TL;DR: SpecterOps Tradecraft Academy is now live at academy.specterops.io, offering free, on-demand courses built by SpecterOps: BloodHound Basics, Software Supply Chain Security for Red Teamers, and Kubernetes for Red Teamers, with adversary tradecraft for AI and LLMs coming soon! 

SpecterOps was built on the idea that a deep understanding of adversary tradecraft is the most effective way to meaningfully defend against it. That belief shaped our services, drove the research that gave rise to tools like BloodHound, and made training a core pillar of what we do. Our Adversary Tactics and Adversary Perspectives series of courses distill what we learn on real engagements into structured, hands-on curriculum with immersive labs that we can share in live classes across the world. These courses are deeply technical and hands-on, built for practitioners ready to develop real depth in offensive and defensive tradecraft. They’re taught by the Specters doing the work daily, and students learn in a shared environment where they work through labs alongside one another, often as a team. 

Designing and delivering courses of this depth takes time to do right. But not every attack path, technique, tool, or lesson drawn from emerging technologies calls for a week-long course in a physical (or virtual) setting. Some of the most valuable tradecraft our teams develop lends itself to a faster and more flexible format than we’ve historically offered. 

That’s why I’m excited to share that today we’re launching the SpecterOps Tradecraft Academy, our new on-demand training platform, now live at academy.specterops.io. The Tradecraft Academy reflects the same commitment to transparency that drives our research, tools, and community contributions. It’s built to share what we’re learning in the field in a flexible format security practitioners can access on their own schedule and apply quickly. 

What’s available now 

These courses are live today for free, each built by SpecterOps consultants and researchers: 

• BloodHound Basics, built by Jean-Damien Douillard, takes you from first login to capable operator across both BloodHound Community Edition and BloodHound Enterprise. This course covers installation, data collection with SharpHound and AzureHound, ingestion, data exploration, and graph analysis across Active Directory, Entra, and Azure environments. The course also covers Cypher querying, API usage, OpenGraph extensions, administration, and how to interpret findings and remediation plans.  

• Software Supply Chain Security for Red Teamers, built by Kieran Croucher and Andrew Luke, connects fundamental software supply chain concepts, real-world case studies, and modern defensive frameworks to help red teamers and defenders understand how supply chain attacks happen and how to emulate or defend against them — combining conceptual depth with hands-on labs to build practical foundation in an urgent and important discipline. 

• Kubernetes for Red Teamers, built by Alex Rodriguez, Hector Riestra, and Hunter Orrantia, teaches Kubernetes attack paths through a progression of core security concepts and hands-on lab scenarios. You’ll learn why each transition works as you move through deeper layers of access, identity, and control, applying concepts that explain lateral movement, privilege escalation, and broader cluster compromise. By the end, you’ll be better prepared to evaluate a cluster’s security posture and leave with a working lab environment built for continued research and practice. 

Register for free at academy.specterops.io to get started! 

What’s coming next 

This is the first step in a broader on-demand training experience from SpecterOps,  one that complements our live training offerings and expands the ways practitioners can develop and deepen their adversary tradecraft knowledge. New content and specialized tracks will roll out over time, with the goal of keeping the curriculum in lockstep with our services, research, and product work. As technologies expand, techniques evolve, and attack paths emerge, we aim to quickly turn those insights into accessible training. That includes upcoming content on red team tradecraft for platforms like AWS and macOS, alongside the next course in the queue, Adversary Intelligence: LLM Tradecraft. 

See it live at Black Hat USA 

Come find us at the Kennel Club at Black Hat USA, where practitioners from SpecterOps, OpenAI, and the UK AI Security Institute will be giving talks, running live Tradecraft Academy workshops, and be on hand for discussion. See everything planned at specterops.io/black-hat.

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Andrew Chiles

Vice President of Tradecraft

Andrew Chiles is the Vice President of Tradecraft at SpecterOps and leads teams specializing in tradecraft research, capability development, and training.