u2019s biggest tech companies have relied on a simple, highly effective security strategy: pay friendly, independent hackers millions of dollars to find and report flaws in their software before cybercriminals can exploit them. As AI becomes sophisticated, that entire ecosystem is facing a massive crisis. According to a report, Generative AI tools are flooding these \u201cbug bounty\u201d programs with a relentless wave of automated, low-quality, and completely fake reports \u2013 forcing some organisations to shut down their payout programs entirely. Why cybersecurity companies are frustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008749,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008748\/revisions\/1008749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}