Google has more than doubled payouts for Google Chrome security flaws reported through its Vulnerability Reward Program, with the maximum possible reward for a single bug now exceeding $250,000.

Google paid almost $12 million in bug bounty rewards to 660 security researchers who reported security bugs through the company's Vulnerability Reward Program (VRP) in 2024.

Google has patched Chrome zero-day CVE-2025-6558, which is being actively exploited in the wild. Users are urged to update now.