The Giant company Google has made all techy brains surprised by announcing a reward money of $200,000 for the person who will succeed in finding a new bug in Android. The upgrade in the reward money took place after the news of Judy malware came. Judy attack consisted of number of infected applications that resides on Play Store and later could install adware on user device. It was been said that around 40 application were infected
From past 2 years, Google is running this reward program and till now $1.5 million has been given to the winners. The main motive of this reward program is to find the bug so that any type of cyber attack can be stopped easily and prevent from a heavy loss.
Reward Upgrades:
This bounty program is divided into different levels depending on seriousness of bugs. The first level reward to find bugs that could allow attackers to steal data was $30,000 and now the reward money has been increased upto 5 times. The second level includes Trust Zone bugs and Verified Boot. Verified Boot ensures that phone’s software is not affected whereas Trust Zone covers fingerprint scan, biometric data, security software, system settings and more. The previous reward for these bugs was $50,000 which has now upgraded to $200,000
Note: Reward for remote exploit chain or Exploit leading to TrustZone or Verified Boot increases from $50,000 to $200,000. Reward for remote kernel exploit increase from $30,000 to $150,000.
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