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🐞 How to Start Bug Bounty in 2025 — A Realistic Guide from a Security Researcher
How to Start Bug Bounty in 2025 — Realistic Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Learn how to start bug bounty hunting in 2025 — step-by-step plan, tools, daily routine, report template, and niche strategies to scale your earnings.
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OG Title: How to Start Bug Bounty in 2025 — A Realistic Guide from a Security Researcher
OG Description: Practical, hands-on roadmap for beginners: learn fundamentals, pick a niche, build a workflow, write winning reports, and grow your reputation.
Overview:
2025 is prime time to start bug bounty — but it’s competitive. Focus on fundamentals (HTTP, auth, OWASP Top 10), pick one platform and a niche, build a repeatable workflow, practice consistently (2–4 hrs/day), and learn to write clear PoCs and reports. Small, steady wins scale into real income.
Intro — Hook
If you love taking things apart and finding how they break, bug bounty is for you — but 2025 is tougher than ever. More automation, smarter triage teams, and new attack surfaces (like AI systems and cloud-native infra) mean…
