Are you a bug bounty hunters? Here is a good news for.
You can get paid up to $40,000 for finding and reporting critical vulnerabilities in the websites and mobile applications owned by Facebook. You have to find the flaws that could allow cyber attackers to hack any user account.
In the latest post on the Facebook page, the social networking giant announced to encourage security researchers and bug bounty hunters. They can help Facebook to fix issues before hackers exploit them.
What is the announcement says?
According to the blog post, cybersecurity researchers who find security vulnerabilities in any products or services owned by Facebook, like Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus, that can lead to a full account takeover This may be accessed tokens leakage or the ability to access users’ valid sessions, will be rewarded an average bounty of:
- $40,000 reward—if user interaction is not required at all
- $25,000 reward—if minimum user interaction is required
Facebook said, “We encourage researchers to share their proof of concept reports with us without having to also discover bypasses for Facebook defense mechanisms”.
“By increasing the award for account takeover vulnerabilities and decreasing the technical overhead necessary to be eligible for bug bounty, we hope to encourage an even larger number of high-quality submissions from our existing and new white hat researchers to help us secure over 2 billion users.”
Here is the official post of Facebook.
In recent years Facebook has paid out millions of dollars to white hat hackers under its bug bounty program. The hackers who have reported, helping Facebook to fix them.
Recently a data breach in Facebook allowed attackers to gather personal information of around 30 million Facebook users. They have stolen access tokens with the help of exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in its “View As” feature.
If you find any vulnerability in Facebook-owned platforms as mentioned above and report it to the company, then you can get the amount. Just head to this link for bug bounty program.
