The Hacker Playbook 2: Practical Guide To Penetration

by Peter Kim

The second installment of The Hacker Playbook series updates and expands the penetration testing methodology with new techniques, tools, and attack vectors. Peter Kim covers the evolution of defensive security and how offensive techniques have adapted, introducing advanced topics like pivoting through networks, bypassing antivirus and endpoint detection, attacking Active Directory environments, and using PowerShell for post-exploitation. The book adds new plays for web application attacks, social engineering campaigns, and physical security assessments. It maintains the practical, hands-on approach of the first book while pushing into more sophisticated territory, making it suitable for practitioners who have mastered the basics and want to level up their red team capabilities.