Riot Games has announced its willingness to pay up to $100 for discovering vulnerabilities in the Vanguard system installed with the Valorant shooter. Announcement in the HackerOne service, where companies offer rewards for similar services from users.
The company is ready to pay $25 for a guest login of a user and performing actions on behalf of a system administrator. Another $50 thousand can be received for a successful network attack using an exploit (with user interaction). The $100 reward is for executing code at the kernel level without interacting with the player.
ΠΠ°ΠΊ Kotaku, the developers took this step because of the public controversy about the reliability of the Vanguard anti-cheat. A hype unfolded around him when it turned out that the system on users' computers permanently and with elevated privileges.
Riot Games is not the only game company that offers payouts for finding vulnerabilities. willing to pay between $100 and $20 to find vulnerabilities in Nintendo Switch and 000DS, and - up to $10 for finding bugs in GTA Online and Red Dead Online.
Source: 3dnews.ru