September 26, 2026
Finding Hidden Bug Bounty Programs Outside HackerOne
Introduction
By OWL
1 min read
Introduction
We all been hit with duplicates on platforms like Hackerone, Bugcrowd, Intrigriti and other platforms. But what if I told you that you can hunt on programs where there is almost no other hunters hunting on them. The competition is way less there which won't make you hate yourself cuz of duplicates so without further talking I'm gonna show you how to find them
Note
Before you start check my youtube channel I already uploaded a video explaining how to find these programs if you wanna watch a video instead of reading
Google dorking
First method you can use to find external bug bounty programs is google dorking, all you gotta do it to find a nice dork and start using it to look for programs
Whole list of dorks is right here on my github
👉 https://github.com/owl011/External-bugbounty-programs/blob/main/google-dorks.txt
How to use this dorks is to take a dork and to paste it in the search bar of chrome, you can also filter for the latest program by going to :
Tools -> anytime -> past month
Which will give you the programs that has been updates within the last month
Other sites
Moving on to the other method which is using sites that will find these programs to you
There are mainly 3 sites I use for this which are
FireBounty | The Ultimate Vulnerability Disclosure Policy and Bug Bounty List! FireBounty, aggregate your bounty
VDP Programs Search vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty programs in our database.
Bug Bounty Program List | Bugcrowd The most comprehensive, up-to-date crowdsourced bug bounty list and vulnerability disclosure programs from across the…
Each of these websites offers you lots of external bug bounty programs to find and hunt on instead of going out there and searching yourself
Important Notes
Before you hunt on any of these programs check their policy, scope, hall of fame, anything that shows they are legit. If everything checks out they it's all goodd and you can start hunting but if there are things that doesn't stand out then they are probabily a scam and won't reply back
That was all for this blog if you found this useful don't forget the 50 claps and check my youtube channel where I share my cybersecurity knowledge for everyone
👉 YouTube