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Arvin Shivram
Personal blog · brutecat.com/articles · on HN as brutecatsecurityprogramming
Arvin Shivram writes Brutecat, a personal blog at brutecat.com about security and programming. Since 2024, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “StubZero: $148,337 RCE in Google Cloud Production”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite the article on leaking YouTube emails, a security write-up that began from reading a schema. The linked posts cover web security exploits and vulnerability research.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Long-form writeups of security research by Arvin Shivram.
Most-linked posts?
- StubZero: $148,337 RCE in Google Cloud Production3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-22
- Hacking Google with A.I. For $500k3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-06-11
- Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-12
- Disclosing YouTube Creator Emails via Content ID for $20k2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-13
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me that the recently discovered “leak emails using YouTube” exploit kicked off from reading what is essentially, a schema. https://brutecat.com/articles/leaking-youtube-emails
Comment linking /articles/leaking-youtube-emails
on “I Went to SQL Injection Court”Submitted Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k as a story · 1624 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user as a story · 615 points
HN discussionSubmitted StubZero: $148,337 RCE in Google Cloud Production as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k (2025) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disclosing YouTube Creator Emails via Content ID for $20k as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decoding Google: Converting a Black Box to a White Box as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted StubZero: $148,337 RCE in Google Cloud Production as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking Google with A.I. For $500k as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking Google with A.I. For $500k as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking Google with A.I. For $500k as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted StubZero: $148,337 RCE in Google Cloud Production as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disclosing YouTube Creator Emails for a $20k Bounty as a story · 1 points
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