🥳🎉 Congratulations, digital locksmith! You've managed to trick AWS with a trailing slash, earning a whopping $12,000 for adding punctuation like a grammar vigilante. 🧐 Apparently, security now hangs by a thread, or rather, a single character—truly groundbreaking stuff in the world of #fintech babysitting. 🔓💰
https://theguptalog.blogspot.com/2026/04/i-bypassed-aws-api-gateway-auth-with.html #digitallocksmith #AWSsecurity #cybersecurity #punctuationhack #HackerNews #ngated
I bypassed AWS API Gateway auth with a trailing slash. Got $12K bounty.

I was poking at a fintech’s mobile API and noticed something that made no sense. GET /v1/accounts returned 401. GET /v1/accounts/ returned...