Your HTB Profile now includes an automated Badges showcase that highlights your achievements across HTB Labs and Academy. Clicking any badge reveals the full artwork, completion criteria, and global rarity statistics. This update helps you track your total progress and provides a public-facing snapshot of your milestones.

We have successfully rolled out HTB XP, a cumulative points system that tracks lifetime growth across the entire HTB Labs and Academy platforms.

XP is now awarded for Machines, Challenges, Academy Modules and Paths. This score is non-deductible and reflects your lifetime activity. More content integration is coming soon.

Completing Active Labs now grants an automatic 1.3x XP bonus.

Climb through 7 new ranks and 3 sub-grades, and more than 100 levels for more frequent rewards, all the way to Grandmaster.

A streak advances when 200 XP is earned within a calendar week (Monday 00:00:00 UTC to Sunday 23:59:59 UTC).

Labs VIP/VIP+ (Monthly and Annual) and Academy Annual subscribers now automatically receive Streak Savers every month (Max 3 held at once).

The HTB COAE is a professional certification designed to validate advanced skills in AI red teaming and is now available on HTB Academy and HTB Enterprise plans. It serves as the final assessment for the AI Red Teamer Job-Role Path, which was developed in collaboration with Google.

The certification consists of a 7-day practical engagement where candidates must assess a complex AI-driven infrastructure. The exam evaluates proficiency in adversarial ML, LLM output exploitation, and AI system security. A commercial-grade technical report is required for successful completion.

If you are an individual, you can access the full path and the HTB COAE exam through our Silver Annual subscription on HTB Academy.

For those of you hacking as part of a team, the certification and its accompanying path are available for all Grow and Scale plans on the HTB Enterprise Platform. Want to explore the right plan for your team? Book a demo with us here.

A new , Persistence Tradecraft Analysis, is now available on HTB Academy. This course provides an in-depth look at Windows persistence mechanisms, covering everything from their role in the attack lifecycle to detection and investigation.

Throughout this module, you will explore how adversaries abuse legitimate system features like Scheduled Tasks, Windows Services, and Registry-run keys to ensure that malicious code executes automatically. The content focuses on identifying system artifacts left behind by attackers and translating that knowledge into reliable, effective detection rules for real-world environments.

HTB Academy certificate holders now have access to dedicated, public-facing pages for every certification earned. These pages offer a professional, verifiable way to showcase your technical expertise to employers and the community.

Users can access these pages directly through their HTB Profile. Clicking on any earned certificate credential takes you to that certificate's dedicated public page.

Key features include:

The HTB Academy platform has officially migrated to Academy 2.0. This update establishes the new interface as the primary environment for all learners. It’s faster, smoother, and built to power the next wave of content, features, and skill progression.

The previous interface has been retired to ensure a unified experience across the platform.

HTB Profile introduces a centralized view of your achievements and skills across Hack The Box platforms.

With the HTB Profile, you can:

Learn more about it here.

The Privilege Escalation Tradecraft Analysis module covers the analytical study of privilege escalation tradecraft on Windows, from its role in the attack lifecycle to how it can be detected and investigated. While completing this module, you will analyze real-world techniques and exploits to understand how they work internally and learn how to translate this knowledge into effective and reliable detection strategies.

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HTB CWPE is a hands-on, cloud-based certification that brings wireless security training into the modern age. Paired with the WiFi Penetration Tester Job-Role Path, it's one of the few programs to offer a holistic curriculum, real-world practice with WPA3 attacks, and doesn’t require specific hardware or complex setups.

Included in the job-role path and certification are learning material and hands-on labs that focus on how attackers actually approach wireless environments: reconnaissance, exploiting weak configurations, credential attacks, evil twins, captive portals, and full corporate Wi-Fi attack chains for anyone who wants to properly understand and test wireless security, not just check a box.

Get started with HTB CWPE here or learn more on our blog here.

The module provides a structured, hands-on introduction to the most common and impactful security risks affecting modern mobile applications. By completing the module, you will learn how mobile vulnerabilities arise, how to categorize them based on known mobile security frameworks, how they are exploited in real applications, and how to identify and remediate them using techniques learned in the previous modules.

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