Be Part Of The HTB Community
Join 5 million cybersecurity students, engineers, and researchers swapping insights, analyzing threats, and mastering offensive, defensive, and purple team skills!
Connect with the HTB Community

Your go-to space for deep-dive discussions. Join over 100,000 community members on Reddit and troubleshoot tricky machine mechanics or get honest tips from peers who have passed HTB exams.

Meetups
Connect with local security talent in person or virtually. Held in 82 countries, HTB Meetups provide free, temporary access to Dedicated Labs for hands-on group hacking and networking.

Discord
Join over 220,000 cybersecurity enthusiasts in real time. Discuss active labs, swap write-ups, share job openings, and troubleshoot challenges

CubeTalks
Drop into our Discord (almost) every Friday to hang out with fellow hackers and the HTB team! Get the inside scoop on new content, ask about upcoming certs, or fire away with any burning questions you've got.
Community Principles
Let’s make HTB the best community to be part of! Here's our manifesto:
Be respectful, treat everyone else the way you would wish to be treated.
Be kind; bad and offensive language is not acceptable.
Be positive and non-toxic, foster an environment you want to be part of.
Be fair and treat everyone equitably. We’re all in this together, be kind to each other!
Abide by our ToS at all times, moderators and ban hammers are lurking!
Be here because you want to! You are always free to enter or leave our community.
HTB Community by the Numbers
Hack The Box always has - right from day 1 back in 2017 - and always will be all about its users. The HTB community is what helped us grow since our inception and achieve amazing things throughout the years.
5m
Platform Members
1m
Social Followers
220k
Discord Members
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Massively Growing
Founded in 2017 by a team of three, HTB has expanded into a global network welcoming new individual researchers, academic institutions, enterprise teams, and government agencies daily.
02
Strongly Diverse
The community welcomes all technical backgrounds, from cybersecurity beginners and university students to penetration testers, red/blue teamers, sysadmins, developers, and security leaders.
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Shared Objectives
Everyone is here for the same reason: get hands-on training that turns someone into a skilled cybersecurity practitioner and attack-ready cybersecurity professional. Find others like you, share knowledge, build the hacking mindset that will set you apart.
04
Truly Engaged
Submitting machines, leaving reviews, requesting features, reporting bugs, asking and answering questions, are only some of the ways the HTB community interacts with each other. Engaged, active, always there to help.
70k
Meetup Members
Across 82 countries
140+
Meetup Groups
80
Average Monthly Meetups
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