The 4 Types of Hacking Every Beginner Must Understand! (Hacking Gadget Course)

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

Welcome to Lesson 1 of the GhostStrats Free Hacking Gadget Course.

This class builds the foundation of everything you will learn in this course and gives you a beginner friendly introduction into the world of cybersecurity, wireless analysis, and hacking gadgets.

In this lesson we break down
• What the word hack truly means
• What a hacker originally was before the media changed it
• The four core hacking categories
• How these categories apply directly to real hardware and real gadgets

The four pillars we cover are
• Inspect
• Extract
• Manipulate
• Deny

You will see how almost every hacking tool ever created falls into one of these categories. You will also begin to understand that these fundamentals carry over to cybersecurity, network security, and wireless communication.

This course is designed to be practical and hands on. We will show you real world devices. We will demonstrate how they function. You will see how they work on both the offensive and defensive side of cybersecurity. As the course progresses we will dig deeper into each pillar.

Future classes will walk you through
• Setting up the BLE Shark Nano
• Creating your first DIY hacking gadget using the TTGo
• Understanding HID attacks and how the ZeroTrace devices work
• Exploring sub GHz with the T Embed CC1101 Plus
• Inspecting wireless signals
• Extracting data
• Manipulating trusted protocols
• Denying operation for testing and exposing weaknesses

No experience is necessary. You can be a complete beginner. Each lesson moves forward step by step to build your confidence and knowledge. Every expert was once a beginner and this course gives you the learning experience I wish I had when I first started.

Everything in this course is meant for educational and defensive research purposes only. Never use the information here to harm or compromise others. Be respectful. Be humble. Keep learning.

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Links

LILYGO store
Use code GhostStrats to save 5%
https://www.lilygo.cc/ghoststrats

BLE Shark Nano
https://infishark.com

Hak5 WiFi Pineapple Mark 7
https://shop.hak5.org/products/wifi-pineapple?srsltid=AfmBOooWXKj6VBmLyFGYscQl3W4BZnQVEkas85TlBE-62pDGg5_6R0gs

Featured devices

High Boy
https://www.highboy.com.br

Wi-Fi Pineapple Pager.
https://shop.hak5.org/products/wifi-pineapple-pager?srsltid=AfmBOoq-gg7nmaMu1YWznYUw_AJjHG7fj88QhLzunb0LKH75ixGiLq3a

Diabolic Parasite
https://www.crowdsupply.com/unit-72784/diabolic-parasite

ZeroTrace
https://www.zerotrace.pw/store



Chapters ( Time Stamps )

0:01 Introduction
0:08 Lesson Overview
0:49 Hacking Terminology Correction
2:27 Inspect
3:37 2.4 vs 5ghz Side Note
4:58 Wardriving
6:27 Extract
7:25 Manipulate
8:27 Captive Portals
9:10 Deny
11:18 DDOS Explained
12:11 Why Safety is an Illusion
13:12 Final Message to Beginners
14:23 Closing Statements


YouTube Videos Mentioned

USB Kill

https://youtube.com/shorts/Us2IFvO6jMM?si=iWUro5wkDe0esd06

https://youtube.com/shorts/y9OpBWIyoyQ?si=Y17jqCv2Qa2AE2DC

https://youtu.be/KpoDjIu0XeQ?si=gYb7TmISaX8VG4X1

WiFi Pineapple

https://youtu.be/vU8V_2XAvf8?si=rJN9mYCGZ8TKNz_Y

https://youtu.be/6p_cr1CvkZ8?si=yYoEqyq5eJrSzspw

Diabolic Parasite / Drive

https://youtu.be/9gNcCw5vNzo?si=R301q9oaDGpl8YDF

https://youtu.be/PzvfgsgehRE?si=pFJPXkjcch4yngtz

ZeroTrace

https://youtu.be/dFBJZac9V5A?si=3u9Igzba1VOlvMuK

Ring Door Bell Video

https://youtu.be/TVW_NA3vt9E?si=TCxsWw32xxMLT-Bc


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