r/netsec is a subreddit with 571k members. The most common kinds of discussions are news and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses looking for, security, vulnerabilities, network, and aws.
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Popular Themes in r/netsec
#1
News
: "No Shark is Safe: Millions of Shark Vacuums are Vulnerable to RCE"
17 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "From wallet drains to a 12-year-old CryptoJS entropy bug: the Ill Bloom investigation"
3 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "[Scambio di Backlink] Hackita.it – oltre 500 articoli sulla sicurezza offensiva, cerca partnership di link con blog tech or similar"
2 posts
#4
Ideas
: "Building Sift: a faster, cross-platform replacement for Snaffler"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/netsec
#1
Looking For
11 posts
#2
Security
10 posts
#3
Vulnerabilities
4 posts
#4
Network
3 posts
#5
Aws
3 posts
#6
Annoying
2 posts
#7
Hate
2 posts
#8
Web Application
2 posts
#9
Hacking
2 posts
#10
Breaches
2 posts
Flair Used in r/netsec
#1
Contains AI
: "Escaping Claude Cowork’s local VM sandbox via CVE-2026-46331"
14 posts
#2
Pending Moderation
: "☢️ Philippine Nuclear Agency and Naval Contractor Targeted by Suspected Chinese-Speaking Operator"
6 posts
#3
Rejected (Bad Source)
: "Kimi Desktop Ships With an Updater That Can Install Unverified Code"
4 posts
#4
Pending moderation (Tool post)
: "GitHub - IndAlok/rzweb: A complete browser-based reverse engineering platform built on Rizin, running entirely client-side via WebAssembly."
2 posts
#5
Rejected (Tool Post)
: "Aegis Latent Core: trust boundaries for MMR evidence in an LLM gateway"
2 posts
#6
Discussion
: "GitHub issues $100,000 bounty for critical RCE vulnerability"
1 post
#7
Rejected (Not Technical Enough)
: "frontier class vulnerabilities: it gets worse before it (maybe) gets better"
1 post
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Yearly
+38k members(7.1%)
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Last updated: September 2, 2026