Ahead of the introduction of Apple's private AI cloud next week, the company has branded Private Cloud Compute, touting that it will pay security researchers up to $1 million to find vulnerabilities that can compromise the security of its private AI cloud.

Apple has announced that it will pay up to the maximum $1 million bounty for any report on exploits capable of running malicious code remotely on its Private Cloud Compute servers, the technology company said in a post published on its security blog. The firm indicated that it would also offer some researchers up to $250,000 for privately reporting exploits that could extract users' sensitive information or that prompts customers submit to the company's private cloud.

Apple said it will "consider any security issue that has a significant impact" outside of a published category, including up to $150,000 for exploits that can gain access to sensitive user information from a privileged network position.
"We award maximum amounts for vulnerabilities that compromise user data and inference request data outside the [private cloud compute] trust boundary," Apple said.

That is Apple's latest logical extension of its bug bounty program, rewarding hackers and security researchers with financial rewards for privately reporting flaws and vulnerabilities that could find their way to compromise someone's customers' devices or accounts.

Recently, Apple opened the security of its flagship iPhones by making a special iPhone for hacking alone that a firm based the device to create to better improve the security of the device, which has often been the target of many spyware makers in recent years.
It was in a recent blog post that Apple disclosed more about the security of Private Cloud Computer services, along with the source code and documentation.

Describing its Private Cloud Compute, Apple says this is an online extension of the company's on-device AI model, called Apple Intelligence, capable of doing far heavier-lift AI tasks in a manner Apple says preserves the customers' privacy.