foyl Learn ยท Concepts

How attacks work. How defenses work.

Visual, interactive explainers of the techniques and tools behind modern cybersecurity. Step through attack chains, click vocabulary terms, and see real detection examples from the foyl SecIntel environment.

14 concepts Interactive demos Attack chains Vocab explorer Real examples
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Step through the attack Each concept page walks you through an attack or defense technique one action at a time, with animated diagrams showing exactly what happens at each stage.
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Click any vocab word Technical terms appear underlined in blue throughout each page. Click them for an instant definition without interrupting your reading.
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See it in the SOC Every concept links directly to the foyl Learn tools and scenarios where that technique appears - alerts, logs, and investigation timelines included.
Attack Techniques
Attack Technique Interactive
AiTM Phishing
How attackers proxy the login page in real time, stealing session cookies to bypass MFA without the victim ever knowing the login was intercepted.
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Attack Technique Interactive
Credential Theft
LSASS dumps, SAM database access, Kerberoasting, Pass-the-Hash - how attackers extract and reuse credentials without ever cracking passwords in real time.
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Attack Technique Interactive
Kerberos & AD Attacks
Play the six-message Kerberos exchange, then inject Kerberoasting, AS-REP Roasting, Golden and Silver tickets, Pass-the-Ticket, or DCSync and watch exactly where the chain gets poisoned.
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Attack Technique Interactive
Lateral Movement
How attackers move from a compromised workstation to domain controllers, Exchange servers, and CI/CD pipelines - mapped to the foyl SecIntel network.
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Attack Technique Timeline
Ransomware Lifecycle
From initial phishing email to full disk encryption - a step-by-step timeline showing how ransomware operators work, and where defenders can intervene at each phase.
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Attack Technique Interactive
DNS Tunnelling
Attackers smuggle data and C2 traffic inside DNS queries. Type a secret, watch it chunk into subdomain lookups, and see the length, entropy, and volume signals that give it away.
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Attack Technique Interactive
Business Email Compromise
How attackers impersonate executives and vendors to redirect wire transfers. Real email thread walkthrough with red-flag analysis and header inspection.
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Attack Technique 3D Field Lab
Living off the Land
Signed does not mean safe. Classify real command contexts, inspect process lineage, and see how attackers repurpose the tools already installed on a host.
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Attack Technique 3D Simulator
Persistence
Plant scheduled tasks, Run keys, services, and OAuth grants, then advance disruption events to discover exactly which return paths survive.
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Core Concepts
Core Concept Interactive
Zero Trust
Never trust, always verify. Flip the live signals on a single access request - identity, device, location, risk - and watch the policy engine allow, step up, or deny.
NIST 800-207 PEP / PDP
Core Concept Interactive
MFA and Bypass Techniques
How authenticator apps, push MFA, SMS, and passkeys each work - and where each method is vulnerable to AiTM proxying, SIM swapping, and push fatigue.
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Core Concept Visual
C2 Beacons
How command-and-control beacons work, why they blend into normal traffic, and how security teams detect the patterns of a host checking in with an attacker's server.
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Core Concept Interactive
The Cyber Kill Chain
The seven phases of every attack from reconnaissance to actions on objectives - mapped to the IRON CHIMNEY incident with detection opportunities at each phase.
Framework Lockheed Martin
Core Concept Interactive
Reading Security Logs
Windows Event IDs, Sysmon, NGFW flows, and Entra ID sign-in logs - what they contain, what defenders look for, and how each event maps to a MITRE ATT&CK technique.
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