Ethical Hacking / Penetesting & Bug Bounty Hunting 2025 (Udemy.com)
Complete Practical Course on Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing and Bug Bounty Hunting with Live Attacks 2025
Created by: Dr. Rohit Gautam
Last updated May 2025
What you will learn
- OWASP 10 and Fundamentals
- OWASP Top 10 2013 vs 2017
- Bug Bounty Hunting - Live
- Tips and Tricks to hunt bugs
- BreakDown of Hackerone Reports for better understanding
- Interview Preparation Questions Answers and Approach
- Web Application Penetration Testing - Live
- Become a bug bounty hunters & Hunt on Live Websites
- Intercept requests using a Burpsuite proxy
- Gain full control over target server using Authentication Bypass Attacks
- Gain full control over target server using Captcha Bypass Attacks
- Gain full control over target server using OTP /2FA Bypass Attacks
- Discover Vulnerabilities, technologies & services used on target website.
- Authentication Bypass Interview Questions and Answers
- Hunt Basic XSS Vulnerabilities on Live Environments
- Exploit and perform Acccount Takeovers on Live websites
- Authentication Bypass Mitigations and Fixes
How it compares
Against the other 523 rated Udemy courses in Hacking on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 51% of them
- Reviews2,257#96 of 524 by number of reviews
- Length11.4 hourslonger than 76% of them
- Last updatedMay 2025earlier than 52% of them
Course Description
Welcome to Ethical Hacking / Penetration Testing and Bug Bounty Hunting Course. This course covers web application attacks and how to earn bug bounties. There is no prerequisite of prior hacking knowledge and you will be able to perform web attacks and hunt bugs on live websites and secure them.
This course is not like other hacking or penetration testing course with outdated vulnerabilities and only lab attacks. This contains maximum live websites to make you comfortable with the Live Hunting Environment.
This course will start from basic principles of each vulnerability and How to attack them using multiple bypass techniques, In addition to exploitation, you will also learn how to fix them.
This course is highly practical and is made on Live websites to give you the exact environment when you start your penetrating testing or bug hunting journey.
We will start from the basics of OWASP to the exploitation of vulnerabilities leading to Account Takeover on live websites.
This course is divided into a number of sections, each section covers how to hunt, exploit and mitigate a vulnerability in an ethical manner.
After identification of a vulnerability, we will exploit to leverage the maximum severity out of it. We will also learn how to fix vulnerabilities which are commonly found on the websites on the internet.
In this course, you will also learn How can you start your journey on many famous bug hunting platforms like Bugcrowd, Hackerone and Open Bug Bounty.
Along with this, you will be able to hunt and report vulnerabilities to NCIIPC Government of India, also to private companies and to their responsible disclosure programs.
You will also learn Advance techniques to bypass filters and the developers logic for each kind of vulnerability. I have also shared personal tips and tricks for each attacks where you can trick the application and find bugs quickly.
This course also includes the Breakdown of all Hackerone Reports which are found and submitted by other hackers for better understanding as we will cover each type of technique in the course.
This course also includes important interview questions and answers which will be helpful in any penetrating testing job interview.
Here's a more detailed breakdown of the course content:
In all the sections we will start the fundamental principle of How the attack works, Exploitation and How to defend from those attacks.
In OWASP, We will cover what is OWASP and Top 10 vulnerabilities.
We will also understand what is the difference between owasp 2013 vs 2017.
1. In Cross site scripting XSS, we will cover all diff types of attacks like Reflected XSS, Stored XSS and DOM XSS. In addition, we will learn Advance Exploitation for Limited Inputs and Filter Bypass.
We will see all the types of XSS attacks on live websites which will give you a better understanding of the live environment when you will start your bug hunting journey.
We will also cover different ways to perform XSS Exploitation using multiple types of payloads like Phishing, File Upload, Cookie Stealing and Redirection.
We will also see the exploitation of Blind XSS which generally other researchers miss out.
This course also includes a breakdown of all the Hackerone reports submitted by other hackers for XSS type of vulnerability wherein we will see and practice all types of attacks in our course.
In the end, we will also cover mitigations to secure a website and prevent these types of attacks.
In the end, I have added Interview Questions and answers which be helpful for you when XSS questions are asked in any job or internship.
2. In Authentication Bypass, we will cover all diff types of ways to attack like OTP Bypass, 2FA Bypass, Captcha bypass, Email Verification Bypass etc. So we will perform all the ways to attack protection on websites.
We will see all the types of Authentication bypass on live websites which will give you a better understanding of the live environment when you will start your bug hunting journey.
We will also cover different ways to perform Auth Bypass Exploitation using different techniques.
This course also includes a breakdown of all the Hackerone reports submitted by other hackers for Authentication Bypass type of vulnerability wherein we will see and practice all types of attacks in our course.
In the end, we will also cover mitigations to secure a website and prevent these types of attacks.
I have added Interview Questions and answers which be helpful for you when Auth Bypass questions are asked in any job or internship.
3. In No Rate-Limit Attacks, we will check this vulnerability for different injection points, In addition, we will learn how to find these types of vulnerabilities in signup/creation of account or Login using password or verification of OTP or Tokens.
We will see all the types of No Rate-Limit attacks on live websites which will give you a better understanding of the live environment when you will start your bug hunting journey.
We will also cover different ways to perform No RL Exploitation using multiple types by automated spoofing our IP address on each request the same way this bug was found on Instagram and was awarded $15000 bounty.
We will also cover how to throttle our requests by changing the requests and giving delay between each simultaneous request to bypass IDS and RateLimit checkers on the server-side.
We will also see the exploitation of No RL on various injection points which generally other researchers miss out.
This course also includes a breakdown of all the Hackerone reports submitted by other hackers for No RL type of vulnerability wherein we will see and practice all types of attacks in our course.
In the end, we will also cover mitigations to secure a website and prevent these types of attacks.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
2,257 Reviews
Dr. Rohit Gautam
I am Rohit Gautam the CEO & Founder of Hacktify Cyber Security, I have a PhD in cyber security.
I have been awarded as Cyber Security Samurai of the year by Bsides Bangalore in year 2023, 2024.
I am into Cyber Security Training for many years. Students have loved my courses and given 5 star Ratings and made Bestseller on Udemy
My students have been in the Top 15 Cyber Security Researchers of India twice in a Row.
Apart from training's, I'm a security researcher with special interest in network exploitation and web application security analysis and Red Teaming
I have worked for all the topmost banks of India in their VAPT Team.
I have worked with ICICI, Kotak, IDFC bank I have also experience working with NSDL and some financial organizations like Edelweiss
I have worked on many private projects with NTRO & Govt of India.
I was acknowledged with Swag, Hall of Fame, Letter Of Appreciation, and Monetary rewards by Google, Facebook, Conclusion, Seek, Trip Advisor, Riddlr, Hakon, Acorns, Faasos, and many more companies for finding out vulnerabilities in their organization and responsibly reporting it.
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Reviews
By Ankit Chimariya on 2/21/2022
i am editing this because first off all i am angry that when ever i dont understand the techincal aspects the course support do not clearify the process and rohit he do not make it understand able to beginner like us i didnt understand even 1% in xss protection bypass there is no any lab and nothing to practice on we just come here and see video and go they say to practice in portswigger labs guys?? we are just a beginner we paid you it doesnt mean that you can do what ever you want really very very dis appointed by u guys.
By Shubham Sambhaji Panchal on 8/26/2020
I personally recommend this course who want to start their carrier in web application penetration testing.Most of the vulnerabilities are covered in this course.Teaching skill of the creator is "Lit",Hats off to their hard-work for making this course . Pros : 1.No Rate Limit 2.Auth Bypass 3.XSS 4.Account TakeOver 5.Report Templates that given by Instructor 6.Latest exploits Cons : 1.Why SQLi is not here ? Again this course is awesome ! Full ``Paisa Vasool`` Rohit Sir | Shifa Ma'am, Thank You
By Prateek Shukla on 8/1/2020
The course content is very specific and understandable. Being a beginner, seeing hunting on live websites will be more exciting for us to learn. Bug-hunting on live sites truly gives you the inspiration and definite feel to hunt. All the lessons, and techniques to approach I've gained from here, have been using by me in live sites. However, I simply need to feature that, some piece of the lectures needs more clarification. (Note: It is fully understandable to me and I've no complaint or problems in it). But, I request to sir, that some brief timeframe on the lectures would be more helpful for students. Explicitly discussing of CSRF and CORS. The best thing about this course is, it is continually being refreshed all through the occasions. Discussing all the most recent vulnerabilities found in F5 networks and Cisco. This is something that I've not found in other platforms (i.e. as a beginner-friendly). These some recent vulnerabilities have been beautifully explained by the sir. Regards :)
By Rakesh Rajappan Nair on 7/16/2020
This review is to someone who is deciding if you should buy this course or not. I have tried a few bug bounty courses on Udemy, watched several videos on youtube, read many write-ups and reports on bug hunting and couldn't get anywhere. I have also come across quite a few guys who got lost in their way just like me. I am glad that I came across this course and could make my 1st report in 3 days from taking it. In the next 10 days I could report 17 bugs, (though few of them were duplicates). Unlike in other courses where the hunting is done on preset outdated hackable labs, here the instructor does the hunting on live websites, which actually helps you understand the ideas better. If you're a beginner (even if you're with zero knowledge on programming and web designing) this is one course which would give you that kick start or bring you back in track if you are lost.
By Anonymized User on 6/25/2020
Let me explain why I rate it with 3.5 start: It covers only 5 type of bugs (look at the course highlight for the names). I understand there can not be any training/course which can over all type of bugs because can be unlimited types. But seeing the course name as I expected for more coverage. But yes, the bugs Rohit covered in the course are neat, clean and awesome. I expected more bug types to be covered from this course. At the end I am looking forward to see other course from Rohit with more bug types. I will but that surely :-)
By Bug Hunter on 6/11/2020
This course is simply amazing, thanks to Rohit sir and Shifa ma'am for making such an informative course, that begins from the very beginner level and covers advanced level, impact, hands-on practical, live hunting, POC, mitigation of the most common vulnerabilities, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for making such a complete course, that even teaches a beginner to get a kick start in the field of bug hunting. The QnA forum is very active, sir is very knowledgeable, and has experience of what he's teaching. I can't stress further how much I must recommend this course to someone who wants to get an impressive start in this field. Sir and ma'am, I'm looking forward to your next bug hunting or penetration testing courses, and thanks again for such a masterpiece. Also thanks for updating the course and adding CVE 2020-5902 RCE vulnerability, as well as releasing your API key for everyone to use.
By Vidhun Sahayaraj on 6/2/2020
I am a newbie to this area. I was impressed by the Authentication bypass section. Thanks to the author but in the xss section till 52 he is showing different kinda apporaches to show reflective xss . This shows how practical experience he has. Here I would like to know what will be the impact to the website of just showing the pop up . Will it be a big issue . It would be good if he includes the impact of the website for the activity we perform. This review is only for the xss section till 52.
By Ritik kaushik on 6/2/2020
As when i started this course i was a beginner and know very few things in this field but after the completion I got so much in it I took much time to complete as i was discovering about all these and hunting websites. So i would like to thanks Mr. Rohit Gautam sir for such a great Course for beginners. And know i am going to start next course from Hacktify .
By Tarun Dadlani on 5/24/2020
It was a great experience learning from this with Rohit Gautam in such a precise and concise manner of teaching. Every topic was to the point. This course was full of live hunting, even some of the best courses lack this content. For a beginner in EH, One must opt for this course. I am a complete newbie to EH. I had a great time learning a new skill in this lockdown. Suggestions: You explained almost every kind of bug with most of the cases considered, but I would like to mention that live sessions were great but it should contain some more explanation while telling about bugs, vulnerablities. The lecture in which a technique to identify the bug can be done with more explanation, this is my opinion as I am completely new to this window of technology. And you can provide some reading materials like books, some links to articles or places where articles are germane to course. I surely enjoyed the course. Thank you
By Jagpreet Singh Bhatia on 5/17/2020
The course indeed was a good one. The credit goes to the author for his hard work for curating such a beautiful course. All the concepts are been explained in a crystal clear way. Moreover the pace of the course is perfect for anyone to match up. Before taking up this course I was very confused as to where I should start my journey into Bug Hunting but after taking up this course I have gained a lot of confidence and now I can proceed for my hunt with ease.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100






