r/netsec is a subreddit with 573k members. The most common kinds of discussions are news and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses looking for, security, network, web application, and certificate.
/r/netsec is a community-curated aggregator of technical information security content. Our mission is to extract signal from the noise — to provide value to security practitioners, students, researchers, and hackers everywhere.
Popular Themes in r/netsec
#1
News
: "WeWorm - The first zero-click worm to spread through WeChat calls across iOS and Android."
72 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "The ultimate guide to hacking APIs in 2026 has been updated"
3 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "When terrible disclosure from the vendor results in zero days plus a fun dive in to bypassing full disk encryption"
1 post
#4
Advice Requests
: "I made a full JWT hacking tutorial + testing suite"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/netsec
#1
Looking For
11 posts
#2
Security
: "Visual Studio Code Vulnerability that Bypasses Workspace Trust"
5 posts
#3
Network
3 posts
#4
Web Application
2 posts
#5
Certificate
: "Locating Flutter's TLS Certificate verifier in a stripped libflutter.so without byte signatures"
2 posts
#6
Vulnerability
: "Visual Studio Code Vulnerability that Bypasses Workspace Trust"
2 posts
#7
Implant
: "Implant Encryption via the Dump Encoding Library"
2 posts
#8
Cyber
1 post
#9
Exploitation
: "Commix now does out-of-band (OAST) detection and Exploitation."
1 post
Flair Used in r/netsec
#1
Contains AI
: "CVE-2026-77179: Docker's hypervisor for Mac compromised (Docker Desktop, Docker Sandboxes)"
21 posts
#2
Rejected (Tool Post)
: "Tg-attest: tamper-evident decision records for AI systems, hash-chained and anchored to RFC 3161 timestamps (Apache-2.0)"
7 posts
#3
Pending Moderation
: "☢️ Philippine Nuclear Agency and Naval Contractor Targeted by Suspected Chinese-Speaking Operator"
4 posts
#4
Rejected (Not Technical Enough)
: "Serbia Allegedly Hits 14 Activists With Pegasus Spyware"
1 post
#5
Rejected (Bad Source)
: "Kimi Desktop Ships With an Updater That Can Install Unverified Code"
1 post
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Yearly
+38k members(7.1%)
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Last updated: September 23, 2026