Apple paid only $1k for a critical security flaw graded 9.8/10

Apple encourages security researchers to seek out and report vulnerabilities in its devices and apps, in return for which it pays bug bounties of up to $2M.

However, one security researcher who reported a Safari vulnerability Apple graded as Critical, and gave a severity score of 9.8 out of 10, says they were paid only $1,000 …

Apple upgraded its security bounty program back in 2022, and stated then that its average payout was $40,000 and that it had on twenty occasions paid a…