Offensive Security Courses and Certifications

Edureka

Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Scanning

Learn structured penetration testing: run reconnaissance, host discovery and port scanning with Nmap, assess web exposure with Nikto and OWASP checks, then build remediation and governance workflows.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

An Introduction to Ethical Hacking with Kali Linux

Learn ethical hacking with Kali Linux: gather information with DNS tools and Nmap, scan for vulnerabilities using Nikto, and exploit web apps with Burp Suite, Sqlmap and Metasploit.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Intermediate Ethical Hacking Hands-on Training

Practice intermediate hacking: Nmap reconnaissance, reverse shells and privilege escalation, PowerShell Empire post-exploitation, wireless deauth attacks, Wireshark capture, and SQL injection to shell.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Bug Bounty from Scratch

Learn to find and report security flaws in bug bounty programs: choose programs, apply OWASP testing methodologies, use ExploitDB and enumeration, and write vulnerability reports.

• Coursera
• 13 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Web Hacker's Toolbox - Tools Used by Successful Hackers

Use Sqlmap, Google Hacking, Burp Suite Intruder and OWASP ZAP to find SQL injections, fuzz for path traversal, bypass WAFs and exploit race conditions.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

The Complete Pentesting and Privilege Escalation Course

Solve Bandit, Wakanda, Mr. Robot and FristiLeaks CTFs, exploit web services, then escalate privileges on Linux and Windows via SUID, kernel exploits and exploit suggesters.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Social Engineering Expert

Learn how social engineers attack: phishing, baiting, tailgating and pretexting, information gathering with Maltego and Metagoofil, plus elicitation, influence and micro expressions.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Web Hacking Expert - Full-Stack Exploitation Mastery

Exploit modern web apps: bypass Content Security Policy, hijack tokens through PDFs and images, attack AngularJS template injection, and abuse race conditions and subdomain takeovers.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Practical Cyber Hacking Skills for Beginners

Learn ethical hacking hands-on: install Kali Linux in VirtualBox, scan with NMAP, dissect phishing, crack password hashes, test web flaws, and gather intelligence with Maltego.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Practical Pentesting

Run a penetration test end to end: set scope with NDAs and statements of work, then recon, scan, exploit, and report using Nmap, Nessus, and BurpSuite.

• Coursera
• 9 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Defending Against AI-Driven Phishing and Social Engineering

Recognize and simulate AI-generated phishing campaigns with SniperPhish and PentestGPT, then detect network anomalies using isolation forests and clustering to analyze traffic.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Web Application Security Testing with Google Hacking

Use Google search operators to uncover directory listings, SQL syntax errors, exposed backup files and sensitive URLs, then block indexing with robots.txt and meta tags.

• Coursera
• 3 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Learn Man in the Middle Attacks from Scratch

Set up a Kali Linux lab and run man-in-the-middle attacks: MAC spoofing, ARP poisoning, credential capture, fake updates and backdoors, then detect and block them.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Hands-on Hacking

Practice full attack chains on vulnerable VMs like GoldenEye, Bob, and WinterMute: enumerate services, proxy HTTPS with Burp Suite, craft buffer overflow exploits, and escalate privileges.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Packt

Ethical Password Cracking

Crack passwords with John the Ripper and Hashcat: collect and break Windows, macOS, Linux, WPA/WPA2, CMS, vault and crypto wallet hashes, then harden defenses.

• Coursera
• 11 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course