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Best cybersecurity books from 2022
9 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
Cyberattaques
Les dessous d'une menace mondiale
A clear, journalistic decoding of the cyberattack ecosystem — ransomware gangs, state actors, and the economics and geopolitics behind the headlines — by one of France's best-known cyber experts.
Beginner4/5Gérôme Billois, Nicolas Cougot03 · 2022
Cybersécurité
Analyser les risques, mettre en œuvre les solutions
Solange Ghernaouti's broad academic survey of cybersecurity — risk analysis, governance, technical and legal dimensions — the standard French university reference, now in its 7th edition.
Intermediate4/5Solange Ghernaouti04 · 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 Frost05 · 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. Ball06 · 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 Gray07 · 2022
Sécurité informatique - Ethical Hacking
Apprendre l'attaque pour mieux se défendre
The French-language reference for offensive security: a thick, lab-heavy tour of the attacker's toolkit, maintained across editions by the ACISSI collective under the motto “learn the attack to better defend.”
Intermediate4/5ACISSI08 · 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 Wardle09 · 2022
The Ransomware Hunting Team
A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime
Investigative journalism on the volunteers who quietly cracked ransomware to free victims for free, while the FBI mostly watched. A people-first look at the early ransomware economy.
Beginner4/5Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden