Google Chrome Reward: Full Chain Exploit Shakes Cybersecurity
Google Chrome full-chain exploit reward has just marked a historic milestone after paying $250,000 to the security firm XBOW for breaking the defenses of the most widely used browser on the planet. Achieving an attack that takes absolute control of a computer with Windows, without downloads or suspicious clicks, usually requires months of work by military intelligence teams.
Google has paid $250,000 to security firm XBOW for discovering a full-chain exploit in Chrome, the world's most widely used browser. The exploit, achieved with the help of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model and costing $40,000 in computing resources, allowed attackers to take control of a Windows computer without requiring downloads or suspicious clicks.
The breakthrough was made by a team of four researchers in just six days during the Black Hat and DEF CON conferences in Las Vegas. Google has since applied patches to its Chromium browser, and XBOW is developing an autonomous product to detect logical flaws in applications and infrastructure.
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