6 months after

It’s been almost 6 months since I created my first medium story and now I’ll be making my second one. This story will be about my cybersecurity progress for the past months since I created my first story.

This month is where I got accepted at Synack as a Synack Red Team and also the month when I was able to get my first bounty. Yup you read that right, I was able to get my first bounty and the amount is 205 USD. The bug was a CSRF wherein I could change the username of anyone even though the application is asking for a password first before you can change the username. I also wanted to add that I also created a Youtube channel on May, to create a vlog about my cybersecurity progress as well. Although I created the channel on the month of May, I started uploading videos on June so I decided to put it here on the month of June.

Although the channel name is h3xvideos, it was originally named as AceMalware, I decided to change the name because I don’t want people to think that I only upload Malware videos and stuff.

July was the best month for my cybersecurity journey since I set a goal on March. I was able to get 5 bounties for this month, you can check my Youtube channel for it and I was able to get around 2600USD. I wasn’t able to upload my 6th bounty, which I received 800USD for an IDOR vulnerability, because I was planning to upload it if I will be able to get my 7th bounty but I wasn’t able to do so because since the month of July, I wasn’t able to get a bounty. If you’re going to ask what I did with the bounty I earned, I went to buy the eLearnSecurity Malware Analyst Professional course, extend my eLearnSecurity Exploit Development, and also bought the eLearnSecurity Mobile Application Security and Penetration Testing.

There is not much of a progress this month but I would say that I’ve been focusing on Studying Malware Analyst and Exploit Development this month and I also started doing CTF in order to practice Reverse Engineering and Exploit Development and so far I still suck at playing CTF but I’ve been enjoying CTF right now more than I enjoy doing bug bounties so far. I’ve also started uploading CTF videos, mostly a video writeup about how I was able to solve a challenge. Me and my friends, who happens to be a newbie also in this field, decided to create a CTF team for us to learn, hopefully we’ll be able to learn much before this year ends.