Posted by Sarah Jacobus, Vulnerability Rewards Team Last year, we again witnessed the power of community-driven security efforts as researchers from around the world contributed to help us identify and address thousands of vulnerabilities in our products and services. Working with our dedicated bug hunter community, we awarded $10 million to our 600+ researchers based in 68 countries. New Resources and Improvements Just like every year, 2023 brought a series of changes and improvements to our vulnerability reward programs: Through our new Bonus Awards program, we now periodically offer time-limited, extra rewards for reports to specific VRP targets. We expanded our exploit reward program to Chrome and Cloud through the launch of v8CTF, a CTF focused on V8, the JavaScript engine that powers Chrome. We launched Mobile VRP which focuses…