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AI helps Microsoft bug hunters chase a record $20M payday

  • Connor Jones--Theregister.com
  • published date: 2026-08-04 14:40:49 UTC

Broader bounty rules added to a swelling volume of machine-assisted vulnerability reports

Microsoft announced this week that between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, the company had paid more than $20 million in bug bounties to 562 researchers. The total was a Redmond record, as was the … [+3429 chars]