Exploit Development, Malware, & Defensive Strategies

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course provides an advanced exploration of exploit development, malware creation, and defensive strategies in ethical hacking. By delving into object-oriented programming, building backdoors, creating malicious payloads, and analyzing network traffic, learners will gain hands-on experience in crafting cybersecurity tools and deploying them…