Bug Bounty Platform Hacaran has paid a $ 81 million to the White-Hate Hackers worldwide in the last 12 months.
Hacaran manages over 1,950 bug bounty programs and provides vulnerability, entry tests and code security services to many organizations.
Its list of customers includes high-profile companies such as anthropic, crypto.com, General Motors, Github, Githman Sachs, Uber, and US Defense Departments like government agencies.
According to a report published earlier this week, the average annual payment in all active programs is approximately $ 42,000. Meanwhile, the top 100 bug bounty programs on the platform have paid $ 51 million between July 1, 2024 and 30 June 2025.
“In the last 12 months, Hacron Bug Bounty programs collectively paid $ 81 million, 13% increase of YOY. Top 10 programs alone had an account of $ 21.6 million in the top 10 programs alone,” The company said,
“At the researcher level, the top 100 all-time earnings took a total of $ 31.8m, individual researchers now crossed six consecutive annual income.”
Hacaron stated that the number of AI weaknesses increased by more than 200%, with quick injection weaknesses growing by 540%, which confirm them as the fastest-dawn threat to AI security.
At the same time, security issues such as XSS (cross-site scripting) and SQLI (SQL injection) are in decline, while authority faults, including unfair access controls and IDOR (unsafe direct object reference), are experiencing a significant increase in reports.
Overall, AI was included in 2025 in 2025, an increase of 270%, with autonomous AI-managed agents 560+ valid reports in 2025.
The company said that 70% of more than 1,820 researchers surveyed in the previous year have “used AI Tools in the workflow to increase their hunting capabilities.”
“This year AI’s weaknesses increased by more than 200%, while enterprises expanded almost three times the AI security initiative at the last year’s speed,” Hacaron CEO Kara Sprag said,
“At the same time, ‘a new generation of researchers using AI to increase its hunting abilities to use a new generation of bionic hackers – is running the discovery of safety issues on unprecedented scale.”
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