Operational CTI: Lessons from the Attacks That Didn’t Target You
Watch the recording from this event here ⬇️ Many organizations overlook vulnerabilities and attack campaigns that don’t directly impact them. While this makes sense for risk prioritization, studying these threats can reveal valuable insights that improve your defensive posture and technical skills. In this webinar, we’ll take you through a technical analysis of a recent malicious campaign and explore how analyzing adversary techniques — even those that haven’t targeted your organization — can uncover hidden gaps in your security strategy and enhance your ability to detect and mitigate future threats. Key Takeaways Threat Awareness Beyond Your Scope – Understanding attack campaigns that don’t directly affect your organization can still provide critical insights into evolving threat landscapes. Improving Defensive Posture – Learning from other attacks helps identify weaknesses in your own security strategy before they become exploited. Expanding Technical Knowledge – Deep-diving into attack techniques and vulnerabilities sharpens your ability to detect and mitigate sophisticated threats. Proactive Security Mindset – Adopting a proactive rather than reactive approach can help organizations stay ahead of adversaries, even if they’re not immediate targets. Applying Lessons Practically – Insights from external threats can shape better incident response plans, detection rules, and security skills.Operational CTI: How Immersive Builds Labs for Real-World Threat Preparedness
This event has now ended. You can watch the recording here. --- 📢 Today's the day! Our exclusive Community webinar 'Operational CTI: How Immersive Builds Labs for Real-World Threat Preparedness' will be live at 3pm GMT (10am EST). Here's a few tips to help you get the most from your experience: 🚀 This is a live, interactive session. Make sure you join the session promptly in order to get the full experience. 🔗 To join today's session, visit the event page or simply use the Zoom link. ❓You’ll also have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A with our expert panel so you can leave with an action plan to turn your ideas into reality! You can pre-submit questions here. Event Description Have you ever wondered how Immersive Labs can release CTI labs on the latest threats so quickly? Come backstage with us on this ✨ Community Exclusive ✨ event to learn just how we do it. BenMcCarthy and benhopkins, two of the experts from the CTI team will reveal what it takes to make a lab, some of their favourites from 2024 and what is to come from the CTI team. Agenda What are CTI labs and how do we select labs to build? Build Stage 1 - Research Build Stage 2 - "Labified" Build Stage 3 - Content Build Stage 4 - QA Some of our favourite labs Examples of speedy launches of labs C2 research What next for our Threat Research and CTI Labs You’ll also have the opportunity to pre-submit questions here so you can ensure that you leave with all of the information you need! This is a Community Exclusive event: Hit the attend button to register. This webinar will be live at 3pm GMT and will be recorded.Labs Live
This event has now ended. You can watch the recording here. Ever felt totally stuck with a lab? Getting frustrated? Maybe you could have used the helpful guidance of an expert? Introducing Labs Live, a groundbreaking community webinar series from Immersive! For the first time, we're bringing you live, interactive lab sessions led by seasoned professionals. In each Labs Live webinar, you'll collaborate directly with an expert as they navigate a challenging lab. They'll share their techniques, answer your questions, and together, you might even discover new insights. This isn't just a demonstration; it's a hands-on learning experience.Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to elevate your cyber skills. Our very first Labs Live session will be hosted by KevBreen Senior Director of Cyber Threat Research, as he tackles the latest Cyber Threat Intelligence Lab. Join him on April 25th to solve it together!Operational CTI: Creating a Proof of Concept
# Recorded on 30th July 2025 Creating proof of concepts (PoC) isn’t always straightforward — it requires a deep understanding of both the target system and the underlying vulnerability. In this session, we’ll walk through how Immersive's Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team move from identifying a vulnerability to developing a working PoC used in offensive lab environments. Join us to explore the tools, thought process, and technical steps that turn raw intelligence into actionable outcomes for detection, validation, and defence.` This is a live session and there will be opportunities to ask questions to Immersive CTI experts.Decoding the May Retail Cyber Onslaught
Join us for a pre-recorded fireside chat between Immersive's VP Cyber MaxVetter and Director, Cyber Threat Research KevBreen, as we delve into the recent sophisticated cyberattacks that shook major UK brands like Marks & Spencer, Co-Op, and Harrods as events are still unfolding. This session will expose the inner workings of ransomware cartels like DragonForce, which operates a "Ransomware-as-a-Service" model, and their affiliates, such as the English-speaking Scattered Spider group, notorious for their highly effective social engineering tactics. We explore how these criminals exploit human vulnerabilities to bypass robust security, gain network access, exfiltrate data, and deploy ransomware, leading to significant financial losses and reputational damage. Discover the evolving threat landscape, the impact on businesses, and crucial lessons for building robust technical defenses coupled with continuous employee training and incident response plans. While this is a pre-recorded event from our Bristol community meetup, events and impacts are still unfolding, so post your question for MaxVetter and KevBreen to answer in the comments of this event! ⬇️New Labs - Malterminal: Malware Analysis
With artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) fast becoming a more popular and talked-about set of technologies in every industry in society, it's no surprise that LLM-enabled malware now exists that can dynamically generate code, query data, and offload malicious functionality to LLMs, lowering the barrier of entry for threat actors deploying malware. This lab introduces one of the first known malware samples to ever facilitate the use of LLMs to perform malicious functionality. Why should our customers care? Most, if not all, companies are looking into using AI to varying degrees, whether to make their workforce more efficient and productive or to build full models that facilitate technical processes. With this in mind, and with the advent of basic malware that can use API keys to query LLMs and AI services, we will likely see this particular malware set evolve over time. By doing this lab, you'll begin to see how these pieces of malware are just the stub and querier for AI and how they can be used maliciously. This will showcase what this threat is like in its current state. We shall be monitoring how this threat evolves, so stay tuned for more labs. Who is the defensive lab for? SOC Analysts Incident Responders Threat Hunting Here is a link to the lab: https://immersivelabs.online/v2/labs/malterminal-analysisNew CTI Lab: Investigating a ClickFix Intrusion
ClickFix has become one of the most popular and successful social engineering techniques in the last decade. With multiple deployment options and a high success rate, cybercriminals are profiting considerably from unsuspecting victims in enterprise organizations and at the individual level. What is this about? In recent weeks, multiple intrusions have been reported in which cybercriminal actors compromised victims using ClickFix as an initial access method. ClickFix is a social engineering technique that convinces victims to copy malicious code to their clipboard and run it with administrator privileges under the guise of software updates, installations, computer repair, or troubleshooting. In this lab, we move away from Questions and Answers and towards action-based activities. This lab simulates realistic user-generated noise alongside realistic attacker actions, which are ingested by a SIEM. The user has to apply threat hunting techniques and then update the SIEM case management tool to reflect the discovered artefacts. Why is this critical for you and your team? The SOC is the beating heart of the security function. The SOC will often be the first individuals (second only to the victim) who will get any indication that a malicious attack has taken place - so it's important for the SOC to understand exactly how ClickFix intrusions work, what tactics attackers use, and how to threat hunt based on known techniques to quickly and accurately identify attacker behaviour. This lab will help users understand how ClickFix works and what goals an attacker might have after the ClickFix element of their intrusion concludes. Who is the content for? SOC Analyst Incident Responders Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysts Threat Researchers Threat Hunters Red Teamers Link to the lab: Investigating a ClickFix intrusion
