Episode 109: Creative Recon - Alternative Techniques

Episode 109: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we start off with a quick recap of some of the DeepSeek Drama that’s been going down, and discuss AI in CAPTCHA and 2FA as well. Then we switch to cover some other news before settling in to talk about Alternative Recon Techniques
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====== Resources ======
Resources
Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database (wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-uncovers-exposed-deep…)
Bypass Bot Detection (x.com/BApp_Store/status/1884648661058990310)
Tweet from sw33tLie (x.com/sw33tLie/status/1883630595747758384)
rsc 2fa (github.com/rsc/2fa)
Stealing HttpOnly cookies with the cookie sandwich technique (portswigger.net/research/stealing-httponly-coo…)
Report Pointers for Collaborative Chains (douglas.day/2025/01/20/collaborativechains.html)
Clone2Leak: Your Git Credentials Belong To Us (flatt.tech/research/posts/clone2leak-your-git-…)
Deanonymization via cache (gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1…)
GoogleChrome related-website-sets (github.com/GoogleChrome/related-website-sets)
====== Timestamps ======
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:02:03) DeepSeek debacle and Bypass Bot Detection
(00:23:48) Stealing HttpOnly cookies with the cookie sandwich technique
(00:30:54) Report Pointers for Collaborative Chains
(00:34:43) Clone2Leak: Your Git Credentials Belong To Us
(00:40:04) Deanonymization for Signal and Discord
(00:41:53) Alternative Recon Techniques