This new Sherlock will put your team’s forensics investigation skills to the true test. Hunter will have you delve into a challenging incident response scenario investigating a suspected attack involving lateral movement and credential stuffing.

Obtain the crucial skills in working with limited network capture data in forensic analysis and strengthen your defensive capabilities through a hands-on environment.

Adversarial Labs, Challenges, and Sherlocks are all waiting to help you put your skills into practice and develop a Purple Team mindset — all in one solution.

Contact your assigned account manager if you wish to add this set of labs to your current HTB enterprise plan.

At Hack The Box we believe in celebrating and recognizing the effort and commitment of your CTF participants. We’re excited to announce that CTF participation certificates are now available! 🎓

Offer tangible proof of your participants' dedication to skill development and problem-solving in the cybersecurity domain and foster a sense of achievement and motivation.

How to download your certificate

• Visit your past events
• Select the certificate icon

• Enter your details
• Claim your certificate of participation.

Join us in celebrating your journey of growth and excellence by organizing your own event.

All users with an active Pro Labs subscription can now revert single Machines within a Pro Lab just by following an automated, easy-to-use workflow powered by our technical customer support team.

You have time until October 31st, 2023 at 23.59 to grab your exclusive Cybersecurity Awareness Month discount on annual Pro Labs subscriptions. Use the code hacktheboo23 and get 20% OFF.

What does REVERT mean?

By reverting a single Machine on a Pro Lab scenario, you will only restore the Machine state as it was in the beginning. This massively improves the experience of all Pro Lab users, who do not need to request the entire lab reset (usually taking around 30 minutes).

Important things to note

• This is still a Beta Version of the feature. We will keep testing and monitoring to provide the best experience to our players.
• It is currently available on DANTE and ZEPHYR scenarios, as it takes time to implement safe reverts correctly.
• There is a one-hour cooldown for revert requests.

Read more about how to revert Pro Lab Machines in this help article.

We are officially expanding to a wider audience, becoming an all-in-one solution for any security enthusiast or professional. HTB CDSA is here to set a new standard on how individuals and organizations approach threats with the goal of making humans the strongest link in cybersecurity.

The HTB Certified Defensive Security Analyst (aka HTB CDSA) is a highly hands-on certification that assesses candidates on multiple domains, techniques, and concepts of defensive security. HTB Certified Defensive Security Analyst (HTB CDSA) certification holders will possess technical competency in the security analysis, SOC operations, and incident handling domains at an intermediate level.

Students will be able to access the Certified Defensive Security Analyst exam upon completing the SOC Analyst job-role path on HTB Academy. While studying through the path, students will have the opportunity to investigate simulated security incidents, analyze attacks, and deliver tasks that are essential in the current job market landscape on the following domains:

• SOC Processes & Methodologies
• SIEM Operations & Tactical Analysis
• Log Analysis
• Threat Hunting
• Active Directory Attack Analysis
• Network Traffic Analysis
• Malware Analysis
• DFIR Operations

Defensive security for enterprises.

The average cost of an attack is about $2.5M. At the same time, companies find it challenging to source and retain talented security professionals. This shortage leads to increased workloads and burnout among existing team members.

HTB CDSA provides threat-informed and market-connected courses, with an exam designed to confirm the skills acquired through a practical on-the-job assessment and continuous evaluation. Get in touch with our team to know more.

We are thrilled to get our next Season underway. The team at Hack The Box has put in work to ensure this Season shapes up to have the twists and turns you need to sharpen your skills while always improving the quality of the labs. The new Beta Season III - Hackers Rift will kick off on September 30th. Be sure to boot up by then and tackle the weekly Machines dropping every Saturday at 19:00 UTC.

Improvements & updates

• Teams can now rank together starting this Season! If you're curious about what that will look like, you'll find a toggleable teams section at the top of the leaderboard. Teams rank as their team members earn points through flag captures or bloods. Be aware, teams do not receive their own prizes at this time... But you never know the future!
• Season III will have a duration of 12 weeks instead of 13. This is an exceptional case, as going for the normal Seasonal timeframe would have taken us too close to the festive period and possibly made it more difficult to play the last Machine for a good amount of our user base.

More (including useful tips & tricks) on our blog update.
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The current threat landscape and the level of sophistication of modern attacks dictated the creation of a new-generation security analysis certification targeted toward aspiring SOC professionals via a highly practical curriculum that provides actionable knowledge.

We are excited to present our new SOC Analyst job-role path: 15 threat-informed and market-connected courses, including how to identify incidents from multiple detection perspectives, effectively perform security analysis tasks, and create meaningful reports.

💭 Corporate teams can also access the entire path with tailored business plans, coming with additional features. Get in touch with our team to know more.

We have added more context to our Machines to better educate the user base on the HTB training offering and provide more comprehensive learning material.

Under the Machine Info section, users are now redirected to useful HTB Academy courses. We have identified these courses based on the main vectors and techniques that must be used to complete the lab correctly.

With the previously launched Academy x HTB Labs feature, this improvement will provide a better cross-platform synergy and more Machines to be pwned!

The demand for Security Analysts alone is expected to be 150% higher than the average growth projected for all occupations. But which skills does the modern SOC Analyst need to succeed?

Find out what over 400 cybersecurity professionals consider the:

• Most fundamental skills and knowledge domains (including incident response, threat detection, and more).
• Key priority skills over the next 5 years.
• Best practices to address burnout and talent shortages with upskilling programs that support the career goals of defensive security professionals.

To support those looking to speed up their mastery of essential cybersecurity concepts, we have introduced a new way for you to practice: our new Guided Mode feature provides further direction to solve Machines in the form of a set of questions pointing to the correct root flag path.

Guided Mode can be found under the Play Machine section. Here you will be asked to select between:

• Adventure Mode—the classic HTB way of learning and solving labs. You will be provided with an IP address, and after that, how to get your flag is your business!
• Guided Mode—our new premium feature. A set of questions acting as guide paths will show you the intended way for each Machine, coaching you to the root flag.

Especially for beginners, Guided Mode offers a smooth transition from beginner-friendly Starting Point labs to more advanced scenarios, where they combine techniques, tools, and attacks.

Guided Mode is a premium feature available to all VIP and VIP+ subscribers. Users on a free plan can enable Guided Mode on Free Retired Machines.

📣 As we continue to enhance the capabilities of the CTF Platform, we are introducing various feature packs that empower CTF organizers with comprehensive event management capabilities.

With these new features, organizers will have the flexibility to modify event settings and configurations independently without the need for coordination with our technical delivery team.

The second tab in our event management suite, 'Event Settings,' enables customers who have purchased their events through the CTF Marketplace, providing them with the following benefits:

• Modifying team sizes
• Viewing and altering their event password
• Hiding the scoreboard
• Enabling analytics for all participants
• Pausing the event
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The upcoming feature pack will provide access to players' information, enable report generation, and offer options to edit participation.

Looking to host your private CTF competition?