Hackers-Arise

This intensive 3-day course equips cybersecurity professionals with advanced offensive and defensive PowerShell tradecraft required to operate across modern enterprise environments. Through hands-on labs and real-world attack simulations, participants will learn how to leverage PowerShell as both an attack vector and a detection surface, mastering its role in fileless operations, lateral movement, and security monitoring.

The training begins with a deep dive into PowerShell internals and attacker mindset, covering how adversaries abuse native Windows capabilities to execute Living-off-the-Land techniques and evade traditional defenses. Students will explore reconnaissance strategies, environment discovery, and payload delivery methods, including in-memory execution and reflective techniques that bypass disk-based detection mechanisms.

From there, the course transitions into post-exploitation tradecraft. Special emphasis is placed on obfuscation, evasion, and OPSEC practices to simulate real-world adversarial behavior against hardened environments.

On the defensive side, we will analyze PowerShell logging and telemetry, leveraging native and enhanced logging capabilities to detect malicious activity.