“Yandex” increased the annual fund of payments to “white” hackers to 100 million rubles

“Yandex“decided to increase by 2.5 times, up to 100 million rubles. an annual fund program that rewards “white hat” hackers for identifying vulnerabilities in its services and products. About it reported company press office.

Yandex will continue to reward participants if the total payments exceed RUB 100 million,” the company said.

It is noted that since the beginning of the yearYandex» has already paid more than 35 million rubles. The amount of remuneration depends on the criticality of the vulnerability, its ease of use and the impact on end-user data, the company explained.

Earlier in April, the Ministry of Digital reported about a very small number of “white hat” hackers in Russia. “Over the past year, all the top teams have been busy – and not only the top ones, but also small teams, very small ones also say: all orders have a lot,” Vladimir Bengin, director of the Cybersecurity Department of the Ministry of Digital Development, said then. Against the backdrop of the current shortage of such specialists, the business itself launched new training programs for them, he noted.

How wrote earlier than Vedomosti, the adoption of the bill on white hackers may be delayed. The initiative has been publicly discussed since the summer of 2022. At that time, the Ministry of Digital Development began to study the possibility of introducing the concept of bug bounty (searching for vulnerabilities in software for a fee) into the legal field. The movement of the bill was complicated due to the position of the FSB and the FSTEC (Federal Service for Technical and Export Control), which are reluctant to liberalize the provisions of the Criminal Code.