{"slug": "intel-appears-to-end-its-bug-bounty-program", "title": "Intel Appears to End Its Bug Bounty Program", "summary": "Intel suspended its paid bug bounty program on Intigriti, which had offered awards ranging from $500 to $100,000 USD for hardware, software, firmware, and open-source vulnerabilities, and launched a replacement program as of yesterday that carries no bounties. The new Intigriti listing states, \"This is a responsible disclosure program without bounties.\" Intel gave no official reason for the change, though the shift comes as the Linux kernel and other open-source projects face a surge of security reports generated by AI and LLMs.", "body_md": "# Intel Appears To End Its Bug Bounty Program\n\nAmid a boom of bug reporting in general due to AI/LLMs across the entire software ecosystem, Intel this week appears to have ended its paid bug bounty program. They have (re)launched a new bug reporting program but with the bounties removed.\n\nA Phoronix reader wrote in this morning after noticing that Intel ended their existing bug bounty program and then launched a new program sans with any paid bounties for reporting bugs. Intigriti has been Intel's provider for hosting their bug bounty program that covers both their hardware and software products as well as firmware, Intel open-source projects, and more. The Intel bug bounty program had provided awards ranging from $500 up to $100,000 USD.\n\nIntel's existing bug bounty program, including what's linked to from\n\nThe page also removes a lot of the former information from the program. Those curious can find a lot of the prior information on Intel's bug bounty program from the\n\nIn turn, as of yesterday, Intel launched\n\n\"This is a responsible disclosure program without bounties.\"\n\nNo official word on the reason for this bug bounty program change, but at the time when the Linux kernel and other open-source projects are being bombarded with security reports from AI/LLMs, it wouldn't surprise me the least if that had something to do with this change.\n\nA Phoronix reader wrote in this morning after noticing that Intel ended their existing bug bounty program and then launched a new program sans with any paid bounties for reporting bugs. Intigriti has been Intel's provider for hosting their bug bounty program that covers both their hardware and software products as well as firmware, Intel open-source projects, and more. The Intel bug bounty program had provided awards ranging from $500 up to $100,000 USD.\n\nIntel's existing bug bounty program, including what's linked to from\n\n[Intel.com](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security/security-practices/vulnerability-management/bug-bounty-program.html)for its security reporting program, on[Intigriti](https://app.intigriti.com/programs/intel/intel/preview/detail)now shows their bug bounty program has been \"suspended\".\nThe page also removes a lot of the former information from the program. Those curious can find a lot of the prior information on Intel's bug bounty program from the\n\n[Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20241217221132/https://app.intigriti.com/programs/intel/intel/detail).\nIn turn, as of yesterday, Intel launched\n\n[a new bug bounty program](https://app.intigriti.com/programs/intel/intelvulnerabilitydisclosureprogram/detail)on Intigriti but there are no bounties:\n\"This is a responsible disclosure program without bounties.\"\n\nNo official word on the reason for this bug bounty program change, but at the time when the Linux kernel and other open-source projects are being bombarded with security reports from AI/LLMs, it wouldn't surprise me the least if that had something to do with this change.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/intel-appears-to-end-its-bug-bounty-program", "canonical_source": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Bug-Bounty-Program-Ends", "published_at": "2026-09-18 21:29:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-18 21:55:20.407689+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Intel", "Intigriti", "Phoronix", "Linux kernel", "Wayback Machine"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/intel-appears-to-end-its-bug-bounty-program", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/intel-appears-to-end-its-bug-bounty-program.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/intel-appears-to-end-its-bug-bounty-program.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/intel-appears-to-end-its-bug-bounty-program.jsonld"}}