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Best cybersecurity books from 2022
5 cybersecurity books published in 2022, ranked by rating. Each entry is an opinionated review with who the book is for.
01 · 2022
Tracers in the Dark
The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
Andy Greenberg's investigative narrative of how Bitcoin's allegedly-anonymous public ledger became, in the hands of researchers and federal investigators, the most powerful OSINT tool of the last decade.
Beginner5/5Andy Greenberg02 · 2022
Gray Hat Hacking
The Ethical Hacker's Handbook
A multi-author breadth-first reference covering the modern offensive landscape: web, binary, hardware, IoT, mobile, cloud, and adversarial ML — the closest thing in print to a single-volume snapshot of where offensive security is.
Advanced4/5Allen Harper, Ryan Linn, Stephen Sims, Michael Baucom, Daniel Fernandez, Huascar Tejeda, Moses Frost03 · 2022
Hacking APIs
Breaking Web Application Programming Interfaces
Corey Ball's structured approach to attacking REST and GraphQL APIs: enumeration, auth flaws, business logic, mass assignment, and the testing harness around them.
Intermediate4/5Corey J. Ball04 · 2022
Practical Social Engineering
A Primer for the Ethical Hacker
Joe Gray's working manual for the social-engineering side of red team and threat intel: OSINT-driven recon, pretexting, phishing infrastructure, and the legal and ethical boundaries that separate professional work from criminal activity.
Intermediate4/5Joe Gray05 · 2022
The Art of Mac Malware, Volume 1
The Guide to Analyzing Malicious Software
Patrick Wardle's deep dive on macOS malware analysis: persistence patterns, injection techniques, anti-analysis tricks, and the macOS-specific tooling needed to triage real samples.
Advanced4/5Patrick Wardle