US charges alleged extortionist, HeheStreams operator with demanding $150K from MLB

U.S. prosecutors have charged a 30-year-old man with attempting to extort Major League Baseball and broadcasting illegal game streams after he allegedly breached the league’s website. Attorneys from the Southern District of New York charged Joshua Streit with running HeheStreams.com, a website that allowed users to stream games from the MLB, National Hockey League, National Basketball Association and the National Football League for a fee, according to a complaint. The site attracted a sizable following on social media and discussion forums like Reddit, where fans congregated to praise the cheap prices HeheStreams offered in comparison to the leagues’ official streaming services, the Wall Street Journal reported. In March 2021, prosecutors say, Streit contacted MLB personnel to complain about “a lack of gratitude” after he alerted the organization about a “network vulnerability.” Streit allegedly requested $150,000 from the MLB in exchange for his apparent disclosure. An MLB executive responded to Streit […]

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Bug bounty programme ignoring me after promising a bounty for 7 months now, not paying me as well [closed]

I’ve found bug in a moderately known company when I started my bug bounty career, 7 months ago, since then I’ve found other bugs and received bounty for them on other companies, but this first company fixed the bug and promised me they’ll … Continue reading Bug bounty programme ignoring me after promising a bounty for 7 months now, not paying me as well [closed]

Bug bounty programme ignoring me after promising a bounty for 7 months now, not paying me as well [closed]

I’ve found bug in a moderately known company when I started my bug bounty career, 7 months ago, since then I’ve found other bugs and received bounty for them on other companies, but this first company fixed the bug and promised me they’ll … Continue reading Bug bounty programme ignoring me after promising a bounty for 7 months now, not paying me as well [closed]

Can I escalate a main domain SSTI/RCE to all the subdomains belonging to that domain?

I’m a newbie ethical hacker and bug bounty hunter. Lets, assume my target is somethingtohack.com, the thing is the company’s scope defines that the main domain is out of scope, but subdomains like subdomain.somethingtohack.com are in scope… Continue reading Can I escalate a main domain SSTI/RCE to all the subdomains belonging to that domain?

CISA launches US federal vulnerability disclosure platform

Bug hunters who want to help the US federal government secure their online assets can now source all the relevant information from a vulnerability disclosure policy (VDP) platform offered by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). … Continue reading CISA launches US federal vulnerability disclosure platform

Does Windows Server ship with any sensitive images in the filesystem?

I’m working with an interesting vulnerability I found which enables local file inclusion (LFI) on a target server. In summary, there is a PDF generation API endpoint which accepts an HTML string as input. In return, it will render the HTML… Continue reading Does Windows Server ship with any sensitive images in the filesystem?