• Irish/Japanese web/AI hacker from Cork, living in Scotland • Founder @StarstrikeAI • BT6 Operator • Newsletter @ monke.ie
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🐵 MonkeHacks #101
Cork LHE, Moving, Prompt2Pwn
monke.ie/p/monkehacks-101
#bugbountytips #hacktheplanet #BugBounty
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Bug bounty these days is like:
"We regret to inform you that BigStinkyCompany is pausing all submissions until further notice. We're excited to add "subdomain.stinky.com" to our assets after this break, but we're lowering our Medium and Low payouts in line with industry standards"
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I wish more tokens were spent on making existing software more efficient instead of generating new slop code
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I’ve been strongly considering creating a YouTube channel for MonkeHacks in parallel with the newsletters. I don’t make money on it, so it’s just for fun. And I think it would be nice to have some more resources out there on hacking AI and navigating the bug bounty landscape rn.
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Are you feeling lost in the age of AI in bug bounty?
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344 votes • Final results
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This tree analogy is good
Here's an example from nature that I find fits well. A tree that is 10% taller than its neighbor doesn't just get 10% more light; it secures a multiplier that allows it to grow exponentially faster. So thhe taller tree expands its leaves, captures a disproportionate share of light, and casts a shadow below. The slightly shorter tree receives a fraction of the multiplier (less light), stunts further, and eventually dies from light starvation.
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Hacking for the sake of it is what it’s all about
New blog post :) 😊 hacking nethack to get #1 on the leaderboard!
shout out to @7urb01 for being the inspiration
josephthacker.com/hacking/20…
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One of the problems with bug bounty is that you can report the most severe bug that the company may ever see in its lifetime and it'll sit in platform triage queues for a few days before the team even sees it
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It’s easy to get swept along by the hype, but remember that AI cannot, in fact, do everything.
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🐵 MonkeHacks #100
Reykjavik, Def Con, Next Steps
monke.ie/p/monkehacks-100
#bugbountytips #hacktheplanet #BugBounty
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I'm in Sweden now to unwind after Def Con. Nice 22 degree weather, no more stinky 45 degrees. 3 days of not thinking about hacking or AI and then back to tokenmaxxing 💀
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“Security researchers are doomed because of AI.”
I kept hearing versions of this, so I went back through 500 years of people saying the same thing every time a machine learned a human skill.
Some were idiots.
Some were right.
Here’s where I landed.
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Watching my hackbot run is like getting treated to many show and tells of insane quality. What an age to live in
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Adding to this. I bet the bug bounty companies want us to go into their underpaid pentests, it’s where they make most of their money…
ngl, "quit bug bounty to go into pentesting" is probably some of the worst advice i've ever read
itbrew.com/stories/could-ai-…
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With 45,000 attendees, there's always gonna be an idiot or two ruining it for everyone else
NEW: Someone jammed the in-flight Wi-Fi on a Delta plane after the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas and replaced it with a malicious network.
Pilots alerted air traffic control: “We believe they are trying to scam the [other passengers].”
techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/de…
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Ciarán Cotter retweeted
after seeing the current state of HackerOne, I decided it was time to sit down and address the elephant in the room
blog.teknogeek.io/posts/what…
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