Riot offering up to $100,000 to find Vanguard anti-cheat bugs

When Riot launched Valorant, it also launched a deeply rooted anti-cheat system, Vanguard. This anti-cheat system requires kernel-level access, so maintaining its security is of the utmost importance. To support that, Riot is putting up some big money for its new Vanguard bug bounty program. 

The bug bounty program asks white hat hackers to root out exploits in Vanguard for both Valorant and League of Legends. The program is being handled by HackerOne, the most well-known bug bounty site. Payments for reported exploits can reach as high as $100,000.

Riot is offering up to $35,000 for exploits that enable privilege escalation, or up to $75,000 for exploits that attack the network while relying on user interaction to enable the attack. Up to $100,000 will be paid for exploits that can attack the network with zero user interaction.

Programs like this should help Riot keep Vanguard's kernel-level driver secure, which is necessary given how dangerous a kernel-level backdoor can be.

KitGuru Says: It will be interesting to see if any truly serious bugs are discovered through this program, requiring the maximum payout. 

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