Development

A bug bounty pauses submissions because discovery got too cheap

development2026-04-07

Claim

The Internet Bug Bounty program paused new submissions because AI-assisted vulnerability discovery became too cheap to price.

Reporting date: 2026-04-07 (not necessarily the event date)

Sources

Attribution and reporting linked by this record; links do not imply independent verification.

Welcome to April 7, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Knowledge graphopen in browser →

Reported in

Welcome to April 7, 2026

Evidence for

Supersedes

Offensive cyber autonomy doubles every 5.7 months

Referenced by

Cite or correct this record

Citation formatCitation text

A bug bounty pauses submissions because discovery got too cheap
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-04-07
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-04-07-bug-bounty-pauses-submissions
Claim: The Internet Bug Bounty program paused new submissions because AI-assisted vulnerability discovery became too cheap to price.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to April 7, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-april-7-2026
This citation does not imply independent verification of linked-source claims.

Suggest a correction — opens a GitHub draft for you to review and submit.