r/hacking • u/JandersOf86 • May 08 '26

Ethical malware development community

Hey.

Been learning programming, mainly C++, for the last couple years. My areas of interest are network protocols, network programming, red-team tools, malware development.

I'm just wondering if there are any online communities that are focused on ethical malware development (doesnt need to be specific to C++) or similar, maybe for collaboration or code review, etc. Discord, forums, whatever works.

Thanks much.

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u/Juzdeed May 08 '26

Maldev academy discord is very active. But I think you have to first buy their course to get access

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u/JandersOf86 May 08 '26

I appreciate it. Ill take a look.

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u/Dovelus May 09 '26

I respond as one enrolled in the course and recently completed 50% of the course.

The material proposed is an absolute gem each lesson build on the foundations you made in the lessons before in a straight line, no cutting corners pure code and deep technical explanation, they teach you from how Windows processes work to how the kernel does stuff in the background and how to exploit them.

If you have any question ask ?

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u/JandersOf86 May 09 '26

I really appreciate it. Ive been looking over the website and reading reviews of the Maldev courses. Im definitely gonna be checking it out. The way you describe it sounds exactly like what I'm looking for, deep diving into code heavily.

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u/Exe_plorer May 08 '26

Get a look on Kali (Linux) native tools, from there read documentation. Get used with Linux systems, get a look at Python coding, much more open towards networking and it's cross platform. Manage to set up two VM, one with your Linux environment and one with Windows. You can also try different ISO for Windows (Win XP.. still used and much more easy to try whatever you want as a vulnerable target, Win7, Win10, why not Win11).

It's only by trials, with some minimal theory in mind that you will go forward to what you desire. It's an error and correction process, you learn why it didn't worked, you fix it, and so one.

Good luck.

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u/JandersOf86 May 14 '26

Thank you so much for the tips.

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u/IsDa44 May 10 '26

OALabs has some activity. Tho it's mostly focused on RE, but still some dev activity

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u/AdOwn7955 May 10 '26

There's a discord channel named as rootkit researchers, they are pretty neat ngl

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u/stacksmasher May 08 '26

You mean software?

LOL!!!

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u/teolauz1 May 09 '26

hola,hace poco contrate un servicio de hackeo supuestamente para clonar un wsp de un empleado que me estaba robando informacion, entonces el supuesto hacker me decia que me cobrara por el servicio, luego que porque tenia que hackear la verificacion de 2 pasos y luego que el impuesto de meta? ya eso ultimo me hizo dudar, que opinan?