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Bug bounty submissions quadruple in three weeks

development2026-05-18

Claim

Bug bounty programs are drowning in AI-generated vulnerability reports, with one platform seeing submissions quadruple in three weeks, while Linus Torvalds called the Linux kernel's security mailing list almost entirely unmanageable under duplicate reports.

Reported metric: 4x in 3 weeks

Reporting date: 2026-05-18 (not necessarily the event date)

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Bugcrowd

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A bug bounty pauses submissions because discovery got too cheap

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Bug bounty submissions quadruple in three weeks
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-05-18
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-18-bug-bounties-drown-in-machine-reports
Claim: Bug bounty programs are drowning in AI-generated vulnerability reports, with one platform seeing submissions quadruple in three weeks, while Linus Torvalds called the Linux kernel's security mailing list almost entirely unmanageable under duplicate reports.
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- Welcome to May 18, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-18-2026
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