AI-Generated Junk Reports Are Overwhelming Bug Bounty Programs

Japanese security teams are drowning in AI-generated vulnerability reports that waste analyst time and degrade the signal in bug bounty programs — an early and concrete example of agents spamming reward systems.

Bug bounty programs, which pay security researchers for finding software vulnerabilities, are being flooded with AI-generated junk reports, as @itmedia_news reported. The problem is particularly acute in Japan, where security teams are describing the influx as exhausting and counterproductive.

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