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HackerDNA's cybersecurity labs are hands-on hacking environments that run on real, isolated virtual machines - not simulations. Each lab drops you into a deliberately vulnerable target where you practise web exploitation, privilege escalation, password cracking, network attacks and more, then capture a flag to prove you solved it.

Whether you are preparing for the OSCP, building a career in penetration testing, or learning ethical hacking from scratch, the labs are graded from Very Easy to Hard so you can start where you are and level up. Create a free account to launch your first machine, track your progress and climb the global leaderboard.

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Infiltrator Forge a login token, slip inside, and work your way to root.

Web & API Security JWT ManipulationSSH ExploitationLog Injection
+200 XP 32% 780 Terminal Start LabStart
Easy

Include me Bend a page's file loader into reading files it should not.

Web & API Security PHPLFI
+100 XP 70% 2,093 Terminal Start LabStart
Easy Quick win

Anonymous Log into a file server as a guest and grab what you find.

Network & Infrastructure FTP
+100 XP 80% 1,668 Terminal Start LabStart
Easy

Spoof! Fake your IP in a header and walk past the access check.

Network & Infrastructure IP SPOOFING
+100 XP 78% 1,388 Terminal Start LabStart
Easy

Cronpocalypse Hijack a job that runs on a timer and climb to root.

Privilege Escalation & Post-Exploitation SSH
+200 XP 51% 1,237 Terminal Start LabStart
Easy

Password Cracking - Custom Wordlist Attack Build a wordlist from a target's own pages and crack their file.

Cryptography Password CrackingCustom WordlistWordlist Generation
+200 XP 38% 328 Terminal Start LabStart
Easy

Scheduled Sabotage Log in over SSH, find the job the system runs as root, and hijack it.

Network & Infrastructure LinuxSSHFile Enumeration
+200 XP 65% 144 Terminal Start LabStart
Easy Quick win

Packet Pursuit Open a traffic capture and follow the packets to the secret.

Digital Forensics & IR Network AnalysisPacket CaptureWireshark
+100 XP 88% 42 Start LabStart
Easy

Anonymous 2 Trip the hidden backdoor in an FTP server and get a shell.

Network & Infrastructure FTP ExploitationBackdoor DetectionNetwork Services
+100 XP 57% 527 Terminal Start LabStart
Easy Boss

FiPloit Sneak a web shell past the upload filter and run it.

Digital Forensics & IR Local File InclusionFile Upload BypassPHP Security
+200 XP 30% 464 Terminal Start LabStart
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