A well-known Russian-language cybersecurity library has released a substantial batch of new translations of leading English books on ethical hacking, bug bounty hunting, reverse engineering, malware analysis, and privacy.
The project, which continues the long-running series “Materials on Hacking in Russian,” focuses on translating high-quality resources and hosting them on the Hackbooks site. The latest update adds more than a dozen titles that span web application security, network discovery, protocol exploitation, binary analysis, and defensive techniques.
Web Application Security and Bug Hunting
Web Hacking 101: How to Make Money Hacking Ethically presents more than thirty real-world vulnerability disclosures, covering HTML injection, XSS, CSRF, open redirects, remote code execution, and business logic flaws, each accompanied by attack classification, original reports, bounty amounts, and key takeaways.
Real-World Bug Hunting: A Field Guide to Web Hacking by Peter Yaworski walks readers through rewarded vulnerability reports, dedicating chapters to XSS, CSRF, SSRF, SQL injection, XXE, subdomain takeover, IDOR, OAuth issues, race conditions, and logic errors while also explaining how to select bug bounty programs and write effective reports.
Network Security and Protocol Analysis
The official Nmap Network Scanning guide covers host and service detection, firewall and IDS evasion, performance tuning, and automation via the Nmap Scripting Engine, with practical scenarios for network inventory, penetration testing, rogue access point discovery, and worm response.
Attacking Network Protocols: A Hacker’s Guide to Capture, Analysis, and Exploitation teaches traffic capture, modification, and replay, followed by static and dynamic analysis, protocol reverse engineering, custom proxy and dissector development, fuzzing, debugging, memory corruption exploitation, authentication bypass, and denial-of-service techniques.
Reverse Engineering and Binary Analysis
Reverse Engineering for Beginners is a large free textbook that teaches assembly reading and logic reconstruction, illustrating how C and C++ constructs appear after compilation, covering function calls, stack, memory, optimizations, system APIs, multiple architectures, and operating systems.
How to Approach Binary File Format Analysis explains encodings, endianness, numbers, flags, structures, alignment, signatures, and headers, offering a practical workflow using histograms, string searches, section extraction, and pattern matching for digital forensics, malware analysis, data recovery, and converter development.
Privacy, Surveillance, and Cryptography
Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest explores creating ambiguous or misleading data to resist mass surveillance, drawing examples from WWII chaff, social media bots, and search query masking tools while discussing technical and ethical limits.
Gigabytes of Power by Kiwi Bird connects societal and technological history with growing state and corporate control, covering mass surveillance, biometrics, cryptography, GSM and satellite TV hacking, propaganda, and counter-terrorism restrictions.
Crypto Wars: The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age traces fifty years of conflict between privacy advocates and governments, examining debates around DES, academic freedom, crypto export controls, key escrow, and post-Snowden developments.
Windows Security and Malware Analysis
Windows Security Internals: A Deep Dive into Windows Authentication, Authorization, and Auditing by James Forshaw details kernel and user-mode security mechanisms including access tokens, security descriptors, rights checking, auditing, SAM, Active Directory, NTLM, and Kerberos, with PowerShell examples for hands-on exploration.
Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software guides readers through the full malware investigation lifecycle—from initial file inspection to logic reconstruction—using static and dynamic analysis, disassemblers, debuggers, memory forensics, network behavior, packers, and shellcode, reinforced by laboratory exercises.
Evasive Malware: A Field Guide to Detecting, Analyzing, and Defeating Advanced Threats focuses on malware that detects virtual machines, sandboxes, and analysis tools, covering anti-disassembly and anti-debugging methods, process injection, rootkits, fileless techniques, packers, obfuscation, and laboratory setup recommendations.
Fuzzing and Automated Testing
The Fuzzing Book is an interactive textbook demonstrating random, mutational, grey-box, grammar-based, search-based, and symbolic fuzzing, complete with executable Python examples and Jupyter notebooks that readers can run while studying.
Readers are encouraged to explore the full collection on Hackbooks and share the resources with the community. The translations significantly lower the barrier for Russian-speaking professionals and students seeking authoritative material on information security, reverse engineering, and antivirus research.
