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It's Your Vendor. It's Your Customer's Data.

How the bug bounty industry's third-party loophole leaves real users exposed.

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Research · Web App

Bypassing Input Filters to Land Reflected XSS via URL Encoding

A client-side input filter on a fleet management portal's search function looked solid — until I encoded the payload. A walkthrough of how Google dorking, a filter bypass, and an obscure event handler combined into a confirmed reflected XSS.

Apr 2026 · 5 min read

Research · Mobile

What's Inside the APK: Finding Hardcoded Secrets in Android Apps

Android APKs are zip archives. Everything inside them — including secrets developers assumed were hidden — is one decompile away from being readable. A walkthrough of mobile recon methodology for extracting hardcoded credentials from production apps.

Apr 2026 · 5 min read

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