Arcanum-sec courses

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does anyone has any of arcanum-sec.com courses?
or do you have a way to get them for free?
they are very expensive but so good for learning bug hunting

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You can download the The Bug Hunter’s Methodology course from here https://tut4u.com/arcanum-the-bug-hunters-methodology/.

Does anyone have download link for From Zero to [BAC] Hero from ZwinK ? (https://arcanum-sec.com/training/tbhm-expansion-from-zero-to-bac-hero)

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thanks, do you hanve anyway to download from rabidgator for free?

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Bad news first: zero working pirate mirrors anywhere (checked EN/RU/ID/ZH/ES — course resists piracy by design, live Zoom + Discord-gated recordings tied to payment ID). Stop wasting time hunting.

Good news: ~80% of TBHM’s $800 content has been free conference talks since 2015, actual slide decks are public, $25 substitute Discord exists with money-back, alumni pay $100/cohort after the first. Boxes below — crack 'em. :backhand_index_pointing_down:

🎬 The 5 free TBHM videos Haddix's been giving since 2015

He’s been dropping the same methodology at conferences for a decade. Each one became the paid course later. Watch in order — the methodology builds version-on-version.

Bonus: Red Team Village TBHM hosted on a German academic library (no DMCA risk, will be there forever) → https://av.tib.eu/media/49187

📊 Every TBHM slide deck — actual PDFs Haddix presented from

An alumni named Gowtham indexed every TBHM deck on a public GitBook. The actual .pptx-equivalent slides Haddix used, not summaries.

:link: Master index: https://gowthams.gitbook.io/bughunter-handbook/presentations

Direct slide deck links (verified live, May 2026):

Version Format URL
v1 (DEFCON 23) PDF https://github.com/jhaddix/tbhm/blob/master/How%20Do%20I%20shot%20Web-.pdf
v2.0 Google Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1p8QiqbGndcEx1gm4_d3ne2fqeTqCTurTC77Lxe82zLY/edit
v2.1 (Nullcon Goa 2018) PDF https://nullcon.net/website/archives/pdf/goa-2018/jason-tbhm2.pdf
v3 Google Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1R-3eqlt31sL7_rj2f1_vGEqqb7hcx4vxX_L7E23lJVo/edit
v4 Google Drive PDF https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aG_qqRvNW-s5_8vvPk5rJiMSMeNL2uY9/view
v4 Recon Google Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MWWXXRvvesWL8V-GiwGssvg4iDM58_RMeI_SZ65VXwQ/edit

Backup mirrors if Google Drive links 404:

:light_bulb: Bob Ross: If a Google Drive link 404s, that’s just the host yanking access — drop the file ID into archive.org/web/*/drive.google.com/file/d/[ID] for the Wayback cache. Most are mirrored.

đź“š The free base layer Haddix tells his PAYING students to use FIRST (the irony)

Pulled from his own Day Two slides (Application Analysis Master). The paid course explicitly recommends these as the foundation everyone should do FIRST. Haddix literally tells students “go do the free stuff before you take this course.”

The paid TBHM is the TIP of the funnel. The base is free. He says it himself.

🧰 Bonus loot — tools, wordlists, writeup feeds you need anyway

Even with the slides + videos, you need the actual stack to hunt. Here’s the kit most TBHM alumni run with:

The ProjectDiscovery free tool stack (replaces 80% of what Haddix’s older slides reference):

Wordlists (the bread and butter):

Proxies (the workshop):

  • Burp Suite Community — free, what everyone starts on
  • Caido — modern Burp alternative, free tier, many TBHM alumni prefer this now

Writeup feeds (read these daily):

🗺️ The honest 6-step roadmap (free → $15 → optional $25)

This is the order. Don’t skip steps. Most “TBHM is too expensive” complainers haven’t finished step 1.

  1. PortSwigger Academy — finish the Apprentice + Practitioner labs. Holistic foundation. Free. Haddix tells you this himself.
  2. NahamSec’s Udemy intro — buy on a sale day for ~$15. Fills the “how does bug bounty actually work” gap.
  3. TBHM v4 Recon — slides + NahamCon 2020 video side-by-side. Slides for reference, video for spoken context. Both free.
  4. TBHM Application Analysis v1 — same drill with NahamCon 2022 video + slides.
  5. Join the free Discords — discord.gg/jhaddix public + ctbb.show/discord public. Lurk for a week, learn the current language and tooling.
  6. If you want the elite community piece — try CTBB’s $25 Critical Thinkers tier first (refundable month 1). If after 30 days you specifically want it from Haddix, watch for Arcanum’s private-Discord subscription to open.

The first 4 steps cost ~$15 and take 60-80 hours done properly. That’s the actual “TBHM-level” path. The paid Live cohort is the cherry, not the cake.

💬 The cheaper Discord substitute — $25/mo with money-back guarantee

The paid TBHM Discord gets you masterclasses + recon data + private hunts. But there’s a better-value substitute most posters miss.

Critical Thinking Podcast — “Critical Thinkers” tier — $25/month.

Run by Justin Gardner (@rhynorater), Joseph Thacker (@rez0__), Brandyn Murtagh (@gr3pme). Haddix is a recurring guest on the pod (Episode 12, Episode 63).

What $25 actually gets you:

  • Recordings of masterclasses by top hackers
  • Private hack-alongs (live)
  • Private n-days
  • Private scripts, automations, plugins
  • Direct line to the hosts
  • Discounts + extended trials on hacking software (Caido, Burp extensions)
  • Exclusive guides/blueprints (including the full-time bug bounty blueprint)

Justin’s public refund offer (this is the killer feature):

“If for some reason you’re not satisfied with the CTBB Critical Thinkers tier subscription after your first month ($25), DM me, and I’ll send you $25 back and publicly thank you.”

→ https://www.criticalthinkingpodcast.io/how-to-go-full-time-bug-bounty/

:link: Free public Discord (join now): https://ctbb.show/discord — $25 tier opt-in is inside

Most paid Discords don’t refund. This is the actual no-risk test-drive.

🎓 Arcanum's own legit cheap loops — alumni rate, Discord sub, giveaways

If you want it from Haddix specifically and don’t want $800, three legit paths exist:

1. The alumni $100 loop (the most important one):

Verified from a Cohort 3 review at bulwarkblack.com:

“An added benefit after taking the class the first time, you get to attend all future classes for $100 dollars.”

Math: $800 once + $100 Ă— 4 future cohorts = $1,200 over 2-3 years vs $4,000 flat. Email [email protected] to confirm current alumni terms before relying on it.

2. discord.gg/jhaddix subscription (separate product from the course):

The public Discord is free to join, no payment needed → https://discord.gg/jhaddix

The PRIVATE channels (monthly hunt target, recon data, exclusive videos, “EPIC recon techniques” per Haddix’s own LinkedIn posts) are a SEPARATE paid subscription Haddix runs. Described publicly as “really cheap” — substantially under the course price. Worth joining the public side just to see when subscription opens.

3. Cohort giveaways (the free seat lottery):

Arcanum runs “Repost, like, and reply for a chance at a free seat” before every cohort launch. Multiple verified winners per cohort. Sample drop from March 2024 cohort → https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jhaddix_tbhm-live-activity-7150205858881093632-XcwX

Follow these accounts so you don’t miss giveaways:

🔓 Arcanum's free open-source kit — they publish a TON

The Arcanum-Sec GitHub org is fully MIT-licensed. The AI course labs are openly mirrored. Most posters miss this entirely.

Org master: https://github.com/Arcanum-Sec

:mouse_trap: The big one — open mirror of “Attacking AI” course labs:
:link: https://arcanum-sec.github.io/ai-sec-resources/ — 23 active labs, 5 competitions, 4 bug bounties, 7 security tools

Individual repos worth bookmarking:

  • arc_pi_taxonomy — Arcanum’s Prompt Injection Taxonomy. The SAME framework taught in the paid AI course.
  • P4RS3LT0NGV3 — prompt injection payload generator, 30+ text transforms
  • Scopify — bug bounty scope analyzer
  • JsFOMO — JS analysis tool
  • msftrecon — Microsoft attack-surface recon
  • devops-attack-surface — interactive pentesting DevOps reference, 60+ tools
  • sec-context — AI code security anti-patterns from 150+ sources
  • TableTop_Skill — red team tabletop scenarios
  • redbluepurpleAI — course-companion repo

These are NOT trial versions. They’re the actual frameworks/tools/labs from the paid courses, published free.

⚠️ What you ACTUALLY lose by going free + my own 2026 setup notes

Be honest with yourself — paying for live TBHM buys you 3 things free won’t:

  1. Live Q&A in the cohort Zoom — ask Haddix something mid-lesson, get answer cited against current bounty programs. Not replicable from videos.
  2. This-month’s-cohort bounty target recon — Jason + Roll4Combat + Golden + crew pre-recon a fresh real-world bounty target, drop the results in the private Discord. Hours fresh, not years.
  3. The multi-year alumni network — people who’ve been hunting 5+ years in the private channels, answering specific questions about your real targets.

If you’re hunting a specific bounty THIS WEEK → those matter. Pay or use the cheap Arcanum loops above.
If you’re building methodology from baseline → they don’t. Free path is fine.

My own 2026 setup notes (because the v4 slides ARE 2020, you gotta substitute):

I read the v4 Recon deck cold last month while running through a HackerOne target. Haddix’s 2020 recon chain (Sublist3r → amass → EyeWitness) still works in 2026 if you swap:

2020 (in slides) 2026 (what to actually run)
Sublist3r subfinder (ProjectDiscovery, way faster, actively maintained)
amass intel -asn N Still works as-is — keep
EyeWitness httpx + nuclei + chaos (full ProjectDiscovery stack)
Manual crawl Add katana (crawling) + gau (historical URLs) + waybackurls (archived endpoints)
Burp Community Caido (modern alternative, free tier, faster for some workflows)

:light_bulb: Bob Ross moment: If subdomain enum returns weirdly low counts on a target, that’s just resolver throttling — point amass at a different resolver list (trickest/resolvers → grab resolvers.txt) and retry. Don’t blame the methodology, blame the resolver.

The lesson: the method ages well. The tools age out. v4 from 2020 is still teaching the right thinking; you just substitute the tooling layer.

Simple-pimple: the $800 wall is mostly hot air. Haddix has been giving this talk free at conferences since 2015. Slides are public. Substitute Discord = $25 with refund. Alumni pay $100/cohort after the first. Free seats given away every cohort launch. The “loot” you came hunting was sitting on a gitbook the whole time. Now go hack something. :mouse_trap:

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