What are the implications of rapidly improving AI for SecOps teams and ethical hackers?
This is a central theme of the second annual YesWeHack report, which examines the impact of AI on the challenges facing CISOs and the workflows of our community of Bug Bounty hunters.
The 2026 edition reveals how trends supercharged by AI have shaped the evolution of the YesWeHack platform so that it meets the increasingly complex needs of today’s security teams. We also analyse how augmented intelligence – deployed in line with strict privacy and security standards – can help defenders find, fix and remediate vulnerabilities more effectively.
Findings from a survey of Bug Bounty hunters, which included questions on how our community chooses scopes, hones their hacking skills and uses AI tools to streamline and optimise their bug hunts, is another standout feature.
Readers will also learn about how the European Commission is expanding Bug Bounty testing to a wider range of open source projects and, potentially, other applications used by EU institutions, after YesWeHack became the Commission’s preferred provider of Bug Bounty services last year.
And once again there’s a hall of fame spotlighting the achievements of our hunters last year, alongside hacking advice from the community and insights based on the ‘hacktivity’ on our Bug Bounty platform across 2025.
The report is accessible with a single click, with no need to enter your email or any other personal details.
Among other things, this 19-chapter report features:
- How and why our platform is unifying offensive security and exposure management with a four-step cycle of MAP →TEST →FIX →COMPLY
- How AI is amplifying both the challenges and capabilities of SecOp teams and the implications for security testing and cyber-risk management
- The critical role played by triage and customer-success management teams in the success of Bug Bounty Programs
- How the European Commission is expanding its crowdsourced security testing with YesWeHack as its preferred Bug Bounty provider
- Revisiting YesWeHack’s assignment as a CVE Numbering Authority and first-ever acquisition last year
- What customers think about YesWeHack’s platform, triage and customer-success teams
- A recap of last year’s live hacking events
- Findings from our hunter survey reveal community preferences for choosing scopes, honing hacking skills and using AI tools
- Leaderboards, hacking advice and favourite bugs featuring our Hall of Famers
- An innovative and well-received web-security research writeup from our in-house hunter Brumens
The report is accessible with a single click, with no need to enter your email or any other personal details.
