HackForLab 15-Month Threat Hunter Career Roadmap · From SOC Analyst to Threat Hunter — 5 phase content-rich timeline · Phase 1 Mindset (Months 1-3) · Phase 2 Telemetry (Months 4-6) · Phase 3 Tradecraft (Months 7-9) · Phase 4 Hunts (Months 10-12) · Phase 5 Portfolio (Months 13-15) · each phase shows 4 key practices and goal · 15 months · 5 phases · 20+ practices · 1 career change
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From SOC Analyst to Threat Hunter in 15 Months: The Complete 2026 Career Roadmap

A 15-month career roadmap for SOC analysts transitioning to threat hunters — five phases of three months each (Mindset, Telemetry, Tradecraft, Hunts, Portfolio), with weekly cadences, success metrics, common pitfalls, and FAQ for working analysts.

12 Must-Know AI Terms in 2026 — the complete glossary for builders, defenders, and learners — LLM, hallucination, token, training, inference, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, distillation, RAG, chain of thought, weights, validation loss, coding agent
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12 Must-Know AI Terms in 2026: The Complete Glossary for Builders, Defenders, and Learners

The complete 2026 AI glossary — LLM, hallucination, token, training vs inference, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, distillation, RAG, chain of thought, weights, validation loss, and coding agents. Plain-language definitions plus technical depth plus cybersecurity tie-ins for SOC analysts, threat hunters, and detection engineers.

HACKFORLAB Weekly Threat Advisory · June 8-14, 2026 · 76,205 indicator observations across 154 adversary clusters · radar showing intelligence graph with crosshair locked on featured cluster · DPRK 6x escalation, Velvet Ant APT, Tor anonymisation surge, Mirai wave, Clearfake, Formbook
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Weekly Threat Advisory: Top Cyber Adversaries, June 8 – 14, 2026

76,205 indicator observations across 154 adversary clusters. Tor anonymisation network surged to 17% of the catalogue, DPRK activity escalated six-fold, and the Velvet Ant network-appliance APT cluster reappeared. Full MITRE ATT&CK technique pressure, Sigma detection recipes, and platform-ready intelligence.

HACKFORLAB Weekly Threat Intelligence Advisory · June 1-7, 2026 · 55,729 indicator observations across 91 adversary clusters · radar showing intelligence graph with crosshair locked on featured cluster · Silent Ransom, DPRK, VShell, Mirai infrastructure flood, AdaptixC2, VerdantBamboo
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Weekly Threat Advisory: Top Cyber Adversaries, June 1 – 7, 2026

55,729 indicator observations across 91 adversary clusters this week — featuring Silent Ransom Group, DPRK-aligned activity, VShell, and a Mirai-class IoT seeder wave. Trend analysis, severity breakdown, detection recipes, and the platform to query it all.

HACKFORLAB Threat Hunting Playbook · June 1-7, 2026 · Hunt hypotheses, query patterns, detection engineering recipes · open-source C2 frameworks, Linux backdoors, helpdesk impersonation extortion, APT campaigns, supply chain worms, commodity RATs, IoT botnets
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The Threat Hunter’s Sigma Playbook: 7 Hunts Every Modern SOC Must Run

A 2026 threat hunting playbook with seven battle-tested Sigma rules, a MITRE ATT&CK coverage matrix, and success metrics for SOC analysts, threat hunters, and detection engineers. Hunt the techniques, not the indicators.