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Capture The Flag
Your XP is now visible in CTF events
Remember we said CTF events can earn you XP? Now you can see the XP available from CTF challenges and your team’s total XP earned when an event ends!
With XP visibility available, you can choose what to tackle next and see your team’s progress after each event.
Heading on to your next event?:
- Check XP before playing: Open a challenge on the CTF gameplay page to see XP per team alongside Points and Difficulty in the Overview tab.
- Understand your share: For challenges and Sherlocks, the displayed XP represents each member’s share of the completion XP, split equally among the team’s members in the event.
- Review your team’s results: When the event ends, the summary shows Team XP Earned compared to the maximum you could have earned.

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Profile
Mobile
Personalized content recommendations are live
We updated the HTB Profile dashboard to give you intelligent, personalized content recommendations. You'll be able to find your next Modules, Machines or Sherlocks based on your past completions and preferences!

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Offensive
New Cloud Lab scenarios are now available on HTB Enterprise Platform
Ready to take your cloud offensive skills further? Meet Ymir and Atlas, two advanced cloud labs designed to challenge experienced security professionals with realistic environments, complex misconfigurations, and multi-stage attack paths.
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n Ymir,
step into Omni Multinational’s Google Cloud environment and work your way from its publicly reachable presence toward its most valuable asset: proprietary trading algorithms and intellectual property.In Atlas,
take on the company’s AWS environment, uncover exposed assets, exploit weaknesses, and chain attack paths to gain deeper access across its cloud infrastructure.Each lab puts your enumeration, identity and access management, and exploitation skills to the test, with challenges spanning modern cloud services, applications, containers, and more.
Expect to tackle:
- Advanced Google Cloud and AWS enumeration
- Cloud misconfiguration and IAM exploitation
- Web application and API security
- Serverless, container, and Kubernetes exploitation
- Software supply chain security
- AI, LLM, and MLOps security
- Hybrid cloud attack paths and lateral movement
- Cloud security mitigations and best practices
Two cloud environments. Two distinct attack surfaces. Plenty of opportunities to put your skills to the test.


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Academy
Defensive
Mobile
Introducing the HTB Certified Detection Engineering Principal (HTB CDEP)
- Added Certified Detection Engineering Principal (HTB CDEP), a principal-level practical certification dedicated to detection engineering.
- Added the 13-module Detection Engineer Job Role Path, covering adversary tradecraft, Windows and Linux internals, and low-level telemetry.
- The exam consists of a 10-day hands-on enterprise engagement and a mandatory commercial-grade technical report.
- Completing the full path and all end-of-module practical skills assessments is required before attempting the exam.
- The new Platinum Annual plan costs includes path access and an HTB CDEP exam voucher. The path can also be unlocked with Cubes, and the voucher can be purchased separately.
- The voucher includes two exam attempts and has one-year validity.

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New certification detected on HTB Enterprise Platform: HTB CDEP
Hack The Box introduces
Certified Detection Engineering Principal (HTB CDEP)
, an advanced certification designed to help organizations develop and validate detection engineering expertise in their security teams.Effective detection engineering requires more than writing SIEM queries. Teams need to understand how adversaries operate at the process, memory, API, and operating system kernel levels, identify the telemetry that reveals their behavior, and build detection logic that can be tested and defended.
HTB CDEP combines a 13-module Detection Engineer Job Role Path with a 10-day hands-on enterprise engagement to assess these skills in realistic scenarios. Key capabilities include:
- Advanced detection engineering:Develop detection logic grounded in adversary behavior and low-level telemetry across Windows and Linux.
- Validated expertise:Demonstrate skills through a 10-day enterprise engagement and a mandatory commercial-grade technical report.
- Internal capability building:Help organizations identify skills gaps, strengthen in-house expertise, and reduce dependence on external specialists for complex detection development and maintenance.
The Detection Engineer Job Role Path is mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, and the DoW Cyber Workforce Framework (DCWF).

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Neural Pro lab is live on HTB Enterprise Platform
What happens when an AI consultancy becomes the target?
Neural is an AI & Active Directory hybrid lab that puts you inside a corporate environment where AI-driven workflows are deeply integrated with the underlying infrastructure.
That creates attack paths that cross the boundary between AI and traditional enterprise security. Your goal is to find them.
Compromise AI integrations, abuse Active Directory, move across trust boundaries, chain weaknesses together and work your way through the environment.
Neural puts the AI attack surface where it belongs: in the middle of a real enterprise attack path, alongside the infrastructure security teams already know they have to defend.
Put your skills to the test across:
- Active Directory enumeration and exploitation
- Web application attacks
- AI workflow and integration abuse
- Privilege escalation
- Trust boundary traversal
- Lateral movement across internal infrastructure
Can you uncover the weaknesses hiding behind Neural’s AI-powered infrastructure?

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New AI-Augmented learning paths: Learn to direct an AI agent without giving up your judgment.
It’s not enough to know how to use an AI tool. You need to know what to delegate, what to verify, and when to intervene, especially when an AI agent is moving quickly, operating across multiple tools, or confidently getting something wrong.
Our new learning paths are built around that shift.
AI Foundations & Literacy skill path
Build the mental models you need to understand what AI systems are actually doing and where they can go wrong.
Learn how models, retrieval, agents, memory, context, and tool calls work, and how to verify AI output against ground truth.

AI-Augmented Penetration Tester job-role path (CPTS-aligned)
Run offensive workflows with agents while keeping the engagement under your control.
Learn to direct agents across reconnaissance, exploitation, and post-exploitation while maintaining scope, verifying their proposals, protecting OPSEC, and knowing when to intervene.

AI-Augmented SOC Analyst job-role path (CSDA-aligned)
Use AI agents to accelerate investigation and response without letting speed replace analyst judgment.
Learn to evaluate agent conclusions against evidence, catch confident-but-wrong analysis, calibrate autonomy, and recover when an agent takes the wrong path.

The first modules are only the beginning. More content will build on these foundations as the paths expand.
Start building the skills to work with AI as part of the team, not just as a tool.
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New Learning Module: Threat Planning and Reconnaissance
Effective adversary emulation begins long before the first packet is sent.
This module covers the planning and reconnaissance that precede a red team engagement, exploring how operators decide which adversary to emulate and how they gather information about a target while remaining undetected. As organizations mature their defenses, the ability to plan a realistic engagement and conduct reconnaissance without being detected is what separates a convincing emulation from a noisy one.

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HTB PRO is officially live
Train across the entire cyber operational spectrum with a single membership. HTB PRO combines enterprise-grade offensive and defensive hands-on training directly inside HTB Labs, giving you full VIP+ access, 10 flagship Pro Lab environments, and upcoming SOC Range simulations.
What is included:
- 10 flagship Pro Labs: Access real-world enterprise network environments like Dante, Zephyr, Offshore, RastaLabs, and Shinra.
- Full VIP+ access: Get unlimited access to retired Machines, Challenges, and 150+ new Sherlocks from the LetsDefend platform.
- Pro Lab preparation tracks: Master enumeration, privilege escalation, and pivoting with prerequisite paths built for Dante, Zephyr, Wanderer, and Offshore.
- SOC Range (coming Q4 2026): Work real-world security analyst shifts with live alert queues, SIEM logs, playbooks, and one-click containment actions.
HTB PRO is available now on HTB Labs for $49 per month or $490 per year. Existing VIP+ options remain active alongside this subscription.
Learn more here.
👉 Get started with HTB PRO here

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Play Uplink, the final chapter of Operation Red Horizon
The 1st HTB Enterprise Season comes to an end with Uplink, a Hard Windows Machine.
Investigate a compromised satellite ground segment, uncover weaknesses in its command-signing pipeline, and determine whether forged commands can reach privileged execution paths.
Skills covered:
- ECDSA cryptographic weaknesses and private-key recovery
- Source-code review and Git repository reconnaissance
- Windows lateral movement and privilege escalation to SYSTEM
New to Operation Red Horizon? Catch up on previous scenarios

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