Google increased its reward for found vulnerabilities in Android

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Google has increased the amount of compensation for found vulnerabilities in the Android operating system, as no one researcher found no insecurity, corresponding to the highest reward. This was said on the Android Developers blog.

The amount of remuneration for Point the remote chain of exploits and exploits leading to the loading system has quadrupled to $ 200,000. The size of compensation for a remote exploit found in the nucleus of the Android system, the company increased from $ 30,000 to $ 150,000.

Google also announced that for the second year of the program, she received more than 450 vulnerability reports. In 2016, the average income of each researcher grew by 52.3%, and the total amount paid increased to $ 1.1 million.

Award was given to 115 people in 2016. The average amount of compensation was $ 2150. Google promised that the size of payments will continue to grow. The company hopes to encourage researchers to spend more time trying to hack into Android.

Since the launch of Android Security Rewards program in 2015 Google paid security researchers more than $ 1.5 million. In May 2017, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the number of active Android devices worldwide reached 2 billion pieces per month.