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r/blueteamsec

71.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 519 upvotes, which works out to 7 per 1,000 members.

7peak upvotes per 1,000 members
71.2Kmembers
519best post
95most comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Link 70% Text 20% Image 7% Video 2% Question 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

tradecraft (how we defend) 25 intelligence (threat actors) 13 highlevel (not technical) 11 vulnerability (attack surface) 8 exploitation (what's being exploited) 7 training (step-by-step) 7 discovery (how we find bad stuff) 7 highlevel summary|strategy (maybe technical) 6 intelligence 3 exploitation 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Log4j 0day being exploited

↑ 519 💬 85 text 2021

Cyber is hard

↑ 256 💬 20 image 2022

Multiple Exploits for CVE-2019-19781 (Citrix ADC/Netscaler) released overnight - prepare for mass exploitation

↑ 204 💬 95 text 2020

Understanding The Workings of Russian Hacker "Wazawaka"

↑ 161 💬 0 link 2023

Microsoft Technical Takeoff session on the new LAPS

↑ 154 💬 72 text 2022

Merry Christmas Cyber Defenders - 🎄🎅🤶🧑‍🎄🎁

↑ 152 💬 7 text 2021

[Tool] Intel Owl, free and open source threat intelligence solution

↑ 151 💬 28 text 2020

Ooooof

↑ 146 💬 12 image 2022

Periodic Table of Windows Events

↑ 134 💬 11 image 2024

Godaddy hacked - including admin passwords for both WordPress sites hosted on the platform, as well as passwords for sFTPs, databases and SSL private…

↑ 134 💬 11 link 2021

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/blueteamsec, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.