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AI is accelerating the discovery of software vulnerabilities, but it is also creating a new bottleneck for defenders: deciding which machine-generated findings warrant investigation. Google has decided to temporarily stop accepting certain bug bounty submissions after a surge of largely invalid automated reports highlights a growing challenge for security teams as AI-driven vulnerability discovery
Google’s bug bounty pause highlights growing AI vulnerability triage challengeae185ed18ad590dedfaf6dd5e0e80ec58aba0ae17665c314f56e11fec6fde841Network indicators are visibly defanged. This page does not make them clickable or send them to another service.
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