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r/cybersecurity is a subreddit with 1.2M members. Its distinguishing qualities are that the community is massive in size, and has crazy activity.
This subreddit is for technical professionals to discuss cybersecurity news, research, threats, etc.
Popular Themes in r/cybersecurity
#1
Advice Requests
: "To whom should I report this compromised site?"
13 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "What AI tools are you using for defensive roles?"
5 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "So it begins. Me and the other 79 in my team are being canned and replaced by an AI that it turns out we've been training for the past 2 years. We work for a large US company (about 300k employees)."
5 posts
#4
Opportunities
: "Leave Technical Role for Consulting? (Big pay bump)"
2 posts
#5
News
: "State and local governments, along with cybersecurity experts, are unhappy with a new executive order from the Trump administration. The order gives them more responsibility for handling cyberattacks, but many believe they aren't ready for the task."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/cybersecurity
#1
Cybersecurity
: "A Cybersecurity company - moving all the infra to google"
91 posts
#2
Security
: "Is the U.S. Cyber Security job market really that bad right now?"
65 posts
#3
Malware
: "FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push Malware"
19 posts
#4
Phishing
: "Microsoft’s new AI agents take on Phishing, patching, alert fatigue"
11 posts
#5
Breach
: "Oracle keeps denying, more analyses emerge proving there was a Breach"
10 posts
#6
Ai
: "So it begins. Me and the other 79 in my team are being canned and replaced by an Ai that it turns out we've been trAining for the past 2 years. We work for a large US company (about 300k employees)."
9 posts
#7
Interview
: "Disheartened after SOC Interview"
8 posts
#8
Vulnerability
: "Attention: Critical Next.js Vulnerability CVE-2025-29927"
8 posts
#9
Training
: "Has anyone in here become a security engineer by means of being an IAM administrator/ engineer first? If so, how did you go about it?"
7 posts
#10
Vulnerabilities
: "[TOOL] CVE-Dash: Open Source Terminal-Based Vulnerability Research Tool"
7 posts
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