I passed the eCTHP exam on 11/22/2025. I am writing about my experience with the course and the exam because I have not seen many posts referencing this certification exam. The Course: Threat Hunting Professional (New!) The course’s instructor is Brian Olliff. It is divided into 6 domains: Introduction to Threat Hunting, Intelligence in Threat …
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Try Hack Me: Event Horizon
This room was released on 8/8/2025 and is rated HARD in difficulty. Shout-out to the room creator, hadrian3689. You can access the room at https://tryhackme.com/room/eventhorizonroom. This is a blueteam challenge. The skills/tools to be tested and needed to complete this challenge are Traffic Analysis using Wireshark, Debugging/Reverse Engineering using dnSpy, and Encoding/Decoding using CyberChef or Terminal. Scenario: Join Tom and …
LetsDefend: WannaCry Ransomware
LetsDefend rated this challenge as Medium in difficulty. This Blue Team challenge can be accessed at https://app.letsdefend.io/challenge/wannacry-ransomware. I answered the questions in this challenge using the tools Volatility, Oletools, and FTK Imager. I used 2 separate VMs for my analysis. One is a Remnux VM for memory analysis, and the other is a Windows 11 VM to analyze a …
LetsDefend: Ransomware Attack
Scenario: An end-user device was infected by ransomware. A memory dump was captured from the compromised machine, and it is our task as digital forensics investigators to find the evidence of the attack. The memory capture file that was provided to us is in .mans format which is a Mandiant Analysis File. This should give …
Try Hack Me: Traverse
This room was on 8/4/2023 and is rated easy in difficulty. Shout-out to the room creator, @1337rce. You can access the room at https://tryhackme.com/room/traverse. Scenario: Bob is a security engineer at a firm and works closely with the software/DevOps team to develop a tourism web application. Once the website was moved from QA to Production, …
What You Need to Know If You Are Thinking of Taking the SANS SEC504: Hacker Tools, Technique, and Incident Handling and the GIAC Certified Incident Handler Certification Exam
Who is the SEC504 course for? The content of the course can be considered for beginners in the Cybersecurity field- if and only if you have basic experience with Linux CLI and Windows CMD or PowerShell. I will cite an example later on. But if you have not done any Linux commands such as cd, …
CyberDefenders: AzurePot
This Blue Team challenge was published on April 20, 2023, on CyberDefenders.org. You can access the challenge at https://cyberdefenders.org/blueteam-ctf-challenges/101#nav-overview. Shoutout to Tyler Hudak for creating the challenge. I completed the challenge on the same day it was published. I got so hooked that I didn’t want to stop until I completed it. I rated the …
How To Revoke A Letsencrypt Certificate If You Don’t Have The Account That Issued It Or The Private Key
Have you ever been in a situation where your organization stopped using cloud service and then realized that a valid certificate is still tied to the old IP address that you were assigned? That is the exact situation we were in, a scammy-looking gaming site was using the same IP address that our organization was …
Try Hack Me: Boogeyman 1 (BlueTeam)
This room was released on 4/14/2023 and is rated medium in difficulty. Shout-out to the room creator, ar33zy. You can access the room at https://tryhackme.com/room/boogeyman1/. This is a blueteam side of the cybersecurity field. The skills/tools to be tested and needed to complete this challenge are Phishing Analysis, PowerShell Log Analysis, Linux Commands, and Traffic …
CyberDefenders: BlackEnergy
This Blue Team challenge was released on February 19, 2023 from CyberDefenders.org. You can access the room at https://cyberdefenders.org/blueteam-ctf-challenges/99#nav-questions. Shoutout to @HouseOfStark for creating the challenge and also for being so responsive and kind in entertaining questions and inquiries about the challenge on Discord. I’ve had interactions with other creators where they just shrugged their …
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