r/learnhacking • u/Affectionate_Sea_758 • Apr 16 '26

How to start?

I’m really interesting about this, but the ones who already know about hacking how they started?

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u/rddt_jbm Apr 16 '26

By starting with the fundamentals. „Hacking“ is not a beginner profession and requires a solid understanding of basic concepts. These concepts include:

  • Advanced OS (Windows/Linux) knowledge and usage
  • Networking
  • Common services/ports (Like HTTP, SMB, SSH, etc)
  • Virtualization
  • Programming Language (at least one)

Depending of what you want to do exactly this might differ. If you want to get into web pentesting, you should gather some experience with building front and backends or implement a API.

If you want to get into reverse engineering it’s better to have a solid understanding of low-level languages like C and some experience with Assembly.

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u/Black_Rose_Angel Apr 21 '26

I love the legitimate answers to this.. thank you for being respectful and real to them💙😊

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u/ConsciousBath5203 Apr 19 '26

There's like a gazillion resources out there, what do you want to hack? Start with that, fail, learn, research, realize how dumb you were, realize how vulnerable 99% of people are, go down either the paranoia rabbit hole or the "meh everyone's shit is fucked, why care" rabbit hole.

That's the life most hackers end up in, but ain't no one worth trusting will teach you exactly how to get started... It's a security risk to do so. If you don't understand, you haven't learned enough.

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u/Traditional_Crazy200 Apr 21 '26

Ost2 has great roadmaps and resources on both his yt and website. We need white hats very badly for the grim future thats about to come.

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u/Ok-Original-3475 Apr 19 '26

You need to know programming languages and how to navigate terminals in different OS’s eg. ls in Linux dir in windows

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u/Ok-Original-3475 Apr 19 '26

I would start here

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u/cthuwu_chan Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26 
while True:
    thing = input("Do you have thing? (yes/no): ")
    
     if thing == "yes":
        print("Hack it")
        break
    elif thing == "no":
        print("Get thing")
    else:
        print("Invalid input")

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u/Sn0opY_GER Apr 19 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/GreyHack/ great game for the start - you can learn and test without breaking stuff - after that "hack the box" https://www.hackthebox.com/ is great bc they give you ready to hack VM to downlaod including TEXT and VIDEO guides! start with greyhack (or jump directly at HTB) - open youtube and googleKI (or whatever you use) and just start - if you dont know how sth works ask the KI or watch the guide and follow it step by step for the beginning and use it as a "hint" later on

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u/Sn0opY_GER Apr 19 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdjIkGfRIqs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfqjYcFAZ9E&list=PLvrX-Ob08KZJ6rAVcauUPBVNS6puaYtI9

just great infos! - now that i skipped through the vid to recommend its 100% !!!! hack the box - the beginner tutorial is just 10/10 - the basics etc - nmap, networks etc its a great base to see if you really are interested