Episode 142: gr3pme's full-time hunting journey update, insane AI research, and some light news

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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====== 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