Practical Offensive Security With Python

Welcome to this course where you’ll learn how to build a decentralized malware bot with Python that targets Windows operating systems. Python is de–facto language used by ethical hackers and learning it for you professional career can boost your chances of employment as a cyber security professional.

This course is an entry point for offensive penetration testers and won’t dive deep into any of the topics, but covers a lot of basics. This intentional lack of depth makes novice penetration testers explore this course as an inspiration, a way of thought. Contents of this course are needed for completing security certifications and can be specially of importance if you want to start learning about malware analysis and reverse engineering. This is a technical course but the emphasis is on problem solving.

This course can also be useful for system administrators and those of you who prefer a defensive approach in penetration testing, as you can see how systems can get infected, how and where malware can hide itself, what parts of Windows are affected by the infection, how important it is to patch and update the operating system, how simple user interaction may trigger a malware infection, and how not blacklisting unnecessary local and web services can lead to potentially catastrophic consequences for your organization.