Name & Direct Link: Threat Hunting Labs

Cost: $0 – $281/year

Community: There is a Discord community

Description: A training platform built for threat hunters, SOC analysts, incident responders, and detection engineers who want to train the way they actually work. Every investigation runs against real intrusion telemetry from sanitized breach cases, inside a platform-native search console where you write real queries, form hypotheses, and validate findings with evidence. No synthetic noise or contrived puzzles. Just investigations that force you to think, adapt, and prove your conclusions.

Topics:

Threat Hunting Labs covers four core disciplines, all built on the same rich, real-world datasets:

• Threat Hunting: Proactively search through telemetry to find evil, form hypotheses, and follow the trail wherever it leads.
• Incident Response: Respond to a critical alert, triage the damage, and make time-pressured decisions with real consequences.
• Detection Engineering: Move beyond finding evil to codifying it. Write and tune detection rules against real attack patterns.
• Malware Analysis: Go hands-on with malware from the intrusion in a secure, dedicated REMnux environment tied to the case telemetry.

Name & Direct Link: ADF Weekly Computer Training Sessions

Platform: ADF Solutions

Cost: Free

Description: Weekly training sessions to get ADF users started with what they need to know to get the best out of ADF computer forensic software.

Name & Direct Link: ADF Weekly Mobile Training Sessions

Platform: ADF Solutions

Cost: Free

Description: Weekly training sessions to get ADF users started with what they need to know to get the best out of ADF mobile forensic software.

Name & Direct Link: Threat/Warning Analyst (OSINT and Dark Web Pathway) 

Platform: CyberSkills2Work/Dakota State University

Cost: Free for Eligible Students.

Application Link: https://cyberskills2work.org/join

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
• Must be a veteran, transitioning service member, first responder, military spouse, or government personnel.
• Must have at least a high school diploma, GED, or equivalent. School transcripts of the highest level of education completed are required.
• Must have some IT or cybersecurity experience.

Courses Included:

• OSINT Foundations
• OSINT Optimized
• OSINT Search Engine Researcher
• OSINT Social Media Researcher
• OSINT Technical Researcher
• OSINT Public Records Researcher
• OSINT Analyst
• OSINT Presenter
• OSINT Special Investigator – Capstone

Name & Direct Link: BelkaGPT: Effective Artificial Intelligence in DFIR

Platform: Belkasoft

Cost: $999

Hands-On: Yes

Proof of Completion: Certificate of Completion. There is an optional certification exam for $99.

Topics:

• Key concepts behind artificial intelligence in general and BelkaGPT in particular
• Understand BelkaGPT’s hardware requirements, scope, limitations, and capabilities
• Install and configure BelkaGPT, and become acquainted with its user interface and basic workflow
• Gain hands-on experience mastering efficient BelkaGPT prompts to save hours of your time when solving a case
• Learn how to use BelkaGPT Hub and accelerate AI processing for the entire team

Name & Direct Link: Malware Analysis – Intermediate Level

Platform: Malware Analysis for Hedgehogs

Cost: $489

Course Instructor: Karsten Hahn

Community: There is a Discord server

Proof of Completion: Certificate

Topics Include:

• Calling conventions for x86/x64
• C++ string deobfuscation and Ghidra scripting
• Compression, encoding and cryptographic algorithms
• Theoretical foundations of signatures and patterns
• Writing signatures with YARA
• Code based signatures for x86
• Unpacking
• Hooks, syscalls and x64dbg scripting
• Shellcode analysis, PEB walking, import hashing
• Writing and automatic hash resolver

Name & Direct Link: Cloud Labs

Platform: Invictus Incident Response

Good for Beginners: There are easy labs available

Cost: Free – $58.56/month

Proof of Completion: The “All-In” subscription offers digital badges

Description: Hands-on practice with cloud incident response. Microsoft  365, Azure, Sentinal, AWS and more.

Name & Direct Link: Cybersecurity Foundations

Platforms: YouTube & Level Effect

Cost: Free – $19+ (Pay What You Can)

Hands-On: Labs are included with the Pay What You Can courses

Proof of Completion: There is a certification for the Pay What You Can courses

Community: They have a Discord server

Free YouTube Videos:

IT Fundamentals

• IT Fundamentals – Module 1 – Windows Operating System
• IT Fundamentals – Module 2 – Linux Operating System
• IT Fundamentals – Module 3 – Networking

Compliance Fundamentals

• Compliance Fundamentals – Module 1 – Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC)

Cybersecurity Fundamentals

• Cybersecurity Fundamentals – Module 1 – Cybersecurity Industry
• Cybersecurity Fundamentals – Module 2 – Cryptography
• Cybersecurity Fundamentals – Module 3 – Logging for Security
• Cybersecurity Fundamentals – Module 4 – Cyber Threat Intelligence

SOC100-1 & SOC100-2 (Course, Labs, Certification) – $19+ Pay What You Can

The courses in the YouTube videos above that were previously part of their Cybersecurity Foundations path are now part of SOC100-1 & SOC100-2.

SOC100-1 Topics:

• Windows Operating System
• Linux Operating System
• Networking
• Windows Enterprise Administration
• HelpDesk Analyst & Troubleshooting
• Career Prep Portfolio
• Home Lab

SOC100-2 Topics:

• Cybersecurity Industry
• Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC)
• Cryptography
• Windows Triage & Malware Analysis
• Email Security
• Log & Event Analysis with SIEM
• Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)
• Report Writing
• Career Prep – Malware Lab

Name & Direct Link: Not Scary Binary

Platform: YouTube

Hands-On: Yes – Course exercises are on GitHub

Topics:

• Binary Encoding
• Min & Max Values
• Hexadecimal
• Byte Ordering
• Masking and Shifting

Name & Direct Link: Malops – Advanced Malware Analysis Training Platform

Cost: Free

Community: They have a Discord server

Description: Explore real-world malware scenarios, learn new techniques, and build confidence through practical experience.