2026-11-04 · Fonte：Tom's Hardware
The chipmaker's Intigriti-hosted bug bounty, which offered as much as $100,000 per vulnerability, now appears suspended, replaced by a disclosure program that pays researchers nothing.
Intel's bug bounty program, hosted on the vulnerability-disclosure platform Intigriti, now displays a suspended status. In its place, the chipmaker has introduced a new disclosure program on the same platform — one that pays no rewards. The change effectively retires a scheme that paid security researchers as much as $100,000 for reporting a single flaw.
Bug bounty programs are a fixture of corporate security strategy: companies invite outside researchers to probe their products and pay for qualifying vulnerability reports, with rewards typically scaled to severity. Intel's program operated at a notably high ceiling, offering up to $100,000 per flaw — a sum that gave even a single well-placed report the potential to be life-changing for an independent researcher.
Under the new arrangement, researchers who report issues through Intel's Intigriti presence retain a channel for coordinated disclosure, but no monetary compensation is attached. The practical effect is stark: the financial incentive that once accompanied a report to Intel — as much as six figures for a single qualifying bug — is gone under the current setup.
The report did not indicate a reason for the suspension, whether the bounty program might be reinstated, or how long the suspended status has been displayed. For researchers, the calculus now shifts: time spent hunting flaws in Intel products no longer carries the prospect of a payout through this route. For enterprises that deploy Intel-based systems, the change touches the disclosure pipeline through which silicon and platform vulnerabilities are reported, triaged and ultimately patched.
Whether a no-reward model can sustain the same level of external scrutiny that a six-figure bounty attracted is the open question hanging over the switch — and one that will shape how, and how quickly, Intel hears about its next serious flaw.
Tags: Intel · Intigriti · Bug Bounty · Cybersecurity · Vulnerability Disclosure · Chip Security
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