Zero Day Initiative Bug Hunters Rake in $1.5M in 2019

guest · Jan 31, 2020

Zero Day Initiative Bug Hunters Rake in $1.5M in 2019
January 31, 2020
https://threatpost.com/zero-day-initiative-bug-hunters-15m-2019/152435/

Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) awarded more than $1.5 million in cash and prizes to bug-hunters throughout 2019, it said, resulting in 1,035 security vulnerability advisories for the year.
Most of those advisories (88 percent) were published in conjunction with a patch from the vendor, Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) noted – just 127 were not.

The pace of bug discovery looks to stay steady. ZDI, a division of Trend Micro, announced that already, as of the end of January, it bounty program has published 154 advisories for 2020, affecting products from Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft and others.

“In years past, many of the Microsoft bugs we purchased were browser related,” Gorenc said. “We’re still buying plenty of those, but this year saw an increase in bugs affecting the OS as well. In particular, we had an increase in bugs impacting font parsing – both in the kernel and in the GDI+ library. The JET database engine also proved to be a popular target for researchers.”
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