Start with one track.
Finish as a
pentester.
MasaudSec Academy is an online institute for offensive security. Live instructor-led classes, hands-on labs on real targets, and 1-on-1 mentorship — no theory dumps, no slide decks. You break things first, then learn to write it up properly.
Live cohorts / Custom session schedule / Recordings included / OSCP-aligned
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What you can study here.
Every course runs as live instructor-led classes with lab work between sessions, and every enrolment includes 1-on-1 time with the instructor. Take a single track, or stack them into a full pentester path.
Ethical Hacking Fundamentals
Before tools, methodology. This track teaches you the order a professional engagement actually runs in, from pre-engagement paperwork to the report that gets paid for.
Red Team Operations
Where pentesting stops and adversary emulation starts. Threat models, C2, payload development and staying resident without tripping the defence.
OS Exploitation (Linux & Windows Privilege Escalation)
The half of the engagement that decides whether you actually got in. Linux and Windows internals, enumeration methodology first, then every escalation route that still lands — up to root / SYSTEM.
Bug Bounty 101
The flagship track. Set up the lab, learn the bug classes, then work real programs and write reports a triager will accept.
OSCP Preparation
A structured, time-boxed run at PEN-200. Exam-style targets, the 24-hour clock, and the report that carries half the marks.
Built like an apprenticeship, not a video library.
Recorded courses teach you what a vulnerability is. Sitting next to a practitioner teaches you how to find one. This is the second thing.
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100% lab-based
Every concept is introduced on a live target. If it can't be demonstrated in a lab, it doesn't make it into the syllabus.
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1-on-1 mentorship included
Individual sessions are part of the fee, not an upsell. Your blockers get unblocked by a person, not a forum thread.
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Continuously updated
Techniques that stopped working get removed. Material tracks current tooling, current bug classes and current exam formats.
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Taught by a practitioner
Classes are delivered by someone who runs real assessments — so you learn scoping, ethics and reporting alongside exploitation.
Masaud Ahmed
Founder & Lead Instructor
Masaud Ahmed Founder & Lead Instructor
Penetration tester and cybersecurity educator based in Tank, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Over 10,000 students across 22+ countries have taken his training on web application security, network exploitation, bug bounty methodology and OSINT.
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One complete roadmap from zero to your first real exploitation — taught free by MasaudSec.
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Complete Ethical Hacking Course 2026
12 hours. 19 lectures. One complete roadmap from zero to your first real exploitation, taught free by MasaudSec.
- 12 Hours of guided, hands-on practice
- 19 Lectures covering the full attacker chain
- 0 Cost — 100% free, no payment details
The five phases you'll practise every week.
The same VAPT lifecycle we use on paid engagements is the spine of the curriculum. You run it end to end, repeatedly, until it becomes reflex.
Reconnaissance
Map the target's attack surface — passively first, then actively.
Scanning
Enumerate ports, services and versions. Separate noise from signal.
Exploitation
Turn a finding into access, with impact you can actually prove.
Post-exploitation
Escalate, pivot and understand blast radius across the estate.
Reporting
Clean up, document the chain and deliver fixes a team can action.
Want the complete module-by-module breakdown before you commit?
Full course outlinesSecurity testing services.
Alongside teaching, the academy takes on assessment work. Scoped engagements, manual testing over scanner output, and a report your developers can act on without a translator.
Web Application Penetration Testing
Manual, authenticated testing of your web app and APIs against OWASP Top 10 and business-logic abuse.
- Injection, XSS, CSRF, SSRF
- Auth, session & access control
- PoC for every finding
Network & Infrastructure Assessment
External and internal testing of your perimeter, servers and internal segments, with exploitation proven end to end.
- External & internal perimeter
- Privesc & pivoting
- Segmentation validation
Vulnerability Assessment & VAPT
Identification, risk-ranking and remediation planning across your estate — contextualised to your environment, not a raw scanner dump.
- Risk-ranked findings register
- Executive + technical report
- Free retest of fixed issues
Engagements start with a free scoping call — no NDA theatre, just what's in scope and what it costs.
Request a scoping callWhat people say after the labs.
The most practical cybersecurity course I've taken. The hands-on labs were immediately useful in my job as a pentester.
Felix
Penetration Tester
Masaud's teaching style is exceptional. Complex topics get broken down into concepts you can actually apply, with real examples.
Raskin
Security Analyst
Content is kept current with the latest techniques. I applied what I learned directly to live work within weeks.
Laiba
Bug Bounty Hunter
Start with one track. Finish as a pentester.
Message us with where you are right now — complete beginner, self-taught, or preparing for OSCP — and we'll tell you exactly which program to start with.