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🚨 OFFICIAL LAUNCH of Interactive Live-Instructed CTF Quests on Guardian Foundry! This is our very first one: Phish Slayer Quest - Spot the Bait We’re running a real 2026 BEC phishing email campaign analysis together live on the platform. In this beginner-friendly session you’ll: • Learn 4 things SOC analysts check in the first 30 seconds • Build your first IOC table • Submit a Technical Summary for grading Everything is graded instantly + you earn 15 XP + your first Skill Sheet entry. Zero experience needed. Perfect for newcomers and early intermediates. This is just the beginning, the same attacker returns in a second attack with malware obfuscation, then you submit the full report for real instructor 1 on 1 manual review. Goes live 12PM EST April 10th - multi-streaming on all socials. Free to join! Create your free account and be part of the very first live CTF Quest! 👉 leveleffect.com

NEW Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting CERT! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Are you ready to become CDETH incarnate? Certified Detection Engineer & Threat Hunter IS NOW LIVE! 🔥 Big content drop + LIVE STREAM 👀 today. 16 challenges each reviewed by an Instructor to earn a verified certification URL testing your: - Alert Classification - Regex - YARA - Sigma - Adversary Emulation All your rules reviewed for context and nuance. Explain why and how they work with production environment requirement considerations. This cert was designed by Jonathan Johnson (@JonnyJohnson_ ), Principal Windows Security Researcher. Unlimited attempts for subscribers or if purchased for $149. 🤯 PLUS - additional Detection Engineering content in our first Campaign: - Snort Rules for Network Intrusion Detection - Sigma: Mastering Vendor-Agnostic Detection Rules - Threat Hunting Through Adversary Emulation - Automating Detection Engineering with CI/CD Pipelines - Endpoint Emulation & Detection These modules act as quests on our platform. You'll walk away with dozens of production-ready detection rules in your GitHub as a portfolio. Live walkthrough at 1PM EST today on Twitch, YouTube, X, and LinkedIn. On our Guardian Foundry now: leveleffect.com Big shoutout to our community voting on the cert name! 👏

@ICPsimp nice, thanks for sending this over will take a look a bit later!

@Level_Effect Check these out when you get a chance. 1. x.com/i/status/20534… 2. x.com/i/status/20552…

We're live now on an AMA on r/cybersecurity. Got EDR questions? training/career questions? want to ask more about us? Let's hear it! reddit.com/r/cybersecurit…

Had a blast today on The Payload Podcast. Went over Event Tracing for Windows (ETW), as well as EtwInspector & EtwWatcher. John and I plan on getting back on track for biweekly episodes, so stay tuned! AND keep an eye out on the new Payload Podcast socials coming out soon!

@JBirdCyber Yeah we're pumped! might tease some of the CTF stuff on stream on Fri too

@Level_Effect Looks dope.

🚢 HUGE UPDATES for May 🚨 - Reddit AMA on r/Cybersecurity - May 14 - NEW CERT!! 🔥 - Practical Detection Engineer (PDE) - May 15 - Detection Engineering content: Sigma, Endpoint Emulation, CI/CD, Threat Hunting - May 15 - Blue Team Live CTF with Leaderboard & Feedback! (teaser img below) - May 22 - Developer stream end of Month - May 28 What are students saying?? "I've filled one task so far. Document cybersecurity incidents. I was able to instantly write better cases at work." "It's one thing to find artifacts. It's another to clearly explain what happened and why it matters. This lab forced both." Full details on newsletter: news.leveleffect.com/p/blue-team-ct…

We're former NSA, EDR builders, and Cybersecurity trainers since 2020. We're doing an AMA on r/cybersecurity this Thursday, 9AM EST. Sharpening your skills, navigating mid-career, or building security tools? Bring your questions. See you Thursday.

Do all Cybersecurity roads eventually lead to Detection Engineering? Maybe a bit reductionist… but everything else: reversing, CTI, threat hunting, IR, analysis, etc. eventually feeds into: “How do we detect this and mitigate it?”

@_ContinuumCon_ @brysonbort @strandjs Amazing list here ! 🔥

🔥 ContinuumCon 2026 June 12-14 Workshops Announced! Stacked with content, plus a special event: This year we'll have a Live AMA with @brysonbort and @strandjs - Q&A, commentary, and the top-tier banter. Workshops 👇 # Roll Your Own Analyst by Rain Jordan Build your own local AI threat intel pipeline with Python & Ollama # Killing Active Directory Attack Paths Once and For All by @techspence Hands-on destruction of major AD attack paths with hardening to mitigate # Hacking Over & Under The Wire by @klrgrz Beginner-friendly SSH & PowerShell using OverTheWire wargames and trying back to tradecraft # Practical Security Engineering by @IceSolst Stand up SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets scanning for free using GitHub Actions # Prompt Injection Fundamentals & Hack-Along by Eva Benn and @Andrew Bellini Practical, beginner-friendly walkthrough of prompt injection fundamentals. It's a solid on-ramp if you want to get into AI pentesting! # Escaping Sandboxes with AI by @ZackKorman Hands-on techniques for finding and executing AI sandbox escapes # Instant API Hacker by @hAPI_hacker Fast-paced exploitation of the OWASP API Top 10 with the author of Hacking APIs # Smarter AWS WAF: Reduce Noise, Detect Threats & Automate Response by Ihor S. Production-ready AWS WAF with custom monitoring, Slack alerts & automated threat response! # Tactical GRC - Turning Governance Into a Force Multiplier for Security Teams by @fletusposton Build lightweight, engineering-aligned GRC that actually accelerates security work! # How to Analyze Malware by Matthew N. Safe, practical malware analysis workflow for beginners – static, dynamic & real sample walkthrough! # Analyzing WannaCry: A Forensic Method for Recovering Ransomware Data with Open-Source Software by Smit Nayak Deep forensic recovery of WannaCry artifacts using open-source tools – DFIR gold! # StegoDefender: Hunting Malware Hidden in Plain Sight - Advanced Steganography Detection & Payload Extraction by Christopher Dio C. Detect & extract hidden malware from images & files with next-level steganography tools! And we'll be hosting content again this year through the great @getCourseStack platform! Big thank you to all putting the work and time in in to bring this con to everyone! 🙏 @_JohnHammond @JustHackingHQ @AnthonyBendas @Level_Effect Got your ticket yet? 🎟️ Head over to: continuumcon.com

🚨 NEW Detection Engineering drop! Test your Sigma rule authorship by analyzing real Windows and Sysmon event logs to detect adversary techniques mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework: 1. Reconnaissance via Built-in Windows Tools 2. Encoded PowerShell Execution 3. Suspicious Child Process of Office Application 4. LSASS Memory Access (Credential Dumping) 5. Suspicious Outbound Network Connection on Reverse Shell Port 6. DNS Query to Suspicious Domain 7. Run Key Persistence via Registry Modification 8. Scheduled Task Creation for Persistence 9. Brute Force via Repeated Failed Logons 10. Pass-the-Hash Detection Write rules. Get personalized feedback on how accurate YOUR detection is, and how you individually can improve. $19 or included in Adventurer + Guardian tiers with all our content. 👉 Get it on our platform: leveleffect.com Cybersecurity training tailored to you.

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Write detection rules -> get feedback on them. Come check out the features we're building today at 12PM EST.

🚨 Month-End Dev Stream #3 / April 30 Thursday 12PM ET Another month. More features: - Detection Engineering challenges to write better rules. This comes out as its own Quest on the platform this Friday! - SysAdmin, SOC Analyst? You asked for paths - you got it. We've created "Campaigns" compromised of quests for workforce roles. - Interactive CTFs - we had our first one, we'll review it, and talk about our next one with more features. - Purchase to own content - we know some of you like to own your content. Now you can. - Report Writing - tighter submission constraints forcing you to be able to communicate concisely. - Universal search so you stop digging and start training faster. Come check out the Guardian Foundry as it grows!

The year is 2026. Cybersecurity is still about keeping passwords.txt out of sight. We continue to improve. It used to be in your documents. But we stopped using the new Notepad. In 2027 there's no telling where this file might end up. Do YOU know where your passwords are?

🕐 1 hour left on our free Phish Slayer Interactive CTF! 1-on-1 Instructor reviews testing your business email compromise skills ! Test your Cybersecurity might. Head over to our platform: leveleffect.com Log in -> Training -> Quests -> Phish Slayer

> "You know what. I am REALLY LIKING this 1 on 1 with feedback." > "Yes, learning while not in a bubble is so beneficial" Students saying this in our Discord right now. We love seeing this. If you haven't checked out our Guardian Foundry yet for what personalized Cybersecurity learning is like - hop over to: leveleffect.com

@techspence Yep, and same reason why everyone wants to become a pentester at first! highest reaction invoking content and where attention goes, money flows

Why are so many people/platforms focused solely on finding vulnerabilities? My gut reaction is, it’s one of the easiest and direct ways to monetize FUD.