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AI-Led Remediation Crisis Prompts HackerOne to Pause Bug Bounties

ID: 89115785-7357-56a6-a73a-06979c67f994

STIX ID: report--89115785-7357-56a6-a73a-06979c67f994

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Date Published: 2026-04-08

Date Updated: 2026-04-22

Author: Jai Vijayan

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HackerOne paused new submissions to its Internet Bug Bounty program after AI-assisted tools massively increased the volume of vulnerability reports, creating a remediation bottleneck for volunteer-driven open-source projects; the article covers industry reactions, triage fatigue, declines in valid findings due to AI “slop,” and calls for new incentive models and funding to prioritize fixes over sheer discovery.

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