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nahamsec/Resources-for-Beginner-Bug-Bounty-Hunters
A list of resources for those interested in getting started in bug bounties
A list of links to bug bounty and web security material, split into Markdown files by topic: basics, setup, tools, labs, vulnerability types, talks, books, blog posts, coding, mobile, and mindset. It is aimed at someone who has never run a bug bounty and wants a reading and practice path. It is a pointer list, not a learning resource in its own right.
- The split into per-topic files (vulns.md, labs.md, tools.md) lets someone jump to the category they need instead of scanning one long page.
- A dedicated labs and testing environments file matters more for beginners than another article would, since this work is mostly hands-on.
- It includes a Mindset and Mental Health file, which most resource lists skip. Rejection and burnout are real problems for people starting out in bounties.
- It is plain Markdown with no build step, so forking it, pruning dead entries, or adding notes is easy.
- The last push was July 2024 and the README is labelled version 2023.01. That is more than two years without updates as of today, so expect dead links and tools that have moved or been abandoned.
- Entries are bare links with no notes on what each one is good for or where it falls short. A beginner has to open each one to decide whether it is worth their time.
- The top of the README leads with the maintainer's own course, streams and Discord before any actual list. That reads as a funnel and shapes how the whole repo comes across.
- There is no code, so nothing can be run or tested. Its value rests entirely on link quality, which the README alone cannot show.