The most advanced HUMINT & sHUMINT exercise we've released yet.
New release: EX-CTF-002 - Operation Silent Predator
This isn't a multiple-choice quiz.
It's a full-spectrum intelligence investigation where you must reconstruct a sophisticated attack against a financial institution in Zurich from initial OSINT reconnaissance to a €3.2M wire transfer attempt involving a deepfake CEO.
You'll have to identify and correlate:
• Target profiling and digital footprint mapping (OSINT)
• Honey-trap recruitment and insider identification (HUMINT)
• Deepfake CEO fraud and AI-generated phishing (sHUMINT)
• Supply-chain compromise and dark-web intelligence
• Hidden intelligence across multiple evidence sources
• The complete attack chain across the investigation
Some answers are not sitting in plain sight.
You'll need to analyze metadata, decode evidence, correlate information across phases, and identify what the attacker was doing not just what the evidence says
⚠️ DIFFICULTY: HARD - ~3–4 hours
You have 5 hints for the entire exercise.
Use them wisely.
The scenario revolves around PHANTOM SPIDER a financially motivated threat group combining traditional social engineering and insider recruitment with AI-generated deepfakes, voice cloning, and LLM-powered phishing at scale.
And there is no simple path to the answer.
You need to reconstruct the operation.
Think like the attacker.
Upon successful completion, you'll receive a personalized Aether Intel exercise diploma containing your name, final score, and completion time.
Not proof that you know the terminology.
Proof that you can apply it.
🔗 EX-CTF-002: Operation Silent Predator available now on the Aether Intel Training Labs.
“The most dangerous threat is the one you never hear coming.”
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