Mastering Red Team:The Complete Cyber Security Course (2026)

before cyber operations, threat actors conduct organized planning to set attack parameters and restrictions, such as not targeting six CIS countries, to avoid risky engagements and ensure operation continuity.

Analyze a fictional ransomware operation against a hospital, detailing goals, target selection, exit strategy, timeline, and operational budget including malware, vpn services, and bitcoin mixing.

Examine how APT 69 gains footholds via social engineering or drive-by campaigns, then evades defenses with open source tooling, and weighs in-house ransomware versus ransomware-as-a-service options.

Analyze how APT 69 balances custom tools and footholds against ransomware as a service, addressing attribution risks, opsec, and the cyber kill chain.

Analyze a state-sponsored APT case targeting an offline air-gapped nuclear facility to exfiltrate technology via covert malware and air-gap communications. Examine long-term operations, zero-day use, malware tailoring, and OPSEC.

Examine Darkside ransomware operators, their ransomware as a service and double extortion, plus usage of living-off-the-land tools, spear phishing, phone extortion calls, and covert data exfiltration via cloud services.

Explore REvil’s ransomware as a service model, its initial access and lateral movement techniques, evasion of defenses, and the disruption of the group by law enforcement and affiliate fallout.

Explores Conti ransomware, its ransomware as a service, affiliate toolkit, and double extortion, detailing operations from initial access via Trickbot and Pasar Loader to memory-only, multi-threaded encryption, evasion, and countermeasures.

Examine how apps use anonymity, fingerprinting, and operational security to protect privacy, and see a real-world demonstration of browsers revealing sensitive data even with vpn or tor.

Explore opsec driven methods threat actors use to hide tracks, including obfuscation, bulletproof hosting, and privacy tools like VPNs and Tor, alongside government traffic analysis and deanonymization risks.

Examine the anonymity dynamics of Tor and VPN usage, including no-log claims, potential de-anonymization vectors, and the role of Tor exit nodes in privacy protection.

Explore VPN privacy vulnerabilities including DNS leaks, WebRTC leaks, and IPv6 leaks, and how browser fingerprinting and side-channel attacks threaten anonymity for VPN and Tor users.

Explore side channel attacks that de-anonymize users on Tor and VPN, including fingerprinting and cursor-movement analysis, revealing persistent digital footprints across browsers.

Examine how threat actors hide IP addresses and conceal the kill chain, yet leave victim signatures used for attribution and motive, as five hacks show failures leading to jail.

Explore blue and red team collaboration to counter modern attacks and why vulnerability assessment and penetration testing alone are insufficient for comprehensive defense, including EDR, SIEM, and XDR.

Explore red team, blue team, and purple team dynamics to conduct adversary emulation and test defenses, share findings, and strengthen detection, response, and threat intel workflows.

Learn how the security operations center collects logs, leverages threat intelligence, generates alerts with SIEM, and responds to incidents, while addressing limitations and analyst workload.

Analyze malware using static analysis to inspect headers, byte sequences, import tables, and hardcoded indicators, while understanding limitations and the role of dynamic analysis.

Demonstrates automated malware analysis of a blackhat ransomware sample from vcs underground, identifying five flags such as erasing volume shadow copies, wc processes, sandbox command tracing, and ransom note extraction.

Analyze the malware sample in VirusTotal to identify the Black Cat ransomware and gather static data like sha256 hashes and creation time, plus sandbox behavior and ransom note indicators.

Explore Intezer Analyze for malware analysis, leveraging genetic summary and packer details to assess code similarity, observe dynamic sandbox activity, and generate indicators of compromise for hunting threats.

The lecture demonstrates using the any.run sandbox for dynamic malware analysis with custom flags and access tokens to execute samples and reveal ransomware-like activity.

Explore how offensive tools and frameworks enhance the cyber kill chain from reconnaissance to initial foothold, including phishing, payload delivery, and covert command-and-control options for red team operations.

Explore how automation accelerates cyber operations, from automated phishing and malware delivery to command-and-control workflows, while red team infra and AI-driven offensives shape modern defense evasion.

Examine how threat actors evade static, dynamic, and in-memory malware analysis by encrypting code, using packers and entropy, applying LLVM obfuscation, and obfuscating Windows API calls to defeat defenses.

Demonstrates how malware evades dynamic analysis with anti VM, anti debugger, anti analysis, and environmental checks, and explains API unhooking and DLL injection on Windows.

Identify memory evasion techniques such as block DLL, ACG protection, and sleep obfuscation to evade memory scanning and detection by EDR and antivirus engines.

Investigate how artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum computing will shape cyber warfare in the next 2–5 years, driving more automated, high-tempo attacks and defenses.

Explore adversarial machine learning and its cyber warfare implications, including poisoning training data, evasion of detection, and model extraction against AI-driven security systems.

Explore how adversarial machine learning and ml scopes shape cyber resilience within a devops framework; examine quantum computing, quantum safe technologies, and the risk of ransomware in modern infrastructure.

Engage in a controlled real-world cyber attack simulation to explore spear phishing with macro-based word documents, exploitation, post-exploitation with command and control, across three attack phases.

Utilize osint to identify think tank targets, map assets, and plan initial access, then simulate a phishing attack using a reverse proxy toolkit to bypass two-factor authentication.

Explore how reverse proxy phishing toolkits hijack user requests, modify responses, bypass two-factor authentication, and automate post-phishing actions to compromise targeted services.

Explains setting up phishing campaigns with two frameworks to mirror VPN gateways via a reverse proxy, capture credentials, and bypass multi-factor authentication through a man-in-the-middle flow.

Learn to set up gophish, craft convincing pretexts such as VPN outages, configure the SMTP sending profile, and launch a targeted phishing campaign while monitoring delivery and recipient engagement.

Demonstrates an initial access attack via phishing and stolen VPN credentials, using a spoofed gateway and spear phishing to target a lead researcher.

Explore how Empire C2 creates a malicious Word document with a VBA macro, sets up HTTP/HTTPS listeners, and uses a stager and obfuscation to deliver and conceal a payload.

Explore how attackers enable Word macros via the developer tab, inject a VBA payload, and deliver a malicious document by email to establish a command and control connection.

Explore how hijacked credentials enable access to a research net, pivot to a domain controller, and execute Kerberos ticket attacks, DC Sync, offline password cracking, and AD enumeration.

Kerberos authentication uses tickets to enable seamless access to domain resources. Active Directory uses LDAP and group policies to manage organizational units, enforce password rules, and auto-install software.

Red team operators gain access to the research net, use a reverse sock proxy and vpn gateway to reach internal resources and access rdp.

Identify an open rdp port 3389 and set up a reverse socks proxy tunnel to route traffic from a behind-firewall system.

Explore how to identify high-value targets on an internal network by leveraging domain access and BloodHound to map Active Directory, visualize configurations, and reveal attack paths.

Learn how Bloodhound maps Active Directory to reveal high-value targets on the internal network, analyzing domain users, groups, service accounts, and SPN associations for attack and defense insights.

Explore attacker findings with BloodHound, Kerberos, and Active Directory insights; audit SQL server permissions using Power Up SQL in PowerShell to plan privilege escalation.

Explore the fundamentals of Active Directory authentication and Kerberos tickets, then demonstrate post-exploitation techniques such as silver ticketing, pass-the-hash, and offline ticket extraction with CrackMapExec and Rubeus.

Explore exploiting ms sql server and mysql database with powerupsql, verify access via targeted queries, employ silver ticketing to operate as administrator, and dump data from the zero knowledge pad.

Explore silver ticketing to gain access to a restricted database server by forging a domain administrator ticket, injecting it to access the MySQL service, and verifying access with Kerberos tickets.

Explore how attackers bypass a zero-knowledge encrypted drive by exploiting credentials and fingerprint verification, revealing access controls around the secret project 5-1 and the need for multi-layer defenses.

Describe a three-step attack path to compromise a domain controller: gain access with a MySQL user as domain admin, dump administrator and Franklin hashes, then use hash abuse over RDP.

Discover how an elevated-privilege agent uses DC Sync to dump domain admin hashes and execute a pass-the-hash attack, then locate targets with BloodHound and access systems via RDP.

Demonstrate a pass-the-hash attack with crackmapexec over a proxy chain to elevate to local administrator, enable Franklin for RDP, and establish remote command access and persistence.

Demonstrate exfiltrating a confidential blueprint from a secret project by gaining access to Franklin drive, using encrypted tunnels and post-exploitation tools to achieve stealthy data exfiltration.

Perform cleanup on Franklin's system by removing local administrator and remote desktop user permissions, deleting hidden scripts and logs, and verifying RDP access is blocked after backdoor removal.

Shows post-exploitation cleanup after gaining domain controller access, including deleting attacker-created files, purging the golden ticket, and using ps exec to execute a remote command shell on the target.