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Flare<\/a>, the leader in identity-first cyber threat intelligence (CTI), today announced the public launch of Darkroom by Flare Academy<\/a>, a free, interactive training experience that gives security practitioners, analysts, and students hands-on exposure to the underground ecosystems they defend against.<\/p>\n Most defenders learn about the dark web through reports, redacted screenshots, and post-incident analysis. Darkroom instead places learners inside a purpose-built virtual environment where they can investigate forum conversations, browse stealer log archives, analyze breach data, and trace compromised identities.<\/p>\n The four-hour, self-paced experience draws on the environments and criminal tradecraft that Flare researchers navigate every day. Participants explore dark web forums, initial access broker listings, ransomware-as-a-service operations, infostealer malware, stolen credential distribution, cryptocurrency tracing, threat-actor attribution, and pre-breach intelligence.<\/p>\n \u201cCyber threat intelligence is most valuable when defenders understand how attackers actually operate and how seemingly disconnected exposures come together before a breach,\u201d said Eric Clay<\/a>, Head of Research at Flare. \u201cDarkroom gives the security community a practical way to build that understanding through an experience grounded in real-world tradecraft.\u201d<\/p>\n Darkroom also features AI-powered threat-actor personas that respond to participants\u2019 decisions, allowing the experience to adapt beyond a traditional scripted exercise. Learners who pass the assessment can earn a Flare Academy certification, continuing professional education credits, and a digital badge.<\/p>\n Flare will also bring Darkroom to DEF CON 34<\/a> for a live event on August 6 in Las Vegas from 5 \u2013 9 p.m. PT. The experience will combine guided instruction with an interactive capture-the-flag competition featuring realistic underground forums, breach data and AI-powered threat actors. Participants should bring their own laptops.<\/p>\n Darkroom is available for free through the Flare Discord community<\/a>. To access Darkroom, visit flare.io\/darkroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flare, the leader in identity-first cyber threat intelligence (CTI), today announced the public launch of Darkroom by Flare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-582028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}