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Gonçalo Ribeiro 6d ago

As an old fart in #xdev, I get asked often, mostly by young coworkers, how to get into binary exploitation in 2025. I looked around, and here’s my recommendation:

https://pwn.college

#pwncollege is a huge collection of free #lectures and practical #challenges maintained by a team of #hackers at the Arizona State University. Check it out!

Marco Ivaldi 5d ago

As a side note, since somebody asked… 20 years ago I would’ve (and I have in multiple occasions) recommended the legendary #abo series by gera https://web.archive.org/web/20150418052653/http://community.coresecurity.com/~gera/InsecureProgramming/

#xdev #pwncollege #lectures #challenges #hackers

gera's InsecureProgramming page

@raptor another one i've recommended over the years is microcorruption.com

Marco Ivaldi 5d ago

@regnil nice! Thanks

floyd aka floyd_ch 5d ago

@raptor @regnil also nightmare https://guyinatuxedo.github.io/

Nightmare - Nightmare

Nightmare: an intro to binary exploitation / reverse engineering course based around CTF challenges.

Marco Ivaldi 5d ago

@floyd @regnil yes! I’ve been meaning to check it out next

floyd aka floyd_ch 5d ago

@raptor @regnil btw. if somebody prefers a though, paid, trainer-lead course during a few days instead of free courses online, I can really recommend corelan.be bootcamp (everything on Windows except heap), this is brilliant. Also the advanced corelan course (Windows heap stuff, though some weird people were expecting to learn more than a few mem allocators/IE versions on 2 OS versions, but I liked the practical iterative approach on how to approach a target)

Marco Ivaldi 5d ago

@floyd @regnil I only completed their free course many years ago and it really helped me to prepare for OSCE although I’m not really a Windows guy 👍

Mystery Chronic-migraine Ken

@raptor this is a great resource, thank you!

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Marco Ivaldi 5d ago

@LevelUp glad you find it useful! 🙏

Cindʎ Xiao 🍉5d ago

@raptor Can second this! It was really useful for me learning reverse engineering as well!!

Marco Ivaldi 5d ago

@cxiao the Yan85 challenges are fun!

Cindʎ Xiao 🍉5d ago

@raptor omg fond flashbacks of yan85 😭😭😭 I think they added even harder yan85 challenges after I did the course....I gotta go back and have more Fun 😆

Marco Ivaldi 5d ago

@cxiao “fun” hehe

Marco Ivaldi 5d ago

@cxiao I kinda bruteforced my way through Yan85 challenges, so far I’ve stubbornly refused to learn the architecture 😅

Cindʎ Xiao 🍉5d ago

@raptor Honestly, looking at my old notes for Yan85, same

Marco Ivaldi 5d ago

@cxiao the blessed path of least resistance… reversers are like water💧

@raptor that is a pretty good one no doubt #pinky the wildcat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ubQxtEukvw

Pinky The Cat.mp4

YouTube

joel cretan 5d ago

@raptor Grandma can still get away with that on a lot of embedded devices, just sayin 😆

Marco Ivaldi 5d ago

@kaced can confirm 👵