
Meta Shares Top Muse AI Agent Bug Bounty Findings Reaching $1.2 Million
Meta paid $1.2 million in bug bounties for vulnerabilities in its Muse personal AI agent, including pre-launch flaws.
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Meta paid $1.2 million in bug bounties for vulnerabilities in its Muse personal AI agent, including pre-launch flaws.

OpenAI has increased critical vulnerability payouts to $30k with exceptional findings up to $100k reaching $172k total.

OpenAI quadrupled midpoints for critical vulnerabilities in ChatGPT, Codex and API with bonuses up to $172,000 and a five-tier loyalty program.

According to HackerOne CEO Kara Sprague, humans excel at assessing business consequences of flaws while AI finds vulnerabilities at scale

Google offers $250,000 for researchers to demonstrate complete administrative takeover of arbitrary projects or organizations without prior access.

The sprint pairs OpenAI models with Cathedral Systems researchers to continuously test and strengthen defenses while raising critical bug bounty rewards.
Exceptional critical findings stay eligible for $100,000, or up to $172,000 with bonuses.
OpenAI says critical bug-bounty rewards more than quadrupled and pledges $1 billion in subsidized Daybreak access over six months.

New tier rewards researchers for proving full administrative control over Google Cloud organizations without prior access.

Curl ended its paid bounty on January 31, 2026 after confirmed findings fell below 5%, then later recovered near 15%.

Parameter reported the P1 issue on October 18; OpenAI fixed both web frontends by October 26 and paid $5,000.

A Five9 engineer who won SentinelOne's Sentinels League argues CTFs still build judgment as AI crowds out junior roles.

Validated WordPress plugin and theme flaws are disclosed to vendors and can get firewall coverage.

Anthropic says sales, HR, and IT data were exposed, but Claude chats, source code, and weights were not.

HackerOne participants must get code execution on PHP 8.5.11, read a resetting flag, and privately report a distinct bypass.

Xint recovered raw traces from gpt-4.1 and gpt-4o via compaction and tab substitution; OpenAI confirmed, mitigated, and paid a bounty.

Agents used unnamed third-party software to reach sales, HR, and IT data; prompts, source code, and model weights were not accessed.
The wallet is reachable by the PHP user through a print-flag binary, and operators say all traffic is logged.

Approved researchers get a 12-month loaner iPhone with shell access, custom entitlements, and kernel changes.

GitHub spotlight researcher r31n who improves skills through validation and proof of concepts on GitHub Enterprise.

Claroc enumerated 6,800 links from passive DNS; Meta has paused sharing while it reviews the report.

Pentera Apps pairs a model that chooses tests with code that logs, pauses, and stops every action, and ships replayable exploit scripts.

From October 20, complete critical RCE or privilege-escalation reports can pay $40,000, versus $4,000 if incomplete.

Reports filed on or after October 20, 2026, at 8 AM Pacific need a PoC and exploitability details to count as Complete.
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