It Cost $40,000 To Find A Google Chrome Zero-Day Bug With AI

It Cost $40,000 To Find A Google Chrome Zero-Day Bug With AI

Google Awarded a $250,000 Bounty for a Full-chain Chrome Exploit Found Using GPT-5.6

XBOW says its security researchers earned a $250,000 reward from Google after building a full-chain Chrome exploit with AI agents. The team says the work took six days and about $40,000 in computing costs, using OpenAI’s publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol model. Google has fixed the flaws. XBOW disclosed the work on October 13, 2026. Its

XBOW Rewarded for Exploit Affecting a Billion Users

A single human researcher collaborating with AI agents built a three-vulnerability attack chain, earning Google’s first $250,000 Chrome full-chain reward of 2026, affecting an estimated billion Chrome users. XBOW, the autonomous offensive security company, announced that its platform has earned a $250,000 reward from Google’s Chrome Vulnerability Reward Program. This...

XBOW Earns $250,000 Google Bounty for Chrome Exploit

The six-day effort chained three Chrome vulnerabilities on Windows to run code outside the browser’s sandbox. XBOW paired AI agents with a human security researcher.

XBOW uses OpenAI's GPT-5.6 to exploit Chrome, earns $250,000 bounty

XBOW used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol to chain three Chrome flaws in six days, escaping the sandbox and earning Google's maximum $250,000 bounty.