{"id":1786,"date":"2025-12-02T13:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T14:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:15:13","slug":"apple-security-bounties-slashed-as-mac-malware-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/apple-security-bounties-slashed-as-mac-malware-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple security bounties slashed as Mac malware grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Apple-security-bounties-slashed-as-Mac-malware-grows.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A well-known <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">security<\/a> researcher reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> has slashed its bounties for finding vulnerabilities in macOS. Many have been halved, with one of them reduced from over $30k to just $5k, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/06\/17\/security-bite-infostealer-malware-spikes-28-among-mac-users-says-jamf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a growing problem<\/a> with Mac <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/malware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">malware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Csaba Fitzl, principal macOS security researcher at Iru, says it suggests Apple doesn\u2019t really care about the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a>, and increases the likelihood that vulnerabilities will be sold on the black market instead of reported to the company \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"aapl,mac,malware\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1030930\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/02\/apple-security-bounties-slashed-as-mac-malware-grows\/#more-1030930\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A well-known security researcher reports that Apple has slashed its bounties for finding vulnerabilities in macOS. Many have ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}