White Hat Hacker
HackerOne paid $81 million in bug bounties over the past year
Bug bounty platform HackerOne has paid $81 million in rewards to white-hat hackers worldwide over the past 12 months. HackerOne manages over 1,950 bug bounty programs and provides vulnerability disclosure, penetration testing, and code security services to many organizations. Its list of customers includes high-profile companies such as Anthropic, Crypto.com, General Motors, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, […]
EncryptHub’s dual life: Cybercriminal vs Windows bug-bounty researcher
EncryptHub, a notorious threat actor linked to breaches at 618 organizations, is believed to have reported two Windows zero-day vulnerabilities to Microsoft, revealing a conflicted figure straddling the line between cybercrime and security research. The reported vulnerabilities are CVE-2025-24061 (Mark of the Web bypass) and CVE-2025-24071 (File Explorer spoofing), which Microsoft addressed during the March 2025 Patch Tuesday updates, acknowledging the […]