If you’ve ever wanted to understand how attackers actually exploit vulnerabilities—not just find them—you’re in the right place.

At the Center for Cyber Security Training, we’re bringing you a guided experience through the well-known Corelan Exploit Development tutorials—one of the most respected learning resources in offensive security.

While the written Corelan series has been around for years and remains incredibly valuable, we know that many learners prefer more guidance along the way.

That’s why we’re adding something new.

A New Way to Learn Corelan

For each part of the Corelan series, we’re providing brand new video walkthroughs, built on Windows 11, to help you follow along step-by-step.

If you’ve ever felt stuck working through exploit development labs on your own, these videos are designed to give you that extra layer of clarity—without taking away the hands-on learning experience.

And the best part:

It’s completely free.

Why Exploit Development Matters

A lot of people learn how to identify vulnerabilities.

Very few learn how to actually exploit them.

That’s where exploit development changes everything.

When you understand exploit writing, you start learning:

  • How memory corruption vulnerabilities work
  • How attackers control application execution
  • How shellcode is executed
  • How protections like DEP and ASLR are bypassed
  • How real-world exploits are developed step-by-step

These are the skills that separate tool users from true technical practitioners.

What We’ll Be Covering

Throughout this series, we’ll be covering topics such as:

  • Stack-based buffer overflows
  • Jumping to shellcode
  • SEH-based exploitation
  • Win32 shellcoding
  • Egg hunting techniques
  • Return-Oriented Programming (ROP)
  • Bypassing protections like DEP and ASLR
  • Converting exploits into Metasploit modules

Our goal is to make these concepts easier to understand while still keeping the technical depth that makes exploit development so powerful.

Who This Is For

This series is perfect for:

  • Aspiring penetration testers
  • Red teamers
  • Security researchers
  • Malware analysts
  • Ethical hackers
  • Anyone looking to go deeper into exploit development

You don’t need to be an expert—but you do need to be willing to learn and stick with it.

Follow Along

If you’ve been wanting to work through the Corelan material but needed a bit more structure or guidance, this is your opportunity.

We’ll walk through it together—step by step.

We also want to give a huge thank you to Corelan for continuing to make such incredible exploit development content freely available to the community over the years.

And a special thanks to wetw0rk for helping modernize and update the series for 2026, making it easier for today’s learners to follow along in a modern Windows environment.

Want to Go Even Deeper?

If you find yourself wanting more guidance beyond the videos, we also offer in-person training courses where you can work directly with instructors, ask questions in real time, and go deeper into exploit development concepts.

For those serious about building advanced offensive security skills, this can be a powerful next step.