Labs Live: Maze Challenge
# This was recorded on 19th August 2025. SabrinaKayaci will be guiding you through Advanced CTF Challenge: Improbable Maze, the first challenge in our latest CTF collection. StefanApostol will then walk through Introduction to Active Directory Attacks: Domain Passwords, which will prepare you for one of the upcoming Maze Labs, Blood Maze (yes, it is as sinister as it sounds!) In the first lab, what seems impossible at first turns out to be merely improbable. The maze blocks your path to the goal, but there’s a subtle flaw you can exploit with the right tools. Your task is to look beneath the surface: analyze how your moves are handled behind the scenes and use that insight to make the improbable probable. Can you capture the flag by thinking beyond the obvious? In the third lab, you’ll face another maze. At first glance, this one looks abandoned, with its secrets buried beneath layers of time and access controls. Your task is to break through these forgotten barriers: enumerate users, gain a foothold, and uncover secrets using classic offensive tools. Dig deep, analyze everything, and piece together what the years have obscured. Can you awaken the maze and capture its ancient flag? Improbable Maze is rated difficulty level five, and Blood Maze is rated an eight. As this collection is designed to push your skills, the labs offer minimal guidance, and there are no hints or tips available. Be sure to join the session for expert advice and the opportunity to play along. This is your chance to get a strong start and gain a competitive edge. If you have a license, navigate to Exercise → Challenges & Scenarios → Maze → Advanced CTF Challenge: Improbable Maze to get started.Introducing the Human Connection Study Group! 💻🔐
We’re excited to kick off the first ✨ Immersive Study Group ✨ of 2025! This new initiative is all about learning together, tackling one cyber lab each week, chosen by you, our community. It’s your chance to dive into a new subject, tap into the collective knowledge of fellow professionals and enthusiasts, and make meaningful peer connections along the way. Here’s how it works: Vote for the topic: Every week, you’ll have the chance to vote on the lab topic. Complete the lab: The community lab choice will be announced in the forum every Monday. Then it’s over to you to start (and finish) it within the week. Collaborate & Discuss: Join the forum discussion to share your experiences, challenges, top tips while you are completing the lab. Peer-to-peer support is the name of the game! Ready to get started? Click here to cast your vote for the first lab of 2025!🏁 Episode 7 of Season 1 of The Human Connection Challenge is Closed! 🏁
Hey everyone, We hope you enjoyed Lab 7 of The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1 our most difficult challenge yet! It's been fantastic to see the community collaborating and sharing your experiences, thanks to everyone who shared their hints, tips and support. 19 of you successfully completed this lab and over 300 of you have been entered into the prize draw to win some fantastic prizes: 🥇 Tickets, Flights & Accommodation to an Immersive Summit in NYC or London 🥈 2 x PlayStation®5 Consoles 🥉 10 x Apple AirPods or JBL Headphones 👕 Much coveted Immersive swag and goodies! We will be drawing names out of the hat later today and will contact the winners directly. As per usual, the lab walkthrough will be shared shortly and we have a special webinar about the lab on Thursday. Join us to hear directly from lab author and evil genius StefanApostol. In the meantime, please drop a comment below and let us know how you got on with this challenge, and what you would like to see from Season 2...The Human Connection Challenge: S1E1 Update
Don't Forget! There is only 1 week left to complete the first lab of the Human Connection Challenge if you want to be in with a shout of winning an exclusive digital badges, physical challenge coins, swag and prizes. So far, over 80 of you have already completed The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1 - Episode 1. If you are yet to complete it, you have until midnight on Sunday 24th November 2024! To read more about the challenge click here. To find it in the Immersive Labs Platform, Click Exercise > Challenges & Scenarios > The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1 Don’t forget to Follow The Community Blog to get a notification whenever a new Challenge Lab is released! Good Luck!Cyber Countdown: Day 1
Lab of the Day Every day we’re revisiting a standout lab from the past year—highlighting its impact and the skills it helped build, whilst also introducing you to the experts who built it. To get us started, today’s lab is of course Episode 2 of our Community Challenge -Scanning. In this lab we’ll test your scanning and enumeration skills but other than that, you’ll find limited information available to guide you. Lab author BethHolden, Cyber Security Engineer here at Immersive Labs is passionate about offensive cybersecurity and created this challenge as a little Christmas treat. The lab contains a range of tools which may provide multiple ways to solve the challenge, she’s eager to see how well you fare – good luck! As a reminder, we reward the top performing community members in the following categories: 🥇 First to Finish ⏱️ Fastest to Complete 🎯 Most Accurate 💪 Most Persistent 🎁 Spot Prizes In addition, at the end of each month, the lab author will provide a walkthrough to guide you through the lab and share hints, tips and expert advice on how to approach similar labs in the future. We also encourage you to submit your own walkthrough guides to community@immersivelabs.com and we will feature any unique approaches in their own Community Walkthrough Guide. You can read more about Season 1 of the Human Connection Challenge here. To be in with a chance of a prize you have until midnight on Sunday 22nd December 2024 to complete episode 2! To find the lab in the Immersive Labs Platform, Click Exercise > Challenges & Scenarios > The Human Connection Challenge: Season 1 > Scanning 🔔 Don’t miss out – there are 5 more labs to come in this challenge series. Make sure you're following the CHALLENGES Tag to get notified as soon as each one is released. Good Luck!
📚 Study Group: Vote for your favourite topic!
Well done to everybody who took part in this week's ✨ Immersive Study Group ✨ We're back again with the second poll, so you can steer the direction of the study group. If you missed it last week, this is what Study Group is all about: This new initiative is all about learning together, tackling one cyber lab each week, chosen by you, our community. It’s your chance to dive into a new subject, tap into the collective knowledge of fellow professionals and enthusiasts, and make meaningful peer connections along the way. Here’s how it works: Vote for the topic: Every week, you’ll have the chance to vote on the lab topic. Complete the lab: The community lab choice will be announced in the forum every Monday. Then it’s over to you to start (and finish) it within the week. Collaborate & Discuss: Join the forum discussion to share your experiences, challenges, top tips while you are completing the lab. Peer-to-peer support is the name of the game! Ready to get started? Click here to cast your vote for the next lab!💻🔐 Study Group Announcement - Offensive Cybersecurity Lab Chosen! 💻🔐
You may have heard that we're launching a Study Group within the community. And for the first time, the votes are in, and we’re diving into Offensive Cybersecurity for our very first Study Group 🖥️💥 This week, we’ll be exploring hands-on tactics in offensive cybersecurity in a safe, controlled environment, and the chosen lab is Hack Your First Web App: Ep.1 – Ozone Energy How to get involved: Dive into the lab: Get started on the lab and challenge yourself to complete it by the end of the week. Join the discussion: Don’t forget to share your experiences, ask questions, and drop any tips or tricks you’ve picked up along the way in this forum discussion. Support each other: This is all about collaboration—whether you’re struggling with a concept or want to share an "aha" moment, jump into the conversation! Remember, we’ll re-vote on Friday for next week’s lab, so stay engaged and help shape where this study group goes. Let’s learn together and level up our skills! Every community member who has access to an Immersive license is welcome to join this study group. Happy hacking! 🔓💻
