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Security researcher Arvin Shivram used a custom AI-powered testing system to uncover dozens of vulnerabilities across Google's API ecosystem, earning more than $500,000 in bug bounty rewards.

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Google's API ecosystem

Who
Arvin Shivram and Google
What
Security researcher Arvin Shivram used a custom AI-powered testing system to uncover dozens of vulnerabilities across Google's API ecosystem, earning more than $500,000 in bug bounty rewards.
When
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:51:42 GMT · 4h 4m ago
Where
Google's API ecosystem ·
Why
Shivram developed an automated platform to probe Google's APIs at scale, identifying access control failures and other security weaknesses that could not be easily found by human testers.
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The vulnerabilities found by Arvin Shivram's AI system in Google Voice, Widevine DRM, and other Google platforms could have exposed sensitive user and organizational data, highlighting the effectiveness of AI in uncovering complex security flaws and prompting Google to issue significant bug bounty rewards.

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