Charles F. Hamilton (Mr.Un1k0d3r) , CYPFER
Charles Hamilton is a Red Teamer with over ten years of experience delivering offensive testing services for various government clients and commercial sectors. In recent years, Charles has specialized in covert Red Team operations targeting complex and highly secured environments. These operations have enabled him to refine his skills in stealthily navigating client networks without detection.
Since 2014, he has been the founder and operator of the RingZer0 Team website, a platform dedicated to teaching hacking fundamentals. The RingZer0 community currently boasts over 50,000 members worldwide. Charles is also a prolific toolsmith and trainer who has delivered this training more than 20 times, both online and onsite. He is a speaker in the InfoSec industry, known under the handle Mr.Un1k0d3r.
Training: Red Team
Talk: Red Teaming Mindset and Methodology
Talks will be streamed on YouTube and Twitch for free.
Red teaming exercises differ from traditional penetration tests due to their stealthy, goal-driven approach. In this talk, we will cover years of red teaming methodology and the mindset that sets red teamers apart. We will explore gathering information without detection, adapting lateral movement techniques, customizing publicly available toolsets, implementing evasion techniques that actually work, using tricks to get phishing campaigns past modern detection systems, abusing cloud features, and more. This is all about the mindset and the technical methodology required to succeed as a red teamer.
It also highlights the different challenges red teamers face during red team engagements versus traditional penetration tests. Both red teamers and testers can learn from the approach used during red team exercises.
Training: Red Team Training
The training is divided into five sections: Initial Foothold, Gaining Access, Offensive Coding, Internal Reconnaissance, and Lateral Movement. Each section will be covered in depth, providing technical evidence of how each technique works. Red team exercises will be performed to assess responsiveness and detection capabilities. As a red teamer, it is important to understand what each tool and command you use is doing behind the scenes to provide proper guidance. The training will help you understand the tools and techniques used during a red team exercise, develop your own toolset, adapt existing tools when needed, identify new techniques or potential evasion tricks, and gain an overview of the popular methods used in red team exercises.
Expect to perform code reviews, network analysis, code behavior analysis, and write code to enhance your red team capabilities.