You now have the power to earn exciting rewards by inviting your friends to join Hack The Box Academy. It's as simple as sharing the joy and benefits of our platform with those you know.

Once your friends register, complete modules, or purchase subscriptions, you will be rewarded with cubes as a token of our appreciation.

The Rewards

The Hack The Box Academy referral program offers multiple rewards. You may be awarded cubes when the following conditions are met:

After Registration 👨‍💻

• Refer 2 Friends → 5 Cubes
• Refer 5 Friends → 10 Cubes
• Refer 15 Friends → 20 Cubes

After Module Completion ✅

Every time a user you invite completes HTB Academy modules, you can unlock rewards. The amount of cubes is based on the modules’ Tiers, as follows:

• Tier II module completed → 5 Cubes
• Tier III module completed → 10 Cubes
• Tier IV module completed → 20 Cubes

After Subscription Purchase 💰

Every time a user you invite purchases an HTB Academy subscription, you can unlock rewards. The amount of cubes is based on the subscription plan, as follows:

• Silver Monthly → 35 Cubes
• Gold Monthly → 65 Cubes
• Platinum Monthly → 120 Cubes
• Silver Annual → 300 Cubes

Referral Link Usage:

You can find your referral link through your Hack The Box Academy user dashboard. It will provide information on the number of referrals you've made, how many have converted, and the rewards you've earned.
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Part of the Hack The Box mission is to provide our community with constantly up-to-date content, following the latest trends and threats. We are excited to introduce a new Challenge category focusing on blockchain technology.

This new set of cybersecurity upskilling content will address main Web3 concerns and vulnerabilities that affect developers, corporations, and users.

Practice on Hack The Box

We have developed a comprehensive set of Challenges (powered by HackenProof) aimed at transforming inexperienced developers into highly skilled individuals proficient in understanding the underlying technology of smart contracts and the associated security challenges.

Embark on an epic and fully gamified 8-bit RPG adventure alongside Alex, where you'll be transported to a world teeming with mythical creatures and endless possibilities. Prepare for the adventure of a lifetime, where courage and determination will be your greatest allies.
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Blockchain security for enterprise

Organizations can employ experts to help you design a compliant and secure solution and help you achieve your business goals or upskill talent in-house.

When building an enterprise blockchain application, it’s essential to consider security at all technology stack layers and how to manage governance and permissions for the network.

Blockchain Challenges will soon be available for business customers, enabling major organizations to act safely and protect millions of funds. Get in touch with our team to know more.

Get ready. Season II is about to start (with some improvements). When the seasonal format was announced, we refreshed our ranking system to crank up the competitive element of HTB and engage all platform members with rewards and prizes for different Tiers.

This is, of course, a work in progress. Still, we are excited to share that our team is already incorporating community feedback to improve the HTB Seasons experience.

Start Date: June 17th

Season II - Hackers’ Clash will officially kick off on June 17th and run until September 9th, 2023, to include 13 Machines released each Saturday at 19:00 UTC. As mentioned, Points and Tiers from the previous season will reset, and everyone will start at zero.

Improvements

• Achievement Badges: Every player will now be awarded HTB Seasons badges. By scrolling down to Seasonal Badges, you can find our badges directly on your user profile in the “Badges” section.
• Seasonal Time: Based on lots of feedback from the community, we have decided to keep one (1) week to complete a seasonal Machine. This looks like a sweet spot for everyone, and most of our platform members voted for this option.
• Prize adjustment: We have slightly changed the rewards for each Tier and the overall leaderboard. Prizes have been adjusted to ensure they are coherent with the rank progression, and every higher rank will be rewarded with a higher monetary value.

There are great product updates for you 🎉

We have been working hard to upscale and improve our Pro Labs offering on all fronts, always prioritizing the experience of our community members and the value of our labs.

📣 NEW SCENARIO: ZEPHYR

Meet Zephyr! Our new intermediate scenario (Red Team Operator Level I) is now available for all users.

The primary learning objective of this new Pro Lab scenario is to upskill users on Active Directory concepts and techniques, but every player advancing through Zephyr will be exposed to multiple key learning outcomes, including:

• Enumeration
• Exploitation of a wide range of real-world Active Directory flaws
• Lateral movement and crossing trust boundaries
• Password Cracking
• Privilege escalation
• Web application, SQL, and relay attacks
• Pivoting
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💰 NEW SUBSCRIPTION PLAN

All community members will now have the chance to access all Pro Lab scenarios for a flat fee of $49/month ($490/year - saving two months in total) with the ability to switch between scenarios at any given moment.

We also have officially waived the setup fee and expanded the access from only a single Pro Lab per subscription to all the available scenarios - and future ones that will be released.

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Discover this brand-new way to share your achievements! We have just released these awesome HTB Academy Badges: you can find them directly on your Academy dashboard under the section “My Achievements” and “My Badges.” What are badges for?

• Module Completion - you will earn this type of badge when you complete any module on Academy.
• Path Completion - completing a job-role or skill path will unlock these badges.
• Exam Completion - an additional reward for our certified students! Pass a certification exam, and you will be able to earn this badge.
• Knowledge Domain Mastery - these badges will be awarded to users completing a mission (set of modules or paths) related to a specific knowledge domain.

🎖️ Will you be the one collecting them all?
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🗣️ IMPORTANT NEWS

Hello, friend!

Our weekly releases and the entire ranking system are changing! The new competitive mode, aka HTB Seasons, will allow players to compete over 13 weeks from a common start to see who can claim the top spot.

A Season will be a defined timeframe over which a number of Machines will be released. Each Machine will be live as part of the Season for one week. After that week, the Machine will still be playable as an Active Machine, but solving it will not generate points for the Season.

⏰ The first Open Beta Season will start on March 4, 2023, and run until May 27, 2023, to include 13 Machines released each Saturday at 19:00 UTC.

A brand new feature is now live 🎉

We've recently added the opportunity to discover the relations between different products in the Hack The Box Multiverse: Academy, Labs, Pro Labs, and more.

• Complete an HTB Academy module and discover easily which lab can provide the right hands-on training based on what you learned.
• Feeling stuck in a lab? Check out in just two clicks which HTB Academy modules you should complete to polish your skills.

... And more use cases that will show you how to skyrocket your cybersecurity learning journey!

Are you ready to start the new year with the thrill of a Hacking Battlegrounds tournament featuring young cybersecurity prodigies worldwide?

🗓️ January 7, 2023 - 2 PM UTC

🎥 Live on the official HTB Twitch channel

🎙️ Commentated by IppSec & John Hammond, our favorite hacking legends!

Thirty-two (32) teams of four (4) players will battle for more than 3 hours until the last flag in a bracket-style, single-elimination tournament. Five rounds of play will determine which team is the grand prize winner!

See you there 👋

P.S. Interested in trying Hacking Battlegrounds? Play Now →

HTB Academy is enhancing its guided learning approach through one-to-one tutoring on module exercises using accounts connected to the official Hack The Box Discord server.

• If a student submits the wrong answer three (3) times, a pop-up appears asking to link the HTB Academy account to the Discord account.

• After the student connects the accounts, a “Request Help” button appears. By clicking this, the student will send a request to a dedicated Discord channel where training coordinators and the HTB Discord Team will guide them towards the correct solution.

• Only when the student finds the correct solution, our staff will mark the request as resolved.

The initial roll-out will be available to HTB Academy Silver Annual subscribers exclusively.

We want to make sure we can perfectly handle all the requests and offer top-notch and timely tutoring to every student.

If you’re a user of the main Hack The Box (HTB) app, you can now use the self-served Dedicated Labs option to experience the benefits of our Business platform without relying on the HTB team to manually set up/create an organization for you.

Dedicated Labs is a product on the Business platform that gives you:

• The ability to invite 5-10 team members to a shared Business account
• Access to a Lab that you can populate with machines and challenges of your choice
• Access to Reporting for your whole team (including metrics like skill progression, activity, timeline, and flag owns)
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You can purchase the self-serve option for Dedicated Labs directly from the HTB website.

How is Hack The Box for Business different from the main Hack The Box app?

By purchasing self-served Dedicated Labs, you get access to the Business platform. HTB Business is tailored to team cybersecurity training. It offers additional tools for user management, custom Lab creation (called Dedicated Lab), and reporting (which is not available in the main HTB app). The main app, on the other hand, helps individual hackers hone their skills.

HTB Business empowers you to be more deliberate about your team’s skills development by forming teams and owning machines. You can add your entire team and simply choose which members to assign to a Dedicated Lab for training.

What are Dedicated Labs?

Dedicated Labs make it easy to build a group of machines and challenges of your choice. They offer access to all the machines and challenges available in the main platform, along with filters to pinpoint the exact exploits and technologies you want your team to focus on. Additionally, a Dedicated Lab offers a specific set of seats for users to start training on selected machines. These seats can be reassigned to different employees as each one progresses their skills in owning machines and challenges.

Finally, with your team trained on CVEs of interest, HTB Business/Dedicated Labs offers reporting tools to monitor progress. You and your team can analyze skills development for a subset of team members (or the whole team) via machines and challenges.