Google to pay up to $1.5 million for zero-click Pixel Titan M exploits

2026-05-05T14:51:51Zfa7702fd110e6226c57c96ffba0b4c2409b11d1c3a610838abb9062e49a17b99
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What happened

This feed covers multiple security developments: Google raised top bounties to $1.5M for zero-click, full-chain Pixel exploits (targeting Titan M2) and adjusted rewards to prioritize researcher-driven, hard-to-automate findings. Microsoft disclosed a large phishing campaign using fake compliance notices that targeted >35,000 users across 13,000 organizations to harvest credentials and enable account takeovers. ESET linked a long-running supply-chain/backdoor operation on a Korea-focused gaming platform to ScarCruft (APT37), used to spy on ethnic Koreans in China. Oracle will begin monthly CSPU

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