I was a professional penetration tester for no more than 10 years but no less than 5. I'm good at what I do but nothing crazy. I'm wondering if any one can tell me what the most profitable ways to use my skills would be.
SIM swapping used to be big, so were pump and dumps in crypto. The field isn't what it used to be. Would appreciate any one letting me know about up and coming fields and opportunities I can get in on given my skills.
I'm also pretty solid with programming websites and operations work.

Banks would definitely have a use for your skills as the pandemic situation has seen a significant increase of attacks against their software and infrastructure

(July 19, 2022, 03:00 AM)onetwothreefour Wrote: Banks would definitely have a use for your skills as the pandemic situation has seen a significant increase of attacks against their software and infrastructure

Thanks! Do you know any opportunities that might be more underground and lucrative? I see a lot of people here making a lot of money, even sometimes through simple SE attacks. Something like that where I can put my skills to use.

(July 19, 2022, 03:33 PM)bagr0v Wrote:

(July 19, 2022, 03:00 AM)onetwothreefour Wrote: Banks would definitely have a use for your skills as the pandemic situation has seen a significant increase of attacks against their software and infrastructure

Thanks! Do you know any opportunities that might be more underground and lucrative? I see a lot of people here making a lot of money, even sometimes through simple SE attacks. Something like that where I can put my skills to use.

Unfortunately, I dont have much knowledge on the underground and lucrative opportunities. I hope someone can give you some leads on this. Goodluck !

Bug bounties are always profitable, but it's kinda hard to do full time since you get rly big paychecks in between rly big gaps of time.

(October 16, 2022, 08:15 PM)s1l3n5 Wrote: Bug bounties are always profitable, but it's kinda hard to do full time since you get rly big paychecks in between rly big gaps of time.

Yeah, you are right. Even google offers opportunity viz: https://bughunters.google.com/report/targets
So you can go:
1. Bug Hunting
2. Database Hunting and sale
3.Online Teaching of PenTest
4.Online Consultancy