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Curl will stop bug bounties program due to avalanche of AI slop

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  • Curl ends HackerOne bug bounty due to fake and AI-generated vulnerability reports
  • Developers say incentives led to abuse, overwhelming the security team with invalid submissions
  • From February 2026, bug reports move to GitHub with no financial rewards

The developers of curl, the open source command-line tool and software library, are killing their HackerOne bug bounty program because they are being flooded with fake problems and vulnerabilities.

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