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HackTricks is an educational wiki about cybersecurity led by Carlos Polop, with hundreds of collaborators. It’s a huge collection of hacking tricks updated by the community. If you find something missing or outdated, send a Pull Request to the HackTricks GitHub. HackTricks is also a wiki where researchers share their latest findings, making it a great place to stay current with modern attack techniques.
Credits for techniques from other researchers belong to the original authors. Kudos to everyone who shares knowledge to improve internet security.

Who is Carlos “carlospolop” Polop-Fuster?

PEASS-ng

Creator and maintainer of PEASS-ng (winPEAS / linPEAS / macOS-peas) — the go-to suite for privilege escalation enumeration on every major platform.

Red Team & Training

Red-team consultant and trainer focused on cloud, identity, and endpoint privilege escalation, sharing reproducible attacker playbooks.

Current Focus (2025–2026)

1

PEASS-ng Releases

Frequent releases add checks for modern OS hardening (updated sudo/ADCS/Win11 telemetry bypasses) and richer JSON/HTML outputs. Always use the latest binaries.
2

HackTricks Training

Expanding HackTricks Training with hands-on cloud labs covering AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as AI-assisted offensive workflows.
3

Instructor-Led Partnerships

Partnering with training platforms on instructor-led cloud-security courses — including a collaboration with Cyber Helmets for AWS, Azure, and GCP content.

How to Follow and Contribute

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