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A beginner's roadmap for playing CTFs: 10 practical tips for beginners

CTF Challenge

Hacking Tools

November 8, 2024

Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges are fun to play, form a powerful training ground and help drastically develop your hacking skills. CTF competitions come in many forms, from malware analysis to web vulnerability challenges. Some CTF events also provide the winners with cash rewards (bounties), excl

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Top 4 new attack vectors in web application targets

Web & API Hacking

Hacking Tools

October 29, 2024

We all like to find vulnerabilities in bug bounty programs, they get us bounties, increase our ranks on platform leaderboards and help us stay motivated to look for more of them. If you've been doing bug bounty for a while, your methodology will focus on finding an edge so that you can spot more vul

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Google dorking for beginners: how to find more vulnerabilities using Google search

Bug Bounty Tips & Methodology

Hacking Tools

October 27, 2024

Bug bounty hunters who spend time in content discovery and reconnaissance, in general, are always rewarded well for their efforts as they often come across untested and hidden assets or endpoints. Google dorking is another way to leverage search engines to discover hidden assets and endpoints to inc

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Submission retesting is here

Company News

Product Updates

October 23, 2024

We’re excited to announce the new submission retesting feature on our platform! Simplify your ability to validate fixes across all your programs with a click of a button, including bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, and hybrid pentest programs. Let’s dive into the details! A submission retest ref

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7 Ways to achieve remote code execution

Web & API Hacking

Hacking Tools

October 22, 2024

Remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities are always fun to find for bug bounty hunters, they usually carry a huge impact and indicate a big upcoming payday. In this article, we will go over the 7 most common ways to achieve remote code execution by exploiting several vulnerability types. Let's di

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Uphold celebrates four years with Intigriti

Customer Stories

News

October 21, 2024

Intigriti is thrilled to announce that Uphold, the leading multi-asset digital money platform, is celebrating four years of its bug bounty program with Intigriti. To mark this milestone, Intigriti sat down with Pedro Queirós, Uphold's VP of Cyber Security, to discuss the impact the bug bounty progra

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Recon for bug bounty: 8 essential tools for performing effective reconnaissance

Bug Bounty Tips & Methodology

Hacking Tools

October 15, 2024

We all know that reconnaissance is important in bug bounty, in fact, it is the most important phase in bug bounty & web app pentesting. Bug bounty hunters who perform effective recon are always rewarded well as they come across untouched features and hidden assets more often than others. This provid

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7 Tips for bug bounty beginners

Bug Bounty Tips & Methodology

Hacking Tools

September 27, 2024

We all had to start somewhere in bug bounty hunting and we all made mistakes along the way. Most of these often helped us learn more and become even better bug bounty hunters! If you're in your first years of doing bug bounty hunting or just starting and exploring bug bounties, we want to help you s

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Hacking misconfigured Cloudflare R2 buckets: A complete guide

Web & API Hacking
Security Misconfigurations

Hacking Tools

September 12, 2024

Cloudflare R2 buckets are recently becoming more popular as an alternative to AWS S3 buckets for their simplicity, integration support and zero-egress fees. Customers who opt-in to use Cloudflare R2 are not going to be charged for any traffic to and from the bucket. This often means a severely reduc

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Hacking misconfigured AWS S3 buckets: A complete guide

Web & API Hacking
Security Misconfigurations

Hacking Tools

September 5, 2024

AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) buckets are a popular storage service used by software companies and organizations to store public as well as sensitive data. However, the implementation of this service is not always correctly done. A single missing access policy can often introduce security risks, d

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CSRF: A complete guide to exploiting advanced CSRF vulnerabilities

Web & API Hacking
Client-Side Attacks

Hacking Tools

August 19, 2024

Cross-site request forgery, or for short CSRF, vulnerabilities are one of the most exploited web security vulnerabilities that result in performing unwanted actions. This client-side vulnerability can sometimes go unnoticed but delivers a devastating impact depending on the context. From basic actio

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Hacker insights: @Itsirkov on the business of ethical hacking

Hacker Spotlight

Hacker Spotlight

August 15, 2024

Once viewed with caution, ethical hackers are now regarded as an essential asset for many cybersecurity teams around the globe. Their proactive approach to finding and surfacing security weaknesses enables security teams to stay several steps ahead of potential cyber attacks. As cyber threats grow i

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Intigriti announces authorization as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)

Company News

News

August 7, 2024

London, UK & Antwerp, Belgium – Aug 06 – Intigriti, a leading platform in vulnerability management and bug bounty, announces today that it has been recognized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). The CVE Program is an international, community-based initiative dedicated to identifyi

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SSRF: A complete guide to exploiting advanced SSRF vulnerabilities

Web & API Hacking

Hacking Tools

August 1, 2024

SSRF—short for Server-Side Request Forgery—vulnerabilities are amongst one of the most impactful web security vulnerabilities. Even though they are less commonly found on targets they do take place on the OWASP Top 10 2021 ladder scoring the latest place (A10). SSRF vulnerabilities are known to have

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Communication just got easier: Introducing our improved submission messaging

Company News

Product Updates

July 31, 2024

Today, we're announcing a major upgrade to our submission messaging system, designed to streamline platform communication and boost efficiency for both researchers and companies on Intigriti. We've heard your feedback about tracking messages and potential oversights. To combat this, we've completely

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Hacking Salesforce Lightning: A Guide for Bug Hunters

Web & API Hacking
Security Misconfigurations

Hacking Tools

July 24, 2024

Salesforce Experience (or Community) Cloud is a CRM platform that helps software companies and organizations manage their customer relationships. Software companies and organizations often use it to manage their customer relationships, share information, and work with employees and customers (docume

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Escalating your privileges via open signups in popular services

Web & API Hacking
Security Misconfigurations

Hacking Tools

July 4, 2024

Most software companies resort to using third-party solutions for completing certain tasks within their company. A common example is a ticketing platform that helps teams and companies stay organized with issues that internal employees or customers may experience. Unfortunately, due to lack of time

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IDOR: A complete guide to exploiting advanced IDOR vulnerabilities

Web & API Hacking
Authentication & Authorization

Hacking Tools

June 25, 2024

IDOR —short for insecure direct object reference— vulnerabilities are one of the most commonly found web security vulnerabilities in modern web applications and APIs. It is no wonder that they are often recommended to new bug bounty hunters who are just starting as they are easy to spot and exploit

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Five easy ways to hack GraphQL targets

Web & API Hacking
Authentication & Authorization

Hacking Tools

May 31, 2024

GraphQL is a widely used query language that provides developers with the ability to query data easily. Unlike via a REST API, developers can send a schema in a single HTTP request and retrieve back all the necessary data. It’s an awesome query language that can help simplify several aspects during

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The truth about ethical hackers: Are they trustworthy?  

Bug Bounty & VDP

News

April 29, 2024

To outmanoeuvre cybercriminals, the key is to beat them to the punch by working with ethical hackers. However, a question often arises: Can we trust ethical hackers? Especially when we don’t know them personally? Through platforms such as Intigriti, the short answer is yes, you can trust these indiv

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