Episode 15: The Israeli Million-Dollar Hacker

Episode 15: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talk with the latest Million-Dollar bug bounty hunter: @naglinagli . He talks about his climb from $1,000 in bounties to $1,000,000, recon tips and tricks, and some bug reports that made the news and landed him the "Best Bug" award at a H1 Live Hacking event.

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Follow your hosts Rhynorater & Teknogeek on twitter:

https://twitter.com/0xteknogeek

https://twitter.com/rhynorater

Follow Nagli and his new startup Shockwave:

https://twitter.com/naglinagli

https://twitter.com/shockwave_sec

HackMD Collaborative Notes:

https://hackmd.io/

Ian Carroll's Airline Miles Website:

https://seats.aero

Nagli's Tweet in ChatGPT Web Cache Deception:

https://twitter.com/naglinagli/status/1639343866313601024

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:04:40) Nagli’s Climb

(00:05:40) What kind of vulns do you look for?

(00:09:25) Working with other hackers

(00:10:20) Bug Bounty Hunter’s Guild

(00:12:35) Shockwave product

(00:14:12) Outsourcing tool development

(00:18:46) What got you started?

(00:21:13) Manual hacking vs recon suite + LHE focus

(00:25:00) How do you take notes

(00:29:42) Biggest things that you’ve learned over the past 2 years

(00:31:29) How do you ingest new techniques?

(00:31:50) Collaboration

(00:37:20) Justin Ranting about “Trained Eyes”

(00:40:18) Time spent coding vs hacking

(00:45:28) Travel and spending habits

(00:54:16) Grep is Nagli’s database

(00:56:20) Nagli’s ChatGPT Web Cache Deception

(00:58:44) What does your alerting look like?

(01:01:50) Nagli’s “Most Critical” SSRF

(01:04:30) Burp Active Scan