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You know that feeling when you open the fridge at midnight, hoping to find some leftover pizza, but instead you discover… salad? 🥗 Yeah, recon usually feels like that.
But sometimes — just sometimes — you find that forgotten slice of biryani 🍛, wrapped in foil, waiting like buried treasure. That’s exactly how this bug bounty story went. Except instead of biryani, I found .bak files… and inside them, production gold. 💰
Let me walk you through my adventure step by step, with real payloads, proof-of-concepts, and how one backup file turned into a high-severity payout.
Mass recon is where the magic begins. I wasn’t looking for .bak files specifically; I was just doing my usual subdomain + content discovery workflow.
A mix of tools like:
subfinder -d target.com -all…