A Hacker is a criminal who breaks into systems illegally. A Bug Bounty Hunter is someone who is hired professionally by a company to penetrate and test vulnerabilities in a company’s software systems. However Sometimes real Hackers are hired as contractors to penetrate some systems, These are known as ethical hackers, Bug bounty hunters are more like  software breakers.

Are Bug Bounty Hunters Hackers?

Bug Bounty Hunters Are Ethical hackers, they perform the same functions that a black hat hacker would, the difference is they are doing it for ethical reasons. Essentially their role is to find bugs in a system, or software and find ways that the software might not work.

Is bug bounty hunting hard to learn?

I wouldn’t look at in terms of hard or easy, if you can read a book and follow simple directions, I would say that anything could be fairly easy.
However, Bug Hunting is one of those things that will take practice and passion. The more you do something the better you get at it.

When I first started college, I swore I’d never stop peck typing on the keyboard, and with just repetitive practice, I’m at 80 wpm easy. So I’d say over time it gets easier. When you love what you do it just makes it feel easier, but nothing is without some sort of effort. so if this isn’t something you would love to do then it’s not ever going to get easier for you.

Do what you love, and you will love what you do.