Episode 91: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin Gardner sits down with Critical Thinking’s own HackerNotes writer Brandyn Murtagh (gr3pme) to talk about his journey with Bug Bounty. We cover mentorship, networking and LHEs, ecosystem hacking, emotional regulation, and the need for self-care. Then we wrap up with some fun bugs.

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Today’s guest: https://x.com/gr3pme

Resources:

Lessons Learned for LHEs

https://x.com/Rhynorater/status/1579499221954473984

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:07:02) Mentorship in Bug Bounty

(00:16:30) LHE lessons, takeaways, and the benefit of feedback and networking

(00:41:28) Choosing Targets

(00:49:03) Vuln Classes

(00:58:54) Bug Reports

Episode 90: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Joel and Justin recap some of their recent hacking ups and downs and have a lively chat about Cursor. Then they cover some some research about SQL Injections, Clickjacking in Google Docs, and how to steal your Telegram account in 10 seconds.

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Resources:

Breaking Down Barriers: Exploiting Pre-Auth SQL Injection in WhatsUp Gold

Content-Type that can be used for XSS

Clickjacking Bug in Google Docs

Justin's Gadget Link

https://www.youtube.com/signin?next=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.youtube.com%2Faccounts%2FSetSID%3Fcontinue%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%252Famp%252fpoc.rhynorater.com

Stealing your Telegram account in 10 seconds flat

Timestamps

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:08:28) Recent Hacks and Dupes

(00:14:00) Cursor

(00:25:02) Exploiting Pre-Auth SQL Injection in WhatsUp Gold

(00:34:17) Content-Type that can be used for XSS

(00:40:25) Caido updates

(00:43:14) Clickjacking in Google Docs, and Stealing Telegram account

Episode 89: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast We’re joined live by Matt Brown to talk about his journey with hacking in the IoT. We cover the specializations and challenges in hardware hacking, and Matt’s personal Methodology. Then we switch over to touch on BGA Reballing, Certificate Pinning and Validation, and some of his own bug stories.

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Today’s Guess Matt Brown: https://x.com/nmatt0

Resources:

Decrypting SSL to Chinese Cloud Servers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qSxxNvuEtg

mitmrouter

https://github.com/nmatt0/mitmrouter

certmitm Automatic Exploitation of TLS Certificate Validation Vulns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_l2q_Gyqfo

and

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2031/DEF%20CON%2031%20presentations/Aapo%20Oksman%20-%20certmitm%20automatic%20exploitation%20of%20TLS%20certificate%20validation%20vulnerabilities.pdf

https://github.com/aapooksman/certmitm

HackerOne Detailed Platform Standards

https://docs.hackerone.com/en/articles/8369826-detailed-platform-standards

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:13:33) Specialization and Challenges of IOT Hacking

(00:33:03) Decrypting SSL to Chinese Cloud Servers

(00:47:00) General IoT Hacking Methodology

(01:26:00) Certificate Pinning and Certificate Validation

(01:34:35) BGA Reballing

(01:43:26) Bug Stories

Episode 88: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin and Joel tackle a whole slate of new research including a new cheat sheet for URL validation bypass from Portswigger, the introduction of Sanic DNS as a high-speed DNS resolver, xsstools, and the Dockerization of Orange Confusion Attacks.

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Resources

URL Validation Bypass cheat sheet

SanicDNS

Orange Confusion Attacks

WordPress GiveWP POP to RCE

Xsstools

Bypassing browser tracking protection

Advanced iframe Magic

DOM Clobbering

https://www.ruhrsec.de/downloads/slides/Everything-You-Wanted-to-Know-About-DOM-Clobbering-But-Were-Afraid-to-Ask-Soheil-Khodayari-RuhrSec.pdf

And

https://domclob.xyz/domc_payload_generator/

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:02:00) URL validation bypass

(00:07:41) SanicDNS and Orange confusion attacks

(00:20:06) WordPress GiveWP POP to RCE

(00:31:29) Xsstools

(00:43:56) Bypassing browser tracking protection

(00:52:06) DOM Clobbering and mixing up your approach

Episode 87: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin sits down with none other than his wife Mariah to talk about Bug Bounty from the perspective of a Significant Other. They share how they’ve traversed travel and Live Hacking Events, household chores, hobbies, goals, rewards, as well as how best to encourage and support the hacker/non-hacker in your life.

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Today’s Guest: https://x.com/MariahG017

Resources:

Ruby Nealon's song

https://x.com/_ruby/status/835306502546149376

Don't Force Yourself to Become a Bug Bounty Hunter

https://samcurry.net/dont-force-yourself-to-become-a-bug-bounty-hunter

Timestamps

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:03:12) Technical Questions for a Bug Bounty Wife

(00:16:11) Mariah's First LHE experience

(00:31:12) LHEs as a Couple

(00:41:57) Encouragement and Risk

(00:55:55) Hacker Family Dynamics, goals, and keeping promises

(01:17:35) How to care for your Hacker/Hacker Wife

Episode 86: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Frans blows Justin’s mind with a sneak peak of his new presentation. Note: This is a little different from our normal episode, and video is recommended. So head over to ctbb.show/yt if you feel like you’re missing something.

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Today’s Guest: Frans Rosen - https://x.com/fransrosen

View the slides of this presentation at https://speakerdeck.com/fransrosen/x-correlation-injections-or-how-to-break-server-side-contexts

Timestamps

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:04:09) x-correlation injection

(00:21:10) Server-side JSON-Injection

(00:32:10) Fuzz Blindly and Optimizing Blind RCE

Episode 85: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin and Joel talk through some of the research coming out of DEFCON, mainly from the PortSwigger team. Web timing attacks, cache exploitation, and exploits related to email protocols are all featured. Plus we also talk some fun Apache hacks from Orange Tsai

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Resources

Listen to the whispers

https://portswigger.net/research/listen-to-the-whispers-web-timing-attacks-that-actually-work

Splitting the email atom

https://portswigger.net/research/splitting-the-email-atom

Gotta cache 'em all

https://portswigger.net/research/gotta-cache-em-all

HTTP Garden

https://github.com/narfindustries/http-garden

Confusion Attacks: Exploiting Hidden Semantic Ambiguity in Apache HTTP Server!

https://blog.orange.tw/2024/08/confusion-attacks-en.html#%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8F-2-2-2-Local-Gadget-to-XSS

Trusted API Types

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Trusted_Types_API

Untrusted Types

https://github.com/filedescriptor/untrusted-types

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:09:45) 'Listen to the whispers'

(00:30:03) 'Splitting the email atom'

(00:58:42) 'Gotta cache 'em all'

(01:21:03) 'Confusion Attacks'

Episode 84: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, Justin is joined by Roni Carta (@0xLupin) to discuss their MVH win at the recent Google LHE, and share some technical observations they had with the target and the event.

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Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:02:12) MHV Debrief

(00:09:05) Sandboxes and Comfort Zones

(00:13:24) SDKs and Legal Compliance

(00:19:29) Age of Target and Platform-Exclusive Hunters