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Huawei Beats Google—offers $220,000 For ‘zero-click’ Android Phone Hacks by SUNNEW: 9:54am On Nov 19, 2019
Huawei Beats Google—Offers $220,000 For ‘Zero-Click’ Android Phone Hacks.

Huawei has fended off questions about secret backdoors in its smartphone and networking technology for years. Now it’s going to reward hackers for finding them in its Android-based mobile phones and in the process is outdoing Google.

In a bug bounty launch last week, Huawei said it would pay up to $220,000 (€200,000) for demonstrating a “critical” weakness in one of its Android devices, including the Mate, P, Nova, Y9 and Honor models. For a “high”-severity issue, hackers can earn up to $110,000 (€100,000). Google, meanwhile, offers up to $200,000 and $100,000 for demonstrations of similar attacks on its Pixel phones.

Huawei revealed the program at a private event for some of the world’s top Android hackers at a Munich, Germany, event last week. In giving an example of how they could get the top prize, Huawei told the hackers they would have to obtain remote access to the device without the target having to click anything. A high-severity hack would see the hacker take over a phone when they had direct access to the phone.

Huawei is, in one way, following Apple’s lead in keeping the bug bounty invite-only. Forbes 30 Under 30 alum Maria Markstedter was one of those invited. She revealed on Twitter that researchers who were invited would also be given tokens to welcome other benevolent hackers into the fold.

however, offering up to $1 million for complete remote control of an iPhone with zero clicks. “So I’ll give it a look but I’m not excited, just interested.”

While bug bounties are common among major smartphone makers—Apple and Google are behind two of the biggest—Huawei could have another reason to open up its devices. Letting some of the world’s smartest hackers uncover security vulnerabilities could provide proof that it isn’t hiding any backdoors in its most popular phones that the Chinese government could leverage.

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