Just weeks after Apple hiked the rewards under its Security Bounty program to a new zenith , the tech giant has now drastically slashed its monetary awards for finding macOS-related security vulnerabilities, and that too at a time when Mac-related malware attacks are becoming increasingly prevalent.

macOS security bounties are now down between 50 percent and a whopping 83 percent, depending on the targeted vulnerability

Csaba Fitzl, a macOS security researcher at Iru, has now penned an interesting LinkedIn post, pointing to the sudden onslaught of penny-pinching ways within Apple's macOS-focused Security Bounty program .

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As is evident from Fitzl's post reproduced in the above snippet, Apple has drastically curtailed monetary awards under several macOS-geared categories:

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