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AI slop submissions force Google to freeze its open-source bug bounty

Reported by Help Net Security (Sinisa Markovic)

Summary by Cyber Security News5 Oct 2026, 09:37 CET

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Google has stopped accepting new product vulnerability reports through its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP), after a wave of invalid, AI-generated submissions swamped the engineers and open source maintainers who review them.

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