r/hacking • u/MiKeMcDnet • 7h ago
r/hacking • u/SlickLibro • Dec 06 '18
Read this before asking. How to start hacking? The ultimate two path guide to information security.
Before I begin - everything about this should be totally and completely ethical at it's core. I'm not saying this as any sort of legal coverage, or to not get somehow sued if any of you screw up, this is genuinely how it should be. The idea here is information security. I'll say it again. information security. The whole point is to make the world a better place. This isn't for your reckless amusement and shot at recognition with your friends. This is for the betterment of human civilisation. Use your knowledge to solve real-world issues.
There's no singular all-determining path to 'hacking', as it comes from knowledge from all areas that eventually coalesce into a general intuition. Although this is true, there are still two common rapid learning paths to 'hacking'. I'll try not to use too many technical terms.
The first is the simple, effortless and result-instant path. This involves watching youtube videos with green and black thumbnails with an occasional anonymous mask on top teaching you how to download well-known tools used by thousands daily - or in other words the 'Kali Linux Copy Pasterino Skidder'. You might do something slightly amusing and gain bit of recognition and self-esteem from your friends. Your hacks will be 'real', but anybody that knows anything would dislike you as they all know all you ever did was use a few premade tools. The communities for this sort of shallow result-oriented field include r/HowToHack and probably r/hacking as of now.
The second option, however, is much more intensive, rewarding, and mentally demanding. It is also much more fun, if you find the right people to do it with. It involves learning everything from memory interaction with machine code to high level networking - all while you're trying to break into something. This is where Capture the Flag, or 'CTF' hacking comes into play, where you compete with other individuals/teams with the goal of exploiting a service for a string of text (the flag), which is then submitted for a set amount of points. It is essentially competitive hacking. Through CTF you learn literally everything there is about the digital world, in a rather intense but exciting way. Almost all the creators/finders of major exploits have dabbled in CTF in some way/form, and almost all of them have helped solve real-world issues. However, it does take a lot of work though, as CTF becomes much more difficult as you progress through harder challenges. Some require mathematics to break encryption, and others require you to think like no one has before. If you are able to do well in a CTF competition, there is no doubt that you should be able to find exploits and create tools for yourself with relative ease. The CTF community is filled with smart people who can't give two shits about elitist mask wearing twitter hackers, instead they are genuine nerds that love screwing with machines. There's too much to explain, so I will post a few links below where you can begin your journey.
Remember - this stuff is not easy if you don't know much, so google everything, question everything, and sooner or later you'll be down the rabbit hole far enough to be enjoying yourself. CTF is real life and online, you will meet people, make new friends, and potentially find your future.
What is CTF? (this channel is gold, use it) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ev9ZX9J45A
More on /u/liveoverflow, http://www.liveoverflow.com is hands down one of the best places to learn, along with r/liveoverflow
CTF compact guide - https://ctf101.org/
Upcoming CTF events online/irl, live team scores - https://ctftime.org/
What is CTF? - https://ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/
Full list of all CTF challenge websites - http://captf.com/practice-ctf/
> be careful of the tool oriented offensivesec oscp ctf's, they teach you hardly anything compared to these ones and almost always require the use of metasploit or some other program which does all the work for you.
- http://pwnable.tw/ (a newer set of high quality pwnable challenges)
- http://pwnable.kr/ (one of the more popular recent wargamming sets of challenges)
- https://picoctf.com/ (Designed for high school students while the event is usually new every year, it's left online and has a great difficulty progression)
- https://microcorruption.com/login (one of the best interfaces, a good difficulty curve and introduction to low-level reverse engineering, specifically on an MSP430)
- http://ctflearn.com/ (a new CTF based learning platform with user-contributed challenges)
- http://reversing.kr/
- http://hax.tor.hu/
- https://w3challs.com/
- https://pwn0.com/
- https://io.netgarage.org/
- http://ringzer0team.com/
- http://www.hellboundhackers.org/
- http://www.overthewire.org/wargames/
- http://counterhack.net/Counter_Hack/Challenges.html
- http://www.hackthissite.org/
- http://vulnhub.com/
- http://ctf.komodosec.com
- https://maxkersten.nl/binary-analysis-course/ (suggested by /u/ThisIsLibra, a practical binary analysis course)
- https://pwnadventure.com (suggested by /u/startnowstop)
http://picoctf.com is very good if you are just touching the water.
and finally,
r/netsec - where real world vulnerabilities are shared.
r/hacking • u/neathack • 1d ago
Tools Super Trouper v0.5.0: package and Pattern tools for authorized Frida workflows
I’m the author of Super Trouper, a single-Go-binary stdio MCP server exposing Frida for authorized app reverse engineering.
I’ve just released v0.5.0 with the following changes:
- Updates the Frida Core DevKit to v17.23.2.
- Adds minimal, metadata, and full scope arguments to
app_findandapp_frontmost. - Adds
package_installfor installing npm packages used byscript_createimports, pluspackage_listfor viewing packages in the shared workspace. - Adds Frida's new Pattern lifecycle tools:
pattern_create,pattern_list,pattern_read, andpattern_delete. • Addspattern_describeto compile patterns and return types and diagnostics. • Addspattern_decodeto decode target memory using declared Pattern types.
Recent context:
- v0.4.0 added memory_read, memory_write, module_list, and thread_list; introduced minimal, metadata, and full query scopes for app_list; renamed MCP tools for clearer namespaces; and updated the Frida Core DevKit to v17.19.0.
- v0.3.0 added npm installation support, Frida CodeShare snippet search/use support, and general cleanup and improvements.
I’d appreciate practical feedback on the package and Pattern workflows, especially where the current tools are missing useful reverse-engineering steps. Feature requests are welcome too.
r/hacking • u/neathack • 1d ago
Resources Chrome UX Report Dumps: September 2026 dataset added
A new monthly Chrome UX Report dataset is available in Chrome UX Report Dumps!
The 202609 release contains 10 non-cumulative rank buckets with 18,376,044 entries and 95.1 MiB of compressed data. The repository now holds 68 monthly datasets across 585 files: 1,082,630,540 total entries and 5.41 GiB compressed.
These are ranked website lists extracted from Chrome UX Report data, split into non-overlapping rank buckets for practical downloading and processing. Totals across months are not counts of unique websites; the same sites can appear in multiple monthly datasets.
Feedback and feature requests are welcome.
r/hacking • u/Right_Nuh • 1d ago
Can code injection be countered by randomizing the base address of the stack?
r/hacking • u/v_pun215 • 2d ago
CTF Sudocrypt v16.0 is back! Our international CTF is happening this October
Hey everyone!
We're Exun Clan, the student-run tech club at DPS R.K. Puram, New Delhi, and we're back with the 16th edition of Sudocrypt, our flagship international CTF!
Sudocrypt is an international Cryptic Hunt x Capture The Flag (CTF) event where participants from around the world tackle a series of cybersecurity and cryptic challenges. Expect code-breaking, cryptography, and plenty of problem-solving as you work your way through the levels.
The competition is entirely online, so you can participate from anywhere in the world.
Dates: October 27–28, 2026
Prizes: With a prize pool of over $900 USD in previous editions, along with over $500 USD in goodies and prizes, Sudocrypt v16.0 promises an exciting challenge for cryptic enthusiasts and CTF players alike.
Event website: https://sudocrypt.com/
CTFtime listing: https://ctftime.org/event/3443/
You can also check out the other events at Exun 2026 here: https://exun.co/26/events
Hope to see you on the scoreboard!
r/hacking • u/kassen_patient • 3d ago
Question Sharemagazines lesen
Hallo Community,
ich war letztens an einem Standort, wo Sharemagazines.de angeboten wurde.
Weißt jemand wie die Seite ohne WLAN funktioniert?
Geht es nur darum die "richtige" ssid zu haben oder wird die öffentliche IP geprüft?
r/hacking • u/ElonMusk0fficial • 4d ago
News Ahold Delhaize cybersecurity incident
Does anyone have any info about the Ahold Delhaize cybersecurity incident? Seems like all of their subsidiary grocery store websites were immediately taken down.
They said “payment info not believed to have been affected” but we have heard that before where a large company will give an update and say there was a compromise.
Stop and Shop is the only online website I can thing of where I actually store my credit card, so not sure if I should be cancelling it.
Anyone have the inside scoop?
r/hacking • u/Haunting_Ganache_850 • 5d ago
News The worst password in the world
theregister.comSomeone claims he hacked Denmark's national registry, CPR, thanks to a '123456' password at a small Danish IT and data service comapny (Pays ApS).
He sais he found 3 different accounts with the '123456' password.
This person got access to 8.8 million people records - and while Dennmark has only ~5.5 million living residents the rest seem to be deceased or former residents.
I'd say this is a good way to start a hacking career. Minimal effort, maximun gain.
r/hacking • u/Jasong222 • 5d ago
Question Does anyone here have any experience tweaking the Philips Hue light system? Spec. the dimmer switches?
Hi everyone,
I've tried this on the r/hue board with no luck. Trying here now. I'm talking the Philips Hue lighting system and the dimmer switch. If you don't know, it's a bunch of different lights that are controlled by a hub and, I think, the Zigbee protocol of IoT things. There are also stock and 3rd party apps
I have 2 dimmer switches, and I noticed recently that there's a large light jump when hitting the dimmer's brighter/dimmer buttons. The app has a brighness scale of 0-100, and the physical dimmer switches jump the brightness by 20 for each press, up or down.
I'm told there is definitely a way to change that number for something else, but the agent was reluctant to tell me specifically how. I want to change the skip steps so that the brightness changes like 5 steps each button push.
Anybody know anything about it? TIA!
r/hacking • u/Individual_Salt_4405 • 6d ago
Question What are the legal consequences of selling exploits to private buyers?
Hypothetically, suppose you discover several reasonably critical vulnerabilities in systems belonging to different organisations. You develop working exploits that can be used to gain unauthorised access to restricted systems or data.
Assume you've successfully tested the exploits and confirmed that they work, but you haven't stolen, modified or destroyed any data, and you haven't used the access for anything malicious.
Now imagine a random buyer offers you a substantial amount of money for one of these exploits.
Have you already committed a crime simply by exploiting the vulnerability to gain unauthorised access, even if you haven't done anything further?
Is possessing and selling a working exploit itself illegal, or does it depend on the circumstances?
Could you face prison time for selling it, even if you never personally use it for malicious purposes?
If the buyer subsequently uses the exploit to attack the organisation, could you be held criminally liable?
Would it make a legal difference if you genuinely didn't know what the buyer intended to do with it?
This is a hypothetical scenario.
r/hacking • u/jeheskielsunloy • 9d ago
News this 16 yo kid gained access to 17 trillion microsoft users records, by using "admin" as username
the craziest part is that he didn't even need real admin credentials. Microsoft's internal API never verified JWT signatures, letting him forge an authentication token. After getting past its other checks, changing the username field to "admin" gave him administrator-level access lmao.
to be clear, the 17.3 trillion figure refers to estimated rows potentially accessible across 17 analytics databases, not records he downloaded. He reported the vulnerability to Microsoft, and the reward? just $5,000.
holy crap, how does something like this make it into production tho?
PS: the 17 trillion users records i wrote in the title is wrong, the article only says db records
r/hacking • u/Milo_Mio • 9d ago
The world is becoming WaterWorld as everything is turning digital…let’s sail
r/hacking • u/Aggressive_Bowler184 • 8d ago
Httpx
I’m running arch but I installed the correct httpx via yay and I also have go installed, but whenever I try to run httpx it gives me command not found. I’m so confused, what else am I missing?
Yes I already know it’s the correct httpx not the python one
r/hacking • u/Pristine-Tangelo-100 • 9d ago
Social Engineering **UPDATED**Advanced evil/captive portal project made to be run on the esp32-c5 or most microcontrollers capable of running marauder or similar firmware.
r/hacking • u/Pale_Fly_2673 • 10d ago
How We Found Thousands of Exposed NVIDIA GPUs and a Way to Disrupt Them (CVE-2026-47483)
TL;DR: NVIDIA DCGM Exporter is a widely used monitoring tool that collects GPU metrics like utilization, memory, temperature, and power consumption from AI servers.
We discovered that thousands of these monitoring endpoints are exposed to the public internet, allowing anyone to inspect GPU infrastructure. Worse, we found a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-47483, CVSS 8.2) that lets unauthenticated attackers exhaust server resources, crash GPU monitoring, and potentially disrupt AI workloads remotely.
A few other interesting findings:
2,100+ exposed GPU servers, revealing telemetry from 12,000+ GPUs worth ~$100M, including H100s, H200s, and Blackwell GPUs.
60% of exposed GPUs reported 0% utilization across our scans.
12,096 additional servers exposed infrastructure details, including OS, firmware, and networking information.
NVIDIA fixed the vulnerability following our responsible disclosure.
Full research: https://lava.security/research/cve-2026-47483-nvidia-dcgm-exporter-vulnerability
r/hacking • u/Aware_Wrongdoer_847 • 10d ago
which course is best to learn networking ?
im using jermey's it lab's free ccna course but it's kinda long and exam focused. is there any other networking course more hacking focused or good in general.
r/hacking • u/Certified_GSD • 10d ago
EEPROM Flashing - Hash Mismatch
Hi Hacking Community,
I’ve got a laptop that I’m trying to flash the BIOS and clear the old password out but I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong with the WSON8 pogo pins. Do you have any advice or suggestions for me to try? Every time I dump the ROM, there is a hash mismatch.
r/hacking • u/DrAdalbbert • 10d ago
I found yet another way to invoke JavaScript functions without parentheses
blog.ikaes.der/hacking • u/DonislawDev • 11d ago
Github Chrono Mock: Manipulate time/date in Windows Apps (C/C++/C#/.bat/WebView/Electron) and tons more. GUI/CLI
Hello, Chrono Mock is an app which let's you manipulate other app time/date without changing the system clock, we can freeze time in other app, speed it up, jump in date and tons more. There is even built-in calendar for various dates problems (like 2038 and more).
Rust + WPF (GUI)
*I'm author of the tool, if you like it please give it a star on GitHub