APTnotes VS DetectionLab

>with case studies and getting as niche on specific things as possible.

Then definitely you can touch on APT marketplace, unlike the usual zeroday ones, those are -as the name implies, advanced, and mostly are state sponsored, you can find some of these in this sheet [1], or other sources [2] or older ones [3]. Now, for other zero day exploits, you can dig into your typical threat intelligence feeds to have an idea, some of these are daily updated [4] [5] [6] among a lot more of other resources, there are also underground databases for zero day and even APT updated as of yesterday, and also online marketplaces for those where you can buy/sell compromised RDP servers / webmail / cPanels / etc., or even services like smtp-sms for phishing among others, unfortunately, I can’t and won’t list any of these in here for obvious reasons, however, if you dig a little deeper definitely you will find something, just don’t use the usual search engines and normal channels, and get the usual security precautions like sandbox/vpns/etc. when access any of these sites, preferably in an isolated OS too.

And thanks, not expert enough for sure!

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1H9_xaxQHpWaa4O_S...

[2] https://gist.github.com/Neo23x0/c4f40629342769ad0a8f3980942e...

[3] https://github.com/kbandla/APTnotes

[4] https://bazaar.abuse.ch/browse/

[5] https://www.exploitalert.com/browse-exploit.html

[6] https://threatfox.abuse.ch/browse/

I trained up this repo in my privateGPT - https://github.com/kbandla/APTnotes

APT Notes

I would tell someone they should use a cloud lab like Clong's "Detection Lab" which gives them not only the security aspect but the cloud and engineering aspects as well.

Detection Lab Link: https://github.com/clong/DetectionLab

Not sure what your goal with splunk is but I'd recommend Detection lab! Once you get the pre reqs setup, building and tearing down is super easy and you get a pre-baked ad environment to generate logs for you. https://github.com/clong/DetectionLab

I found a great starting point at the repo of DetectionLab : https://github.com/clong/DetectionLab

While it's true what most are saying, that you don't need a powerful system to learn hacking....... You DO have a valid point that a powerful system enables things a weaker system may not. For example with 64GB of RAM you can run a full network lab simulation such as https://github.com/clong/DetectionLab additionally a solid high end graphics card will let you run things like hashcat a lot faster. In theory you could make a rainbow table. You still need a lot of time to understand all the basics but yeah there's a few cool things you can do with more power it's not ENTIRELY unneeded. I wish I knew about the local defcon group long ago. They're welcoming and some have capture the flags you can play. Understand the various job roles there are in security and figure out which one you like. You get paid to do specific things not just learn about hacking.

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