Social engineering remains one of the most powerful forms of hacking because it targets the weakest link in any system — the human factor. Learn Social Engineering from Scratch: Ethical Hacking with Real-World Attacks is designed to teach you how attackers exploit trust, communication, and digital tools to gain access to systems, while simultaneously showing you how to defend against such attacks. This practical course is taught step by step with real-world simulations, from building a penetration testing lab to executing advanced exploits on Windows, macOS, Linux, and even Android devices.

You will begin by setting up your ethical hacking lab using Kali Linux and mastering the Linux basics required for security testing. The course then moves into advanced information gathering techniques, where you will learn how to collect intelligence on companies, websites, and individuals to craft targeted attack strategies. From there, you will create undetectable malware, keyloggers, trojans, and backdoors while understanding the methods attackers use to bypass antivirus protections and deliver malicious payloads through email spoofing, fake login pages, and browser exploitation frameworks like BeEF.

The course also dives deep into post-exploitation, where you will practice maintaining persistent access, capturing sensitive data, and pivoting across networks — all within a controlled ethical hacking environment. Finally, you will learn essential defense strategies, including how to detect phishing attempts, identify trojans, and safeguard systems against the very attacks you will have mastered.

By the end of this course, you will not only understand social engineering and ethical hacking but also have the skills to ethically test security systems, build stronger defenses, and pursue a career in cybersecurity with confidence.