Valve awards CSGO hacker thousands for finding in-game exploits ValveThe Counter-Strike: Global Offensive community were shocked to see Valve payout a major bounty to a hacker for finding exploits in their game. Companies throughout major markets will routinely enlist what are called \u201cwhite hat hackers\u201d or \u201cethical hackers\u201d to rummage through their backend systems to find major flaws or exploits which they would then report. The practice makes it easier for developers to close any potential loopholes or unintended effect on their product that could pose a threat if a malicious hacker or otherwise happens to come across the vulnerability. This is why you report CS:GO Bugs instead of abuse them My man @2Eggsss got awarded a total of $11250 in bounties from Valve via HackerOne for reporting critical bugs, which have been patched and solved. Don’t abuse, report instead. https:\/\/t.co\/RGlR9a3z3p \u2014 Haci (@DonHaci) October 8, 2019 One such ethical hacker was surprised to see his work being blasted on the GlobalOffensive subreddit after helping Valve squash bugs they found in the game. \u201cThis is why you report CS:GO Bugs instead of abuse them,\u201d Twitter user \u2018DonHaci\u2019 said. \u201cMy man 2Eggsss got awarded a total of $11250 in bounties from Valve via HackerOne for reporting critical bugs, which have been patched and solved.\u201d Yay, I was awarded a $9,750 bounty on @Hacker0x01! https:\/\/t.co\/X4SsLrOUUx #TogetherWeHitHarder \u2014 2Eggs :soon: Cologne 2020 (@2Eggsss) October 8, 2019 The hacker named \u20182Eggs\u2019 helped Valve on two separate occasions with major payouts of $9,750 and $1,500 for their services in reporting the bugs. The exact nature of the bugs 2Eggs found and reported don\u2019t seem to be publicly disclosed, which would make sense seeing as they\u2019re probably a vulnerability that Valve might not want to let general audiences know about. Many onlookers were stunned to see Valve actually pay people for finding exploits, but the company actually has a long list of what\u2019s in their \u201cscope\u201d for exploits as well as a huge backlog of previous disbursements to hackers. While there\u2019s apparently a lot of money to be made looking for bugs in Valve\u2019s systems, it\u2019s not a simple task to take on. In a March 15 public case, Valve paid out $18,000 to a group of hackers who gave a thoroughly detailed report on an issue with a \u2018Severity\u2019 level of 9.6 out of what seems to be a 10-rated scale. 600The report is rife with detailed explanations of how to replicate the hack, where in the code to find it, the impact it could have if \u201can attacker\u201d found it, and a lot more. It\u2019s safe to assume Valve likes to keep its products, including CSGO, clean from harmful exploits \u2013 making the work of 2Eggs and others incredibly appreciated by fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valve awards CSGO hacker thousands for finding in-game exploits ValveThe Counter-Strike: Global Offensive community were shocked to see Valve payout a major bounty to a hacker for finding exploits in their game. Companies throughout major markets will routinely enlist what are called \u201cwhite hat hackers\u201d or \u201cethical hackers\u201d to rummage through their backend systems to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}