Episode 162: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin and Joseph sit down with HackerOne Founder & CTO Alex Rice to discuss concerns of Using Hacker Data for AI and decreasing bounties.

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Today’s Guest: https://x.com/senorarroz

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

XML external entity: The ultimate Bug Bounty guide to exploiting XXE vulnerabilities

https://www.yeswehack.com/learn-bug-bounty/xml-external-entity-guide-xxe?utm_source=Critical_Thinking&utm_medium=Youtube&utm_campaign=XXE_Critical_Thinking&utm_id=XXE_CT

Bug Bounty Maturity Framework

https://bugbountymaturity.com/

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

Confidential Information and Confidentiality Obligations

https://www.hackerone.com/terms/general#:~:text=HackerOne%20may%20use%20Confidential%20Information%20to%20develop%20and/or%20improve%20its%20Services%20(for%20example%2C%20to%20identify%20trends%2C%20and%20to%20train%20AI%20models)%20provided%20such%20use%20does%20not%20result%20in%20disclosure%20of%20Confidential%20Information%20to%20unauthorized%20third%20parties

Ownership and Licenses

https://www.hackerone.com/terms/community#:~:text=8.%20Ownership%20and%20Licenses

I argued with an AI regarding HackerOne using Hacker reports to train PtaaS

https://bugbounty.forum/post/183ff0fc-eb9e-47f8-991d-c0aa5b0bba71

HackerOne PTaaS (likely training their AI on private reports data)

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugbounty/comments/1r5hixk/hackerone_ptaas_likely_training_their_ai_on/

What Makes Agentic PTaaS Different in Real Environments

https://www.hackerone.com/blog/agentic-penetration-testing-as-a-service#:~:text=Our%20agents%20are,real%20enterprise%20constraints

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

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:08:44) HackerOne AI Terms of Service 

(00:24:56) Agentic PTaaS

(00:38:09) Selling data

(00:43:49) Decrease in Bounties

Episode 161: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin Gives us some quick hits regarding CSRF and Cross Consumer Attacks, and also touches on some breaking questions surrounding HackerOne

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

AS Watson

https://app.intigriti.com/programs/aswatson/watsons/detail

YesWeHack 2026 Report

https://choose.yeswehack.com/bug-bounty-report-2026-trends-and-key-insights-yeswehack?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=sponsor-critical-thinking&utm_campaign=yeswehack-report-2026 

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

PhoneLeak: Data Exfiltration in Gemini via Phone Call

https://blog.starstrike.ai/posts/phoneleak-data-exfiltration-in-gemini-via-phone-call/

Max's Tweet about decreasing bounties

https://x.com/0xw2w/status/2020788164378427483

HackerOne General Terms and Conditions

https://www.hackerone.com/terms/general

Research Review #-2: RCE in Google's AI code editor Antigravity (sudi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqvJSF2UMyY

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

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:03:26) YesWeHack 2026 Report

(00:09:12) CSRF Realizations & Data Exfiltration in Gemini via Phone Call

(00:14:38) 7urb0's Youtube, HackerOne decreasing bounties and Section    3.1 controversy.

(00:19:06) Cross Consumer Attacks

Episode 160: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Joseph and Brandyn. Chat through some news, Including a Cloudflare Zero-day, Turning List-Unsubscribe into an SSRF/XSS Gadget, & Magic String Denial of Service in Claude.

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====== Links ======

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Today’s Sponsor: Adobe.

Use code CTBB040126, and get a 10% bonus on your bounty for any AI vulnerability which is mapped to the OWASP LLM top 10.

Valid on Adobe Acrobat Web - AI Assistant / PDF Spaces / Content Creation and presentation features using Express

Adobe Express AI Assistant. 

Valid through April 1st, 2026

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

Cloudflare Zero-day

https://fearsoff.org/research/cloudflare-acme

Turning List-Unsubscribe into an SSRF/XSS Gadget

https://security.lauritz-holtmann.de/post/xss-ssrf-list-unsubscribe/

Breaking Multi-Tenant Isolation in Heroku Postgres

https://allistair.sh/blog/breaking-heroku-postgres/

Parse and Parse: MIME Validation Bypass to XSS via Parser Differential

https://lab.ctbb.show/research/parse-and-parse-mime-validation-bypass-to-xss-via-parser-differential

Claude Magic String Denial of Service

https://x.com/Frichette_n/status/2013988503336415522

From WebView to Remote Code Injection

https://djini.ai/from-webview-to-remote-code-injection/

DOM XSS Is Not Dead: The Rise of Polyglot Payloads

https://blogs.jsmon.sh/dom-xss-is-not-dead-the-rise-of-polyglot-payloads/

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

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:06:17) Cloudflare Zero-day & Turning List-Unsubscribe into an SSRF/XSS Gadget

(00:16:57) Breaking Multi-Tenant Isolation in Heroku Postgres & CTBB Research

(00:25:46) Claude Magic String Denial of Service & From WebView to Remote Code Injection

Episode 159: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we sit down with the Google Cloud VRP Team to deep-dive policy and reward changes, what the panel process looks like, and how to best configure for success.

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Today’s Guests:

Darby Hopkins

Michael Cote

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

AI Red Teaming Explained by AI Red Teamers

Good Faith AI Research Safe Harbor

Join the Adobe LHE at NULLCON GOA

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

‘Legendary Guy’ - Jakub Domeracki

Google Cloud VRP rewards rules

Google Cloud VRP product tiers

Bug Hunters blog on the 2025 Google Cloud VRP bugSWAT

Google VRP Discord

Google VRP on X

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

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:10:03) CloudVRP Bugswat Event Breakdown

(00:16:40) VRP Policy & Rewards Changes

(00:04:50) Panel Process

(01:00:08) Configuring for Success & Avoiding Downgrades

(01:33:47) Scenarios for Success

Episode 158: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk about our personal takeaways from the CTBB Charity Hackalong, and then break down some InsertScript POCs, what a $55,000 bug can look like, and if Smart People Ever Say They’re Smart.

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====== Links ======

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

InsertScript - XSS Challenge Solution

https://insert-script.blogspot.com/2020/03/xss-challenge-solution-refresh-header.html

InsertScript - Redirect AuthHeader

https://www.insert-script.com/examples/redirectAuthHeader/send.html

CRLF injection on a 302 redirect

https://x.com/0xdef1ant/status/2009040359482118500

Multiple XSS in Meta Conversion API Gateway Leading to Zero-Click Account Takeover

https://ysamm.com/uncategorized/2025/01/13/capig-xss.html

Arcanum Hack Tips

https://github.com/Arcanum-Sec/hack_tips

Trail of Bits Releases Claude Skills

https://x.com/dguido/status/2011541318229533063

what a $55,000 bug can look like

https://x.com/the_IDORminator/status/2007480636244697237

Pwning Claude Code in 8 Different Ways

https://flatt.tech/research/posts/pwning-claude-code-in-8-different-ways/

Do Smart People Ever Say They’re Smart?

https://labs.watchtowr.com/do-smart-people-ever-say-theyre-smart-smartertools-smartermail-pre-auth-rce-cve-2025-52691/

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

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:04:18) Technical takeaways from CT Charity Hackalong

(00:22:21) InsertScript POCs & Rez0 and teknogeek's IOT Adventures

(00:32:16) CRLF injection on a 302 redirect & Multiple XSS in Meta

(00:41:00) Trail of Bits, what a $55,000 bug can look like, & Pwning Claude Code

(00:54:16) Do Smart People Ever Say They’re Smart?

Episode 157: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we’re joined by Hypr to talk about hacking Mediatek and his experiences with HackerOne and Pwn2Own Ecosystems.

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

Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025: call for nominations

https://portswigger.net/research/top-10-web-hacking-techniques-of-2025-nominations-open

CVE-2025-13467

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-13467

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

Hypr's Blog

https://blog.coffinsec.com

mediatek? more like media-rekt, amirite.

https://blog.coffinsec.com/0days/2025/12/15/more-like-mediarekt-amirite.html

kernel-utils

https://github.com/mellow-hype/kernel-utils

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

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:03:23) Heap Overflow in Mediatek Kernel Drivers

(00:19:23) Kernel Debugging & ioctl Handlers

(00:43:30) Input Structs, Sync to Source, & Privilege Escalation

(00:51:30) HackerOne Ecosystem vs Pwn2Own Ecosystem

(01:17:00) Kernel Utils

(01:26:46) Real World Bugs for Exploit Development vs CTFs

Episode 156: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we answer some fantastic questions from over at bugbounty.forum

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

Critical Thinking Lab

lab.ctbb.show

Cross-Site ETag Length Leak

https://blog.arkark.dev/2025/12/26/etag-length-leak

Clawdbot

https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot/

Post from Steve Caldwell

https://x.com/moreconfetti/status/2006494133159162008

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

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:00:58) Crit Lab update

(00:04:36) Cross-Site ETag Length Leak

(00:13:26) Clawdbot

(00:16:56) Will bug hunting become obsolete, LHE invitations, and Fulltime vs Part time?

(00:30:52) 10 bugs at $5k or 1 bug at $5k, CTBB Background, & Future Plans

(00:38:32) Mentoring, Conquering Classes, and what angles we implement from the podcast

(00:49:27) Best approach on new targets, tips for making 500k in a year, AI/Vibecoding & Human in the Loop

(00:59:07) Mentally mapping the target, anti-patterns that waste time, and BB beliefs that were wrong.

(01:10:12) Tackling small scope, staying on one program, picking up after a break, & moving on

(01:17:41) Invisible elements that make the difference between $2k and $20k

Episode 155: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin, Joseph, and Brandyn reflect on last year of Bug Bounty, and list their goals and predictions for what 2026 holds.

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

2024 Hacker Stats & 2025 Goals

https://blog.criticalthinkingpodcast.io/p/hackernotes-ep-104-2024-hacker-stats-2025-goals

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

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:02:08) 2025 Full Time Hunting Retrospective

(00:10:19) Most Fulfilling Moments and Bugs

(00:17:56) Satisfaction with 2025 Stats

(00:45:28) Automation, Organization, and Collaboration

(00:48:55) Time and Motivation

(01:08:01) Goals and Predictions for Bug Bounty in 2026

Episode 154: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Joseph and Brandyn talk through the transition from Bug Bounty hunting to Pentesting. We cover diversifying income streams, the challenges of pricing for Pentests, legal considerations, and what Bug Hunters can bring to the Pentesting world

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

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:03:36) Starting a Pentesting Company

(00:12:25) Advantages of Pentesting as a Bug Bounty Hunter

(00:29:03) Pricing, Sales, and knowing your Market/Worth

(00:36:21) Compliance in Pentests & Rapid-Fire Takaways

Episode 153: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Matt Brown returns to talk with us about hacking robots, IOT hackbots, and his Zero-to-Hero Hardware Hacking Guide.

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Today’s Guest: Matt Brown

• https://x.com/nmatt0
• https://github.com/BrownFineSecurity/iothackbot

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

KeeYees USB Logic Analyzer Device

Saleae logic analyzer

XGecu

Hardware Hacking Tutorial by Make Me Hack

UART and SPI firmware extraction

UART Root Shell on Linux Router

UART Shell Jail and Unlocked Bootloader

Chinese IP Camera Firmware Extraction

Chip-Off Firmware Extraction

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

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:01:22) Incremental Session Token Story and Matt Brown Intro

(00:10:42) Hardware Bug Bounty Scene & AI on Devices

(00:24:30) Hacking Human Robot

(00:41:33) Zero-to-Hero Hardware Hacking Guide

(01:01:47) IOT Hackbot