Episode 145: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Brandyn lets us in on some of his notetaking tips, including his Templates, Threat Modeling, and ways he uses notes to help with collaboration.

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====== This Week in Bug Bounty ======

The minefield between syntaxes

https://www.yeswehack.com/learn-bug-bounty/syntax-confusion-ambiguous-parsing-exploits

====== Resources ======

Brandyn's Notion Template

https://terrific-dart-70e.notion.site/Example-Target-CTBB-294f4ca0f42481cca0b0ca6ac0a7c81d

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:07:25) Templates, Target, and Tech Stack

(00:13:33) Threat Modeling and Attack Vectors

Episode 144: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Joseph is joined by Vitor Falcão and Ciarán Cotter to discuss their success at the recent Mexico LHE, as well as their journey and routines in fulltime hacking.

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Today’s Guests:

Vitor Falcão

https://x.com/busf4ctor

Ciarán Cotter

https://x.com/monkehack

====== This Week in Bug Bounty======

Securing the Age of AI Autonomy: Priorities for 2026

https://www.hackerone.com/events/bionic-hacking

====== Resources ======

AI Vulnerability Reward Program Rules

https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/google-friends/5222232590712832/ai-vulnerability-reward-program-rules

My First 3 Months as a Full-Time Bug Bounty Hunter

https://vitorfalcao.com/posts/3-months-as-a-full-time-bug-bounty-hunter/

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:02:32) Client side Bug Story & Vitor's BB journey

(00:13:59) Google LHE Mexico takeaways

(00:26:55) Full-time hunting reflections

(00:33:39) Hacking routines

(00:42:56) Hacking AI

Episode 143: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin brings Brandyn back to announce him as our newest co-host. We chat about recent LHE experiences, and then break down some news.

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====== This Week in Bug Bounty ======

YesWeHack won the European commission: https://www.yeswehack.com/news/european-commission-tender-won-yeswehack

YesWeHack now have authorised cve numbering authority: https://www.yeswehack.com/news/yeswehack-authorised-cve-numbering-authority

A wide range of highly used open source bug bounty program such as Log4J, Systemd, GNOME and a lot more:

https://event.yeswehack.com/events/open-the-code-source-the-bounty

====== Resources ======

Attributes reference inside HTML

Explaining XSS without parentheses and semi-colons

Beyond Sandbox Domains: Rendering Untrusted Web Content with SafeContentFrame

One Token to rule them all

flareprox

Caido 101: How to master it

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:03:16) LHE approaches and accomplishments

(00:30:54) Attributes reference inside HTML & Explaining XSS without parentheses and semi-colons

(00:44:33) One Token to rule them all

(00:57:13) Flareprox & Caido 101

Episode 142: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Rez0 and Gr3pme join forces to discuss Websocket research, Meta’s $111750 Bug, PROMISQROUTE, and the opportunities afforded by going full time in Bug Bounty.

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====== This Week in Bug Bounty ======

New Monthly Dojo challenge and Dojo UI design

The ultimate Bug Bounty guide to exploiting race condition vulnerabilities in web applications

Watch Our boy Brandyn on the TV

====== Resources ======

murtasec

WebSocket Turbo Intruder: Unearthing the WebSocket Goldmine

Remote code execution though vulnerability in Facebook Messenger for Windows

Finding vulnerabilities in modern web apps using Claude Code and OpenAI Codex

Mind the Gap

PROMISQROUTE

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:05:16) Full Time Bug Bounty and Business Startups

(00:15:50) Websockets

(00:22:17) Meta’s $111750 Bug

(00:28:38) Finding vulns using Claude Code and OpenAI Codex

(00:39:32) Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use Vulns in LLM-Enabled Agents

(00:45:22) PROMISQROUTE

Episode 141: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin sits down with Nick Copi to talk about CSPT, React, CSS Injections and how Nick hacked the pod.

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====== Resources ======

regexploit

https://github.com/doyensec/regexploit

Fontleak

https://adragos.ro/fontleak/

debug(function)

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/console/utilities#debug-function

domloggerpp

https://github.com/kevin-mizu/domloggerpp

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:02:40) Google Docs Bug and 7urb0 Introduction

(00:13:26) Bring-a-bug story

(00:20:21) 7urb0's DEFCON talk teaser & Intrusive Thoughts Worth Sharing

(00:30:01) CSPTs and React Apps

(00:51:31) CSS Injections

(01:04:55) 7urb0's backstory and game hacking

(01:18:33) Worst Crit

Episode 140: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin and Joseph give an update from The Crit Research Lab, as well as some writeups on postMessage vulnerabilities, Cookie Chaos, and more.

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====== This Week in Bug Bounty ======

Cross-site request forgery

HackerOne New Milestone Program

Email [email protected] for media opportunities

====== Resources ======

Exploiting Web Worker XSS with Blobs

Critical Research Lab

Rez0's Tweet

CVE-2022-21703: cross-origin request forgery against Grafana

Conversation about Forcing Quirks Mode

AI Busniess Logic & POC or GTFO

Hunting postMessage Vulnerabilities – Part 1

Hunting postMessage Vulnerabilities – Part 2

Executive Offense

Cookie Chaos: How to bypass Host and Secure cookie prefixes

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:05:48) Crit Research Update

(00:13:00) Encouragement & Collaboration

(00:19:37) Cross-origin request forgery & Anthropic's web fetch

(00:29:17) Quirks Mode, AI Business Logic & POC or GTFO

(00:44:21) Hunting postMessage & Claude Code browserbase

(00:51:25) Community story, Executive Offense, & Cookie Chaos

Episode 139: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin finally sits down with the great James Kettle to talk about HTTP Proxys, metagaming research, avoiding burnout, and why HTTP/1.1 must die!

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https://jameskettle.com

====== This Week in Bug Bounty ======

Building an Android Bug Bounty lab

Mobile Hacking Toolkit

====== Resources ======

CVE-2022-22720

So you want to be a web security researcher?

Hunting Evasive Vulnerabilities: Finding Flaws That Others Miss by James Kettle

HTTP/1.1 Must Die! The Desync Endgame

Practical HTTP Host header attacks

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:05:01) Apache MITM-powered pause-based client-side desync

(00:15:33) HTTP Proxys and Burp Suite HTTP/2 in Repeater

(00:24:52) AI intagrations, life structure, and avoiding burnout

(00:35:23) Client-side to server-side progression

(00:47:39) The 'metagame' of security research

(01:29:43) Host Header Attacks & HTTP/1.1 Must Die!

(02:02:34) Is HTTP/2 the solution?

Episode 138: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast We’re talking Caido tools and workflows. Justin gives us a list of some of the Caido tools that have caught his interest, as well as how he’s using them.

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====== This Week in Bug Bounty ======

Meet YesWeHack at ROOTCON 2025

https://www.yeswehack.com/page/meet-yeswehack-at-rootcon-2025

New Dojo challenge featuring a Local File Inclusion in a Ruby application

https://dojo-yeswehack.com/challenge-of-the-month/dojo-44?utm_source=sponsor&utm_medium=challenge&utm_campaign=dojo-44

AI Red Teaming CTF

https://ctf.hackthebox.com/event/details/ai-red-teaming-ctf-ai-gon3-rogu3-2604

====== Resources ======

Web Security Labs

http://caido.rhynorater.com

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:02:32) Common filters & command palette in EvenBetter

(00:06:49) Notes++

(00:09:28) Shift Agents and Drop

(00:15:34) Workflows

Episode 137: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin Gardner and Joseph Thacker reunite to talk about AI Hacking Assistants, CSPT and cache deception, and a bunch of tools like ch.at, Slice, Ebka, and more.

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====== This Week in Bug Bounty ======

Vulnerability vectors: SQL injection for Bug Bounty hunters

Mozilla VPN Clients: RCE via file write and path traversal

====== Resources ======

Cache Deception + CSPT:

dig @ch.at

Searchlight Cyber Tools

Slice

Ebka-Caido-AI

postMessage targetOrigin bypass

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:01:26) Claude, Gemini, and Hacking Assistants

(00:11:08) AI Safety

(00:18:09) CSPT

(00:23:26) ch.at, Slice, Ebka, & Searchlight Cyber Tools

(00:45:19) postMessage targetOrigin bypass

Episode 136: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, Joseph Thacker sits down with Jack Cable to get the scoop on a significant bug in Cluely’s desktop application, as well as the resulting drama. They also talk about Jack’s background in government cybersecurity initiatives, and the legal risks faced by security researchers.

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====== This Week in Bug Bounty ======

Nullcon Berlin

https://www.yeswehack.com/page/yeswehack-live-hacking-nullcon-berlin-2025?utm_source=sponsor&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=lhe-nullcon-berlin

BB Bulletin #15

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bug-bounty-bulletin-15-yes-we-hack-dntue/

2x Bounty on Grab

https://hackerone.com/grab?type=team

====== Resources ======

Corridor

https://corridor.dev/

disclose.io

https://disclose.io/

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:03:33) Cluely Bug, Government involvement, & Disclosed.io

(00:12:33) AI in security & Corridor.dev

(00:29:23) Cluely Bug Fallout & Ethics of hacking outside of Programs

(00:41:20) Shift Agents