Pak student gets $5000 reward from PayPal
ISLAMABAD: Rafay Baloch, an independent security researcher from Karachi, has been rewarded with $5,000 for reporting a remote command execution bug in the PayPal's website.
According to details, the PayPal had announced that this reward initiative for those researchers who would report about the existence of a bug and its subsequent remote command execution, Technology Times Reported.
Rafay Baloch explained that the bug he had reported was very critical in nature and carried a high amount of risk to the PayPal as an attacker could have easily managed to execute any command on the server and manipulate the data at his will.
Rafay has reported 20 bugs which are still being validated by PayPal.
It is to be mentioned here that Rafay has earlier been acknowledged by Microsoft, ESET and eBay for reporting bugs and flaws in their systems.
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