A real macOS flaw worth $200K went unreported because Apple's bug bounty inbox was full of AI slop

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Apple's bug bounty program is drowning in AI-generated bug reports.

The company has capped submissions per researcher because fabricated reports are clogging the review pipeline.

As a result, Italian startup Bynario was initially unable to report a serious macOS vulnerability worth up to $200,000 on the black market.

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