A couple of weeks after OpenAI introduced it’s bug bounty program, Microsoft came up with a similar program for it’s Bing Chat.
Well, it’s not through any third-party platform, but from Microsoft’s bounty program. Security researchers or ethical hackers finding suitable bugs will be rewarded accordingly, concerning Bing Chat.
Bugs in it’s Search AI Chatbot
Bug bounty programs are one of the reliable methods of testing a company’s software product – which includes inviting independent researchers and hackers to exploit their offerings for a reward.
While many companies do this through dedicated bug bounty platforms like BugCrowd or HackerOne, some organise it through their modes. And Microsoft is one among them, which offers a bug bounty program from it’s site.
The Redmond company has a range of products to exploit – like NET, Edge, Azure and Identity, where interested people can report vulnerabilities and be rewarded accordingly. Well, the list is now expanded to include the new Bing Chat – the AI chatbot running on OpenAI’s GPT-4 model.
To the unknown, Microsoft has invested $10 billion into OpenAI – the maker behind ChatGPT to source it’s underlying GPT-4 model for it’s products. Eventually, Microsoft integrated the GPT-4 into it’s Office suite and Bing Search, and relaunched the latter with a new chatbot.
Since it’s a growing technology, Microsoft wants it to be the best, thus asking security researchers to find bugs within. The new bug bounty program needs the participants to submit a detailed report on any type of bug they find in Bing Chat – which should include several PoC factors, the type of issue, its version, any updates they’ve installed, special configurations required to reproduce the bug, and step-by-step instructions to reproduce the issue on a first install.
The submission will then go through a detailed check by Microsoft engineers and if deemed reasonable – will disburse the said bounty reward.
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