Learn Social Engineering From Scratch (Udemy.com)

Learn how to hack accounts & personal devices (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux & Android) & how to secure yourself from hackers

Created by: Zaid Sabih

Produced in 2021

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What you will learn

  • Hack updated & patched systems (Windows, Linux, OS X and Android).
  • Generate undetectable backdoors for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux & Android.
  • Generate malware to steal all passwords from Windows & Linux.
  • Embed malware in Microsoft Office documents.
  • Backdoor Android applications.
  • Make evil files (backdoors / keyloggers) look and function like normal files (image, pdf or any other file type).
  • Manually modify malware to bypass anti-virus programs.
  • Advanced malware delivery techniques (through fake pages, fake emails, indirect notifications....etc)
  • Advanced post exploitation.
  • Discover websites, companies, people, emails and social networking accounts associated with a person or a company.
  • Install hacking lab & needed software (on Windows, OS X and Linux)
  • Install Kali Linux - a penetration testing operating system
  • Install windows & vulnerable operating systems as virtual

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Overall Score : 94 / 100

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Course Description

Note: The contents of this course are not covered in any of my other courses except for some basics. Although social engineering is covered in one of my other courses, that course only covers the basics where this course dives much deeper in this topic covering more techniques, more operating systems, advanced exploitation, advanced post exploitation, bypassing security and more!
Welcome to this comprehensive course on Social Engineering!
In this course, you will start as abeginnerwith no previous knowledge inhacking, and by the end of it you'll be at a high level in social engineering being able hack into all major operating systems(windows, OS X, Linux and Android) like black-hat hackers and secure yourself from hackers.
This course is focused on thepractical side of social engineering without neglecting the theory,first you'll learn how to install the needed software (on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X), then the course is divided into a number of sections to represent the steps you'd take to successfully hack a target using social engineering.
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Information Gathering-First before doing anything you need to know your target, in this section you'll learn how to gather information about your target whether it is a company, website or just a person.
You will learn how to discover anything that is associatedwith your target such aswebsites, links, companies, users, emails, phone numbers, friends, social networks accounts ...
etc, you will also learn how to graph all of this information and use it to build a smart attack strategy.
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Generating Malware - Now that you gathered enough information about your target and came up with an attack strategy, the next step is create custom malware that is attractive to the target. In this section you will learn how to generate evil files (files that execute tasksyou want on the target computer), this includes backdoors, keyloggers, credential harvesterand more, these files will work on all operating systems (Windows, OS X, Linux and Android), you'll alsolearn how toenhancethese files to make them bypass all anti-virus programs, and make them look and function just like any other file such as an image or a pdf, or even embed them in legitimate Microsoft Office documents.
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Delivery Methods - Now that you have your custom-made trojan ready, in this section you will learn a number of social engineering techniques to deliver it to the target, you will learn how to create fake websites that look identical to websites the target trusts, send emails that appear like they're coming from people the target trusts anduse fake login pages and fake updatesto hack into the target, you'll also learn advanced social engineering techniques to lure the target into visiting an evil URL andhack into their systemwithout even interacting with them.
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Post Exploitation -In this section you will learn how to interact with the systems you compromised whether they use Windows, Linux, OS X or even Android. Youlllearnhow to access the file system (read/write/upload/execute),maintain your access, escalateyour privileges,spyon the target,use the target computer as a pivot to hack other computers and more! If your target uses Android then you'll also learn how to read their messages, find their location, access their other accounts (such as Whatsapp, Facebook ...
etc) and more!
Finally at the end of the course you will learn how to protect yourself and your systems from these attacks.
All the attacks in this course arepractical attacksthatwork against real computers, ineach technique you will understand the theory behind it andhow it works, then you'll learn how to use that technique in a real life scenario, so by the end of the course you'll be able to modify these techniques or combine themto come up with more powerful attacks and adopt them to different scenarios and different operating systems.
With this course you'll get 24/7 support, so if you have any questions you can post them in the Q&A section and we'll respond to you within 15 hours.
Notes: This course is created for educational purposes only andall the attacks are launched in my own lab or against devices that I have permission to test.
This course is totally a product of Zaid Sabih & zSecurity, no otherorganizationis associated with it or a certification exam. Although, you will receive a Course Completion Certification from Udemy, apart from that NO OTHER ORGANIZATION IS INVOLVED.
Who this course is for:
People who want to learn ethical hacking / social engineeringPeople who want to learn how hackers hack into secure systems that do not have any vulnerabilitiesAnybody who wants to learn how to secure their systems from social engineering attacks

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Instructor Details

Zaid Sabih

My name is Zaid Al-Quraishi, I am an ethical hacker, a computer scientist, and the founder and CEO of zSecurity. I just love hacking and breaking the rules, but dont get me wrong as I said I am an ethical hacker.
I have tremendous experience in ethical hacking, I started making video tutorials back in 2009 in an ethical hacking community (iSecuri1ty), I also worked as a pentester for the same company. In 2013 I started teaching my first course live and online, this course received amazing feedback which motivated me to publish it on Udemy.
This course became the most popular and the top paid course in Udemy for almost a year, this motivated me to make more courses, now I have a number of ethical hacking courses, each focusing on a specific field, dominating the ethical hacking topic on Udemy.
Now I have more than 350,000 students on Udemy and other teaching platforms such as StackSocial, StackSkills and zSecurity.

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Reviews

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By Houssam Haddad on 12/27/2020

amazing

By Cs8 on 12/20/2020

So So

By Gladwin on 12/20/2020

OUTDATED

By Taisir Alzubaidi on 12/20/2020

This course is absolutely horrible. The most important part of the course which is information gathering got changed completely and became useless.

By Haroon Ahmed on 12/6/2020

Amazing Awesome Astounding

By Arijit Naha on 11/21/2020

Very good and informative.

By Trng Giang on 11/21/2020

Frankly this course is extremely bad (as of 9/2020) for the following reasons:
- Most of the lessons in this course are recorded in 2016/2017 and not updated until the present time (But in external advertising, it says updated till 08/2020)
-> Now it's 2020. Tools, antivirus, systems ... have also updated, leading to changes in everything
-> Every time I come to a new lessons, I always get an error and have to wait for the support person, but the support person doesn't support until the students fix all the errors completely
-> This course is too bad if you bought it in 2020, not worth the money
-> What a blatant lie. Because I haven't seen much videos recorded in 2020 (except setup environments =)) )

By Alix Lambert on 11/18/2020

need to be updated

By Yash Gaikwad on 11/17/2020

Nice course

By Oinam Puremba Khuman on 11/16/2020

Amazing Course

By Stefano Conti on 11/13/2020

Very nice training, good for beginners - mid level expertise. I've particularly appreciated the practical approach with a lot of examples and demo

By Ernest Jonah on 11/8/2020

it's quite entertaining and straight forward.