Bug Bounty

Looking back at the past 4 months

Eldar describes his experiences with different bug bounty platforms and specifically their triage process. He definitely makes me want to spend some time on YesWeHack and Intigiriti because he wrote that the triage process is smoother than on Hackerone or Bugcrowd....

Don’t Force Yourself to Become a Bug Bounty Hunter

Sam Curry, one of the best hunters out there, wrote a blogpost about the topic of motivation in bug bounty. I think it’s always valuable to see words like this from someone like him because it can be puzzling of why even the best hunters out there don’t do it...

Bug bounty stats for the first 8 months

Shreyas Chavhan shared his exact roadmap for the first 8 months in bug bounty. I am a huge fan of initiatives like this that show us the real image, with the amount of time invested and not just the best parts. One of the things we can see here is the power of...

Attacking internal hosts for bug bounty

This is a very fun thing that Truffle Security has done! We all know many servers have misconfigured CORS, including internal websites. The problem with them is that from outside, we can’t reach them so so how do we exploit them? Truffle Security decided to purchase a...

Forging signed commits on GitHub

I find reports like this one very satisfying. In short, in GitHub’s commit signing flow, there were two different components and one of them extracted the email of the author regardless of whether there was a username while the regex in another component only accepted...

CTTB – The OG Bug Bounty King – Frans Rosen

If you are not listening to the Critical Thinking Bug Bounty Podcast, you are missing out on tons of useful, intermediate to advanced bug bounty and web security tips. I do listen to every single episode. Recently, I played the one with Frans Rosen and, at times, it...

4 DOs and DON’Ts for writing quality reports

None of us manual hackers has an infinite number of bugs to report. Sometimes, we need a few hours to find a bug but at other times, we need days or weeks. So when we finally have it, it would be stupid to write a poor report and get a bounty lower than we deserve....

Bug Bounty on Steroids by @HusseiN98D

Hussein Daher had a great presentation on Bsides Ahmedabad titled “Bug Bounty on Steroids”. He shows a few writeups and discloses some cheeky tricks. You can check out the whole hour-long video on YouTube or you can continue reading my notes and takeaways. Account...

How to win arguments in bug bounty reports?

The biggest positive of bug bounty is that you can do it from anywhere in the world. You don't need a contract or anything. However, the other side of this coin is that you just have to trust the bug bounty program that they will do the right thing. Often, they...