ABOUT


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fungiknight
HANDLE fungiknight
CLASS SOC Analyst
SPECIALIZATION Detection Engineering → Malware Analysis → Malware Development
MAIN WEAPON Telemetry & Detection Logic
PLAYSTYLE Lab Monster — study the opponent, lab the tech, build the counter
CURRENT PHASE 1R — Recovery (Mar-Apr 2026)
TRAINING BUDGET ~45 hrs/month | ~540 hrs/year
METHODOLOGY Sprint/Rest cycles. 3 weeks on, 1 week recovery.

PHILOSOPHY

"Attackers practice their tech. Defenders must practice harder."

"Every attack technique is a fighting game matchup. Study the move, find the telemetry, build the counter."

"If you haven't exercised today, exercise before studying. It's not competing with study time — it's enabling it."

"Logs are the roots. Telemetry is the soil. Detection is the harvest."

CERTIFICATIONS EARNED

SECURITY+
CompTIA
CYSA+
CompTIA
NETWORK+
CompTIA
BTL1
Security Blue Team
PSAA
Practical Security
CCNA
Cisco

TOOLBELT

CategoryTools & Skills
SIEMSplunk, Elastic Stack
DetectionSigma rules, Sysmon, Windows Event Logs
Malware AnalysisREMnux, FlareVM, x64dbg, Binary Ninja (learning)
ProgrammingC (learning), PowerShell, Python basics
FrameworksMITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain
NetworkingWireshark, tcpdump, Cisco IOS

THE JOURNEY

2026 — PRESENT

SOC Analyst. Building toward detection engineering and malware development. Currently in Phase 1R: finishing TCM PMAT, starting C programming foundations, preparing for CDSA.

2026-2028 — THE PLAN

3.5-4 year malware development program at ~45 hrs/month. Assembly, shellcode, Win32 API, process injection, C2 frameworks. Building a career, not speedrunning a course.

ABOUT THIS SITE

Adversary Arcade is a training ground for defenders. It treats cybersecurity like a fighting game — every attacker has a move list, every move leaves telemetry, and every defender needs to lab the matchup.

The site serves as a public research notebook, a progress tracker, a malware encyclopedia, and a detection engineering portfolio. It's built with static HTML/CSS/JS in the spirit of the old internet.

Study the opponent. Lab the tech. Build better defenses.


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ADVERSARY ARCADE — fungiknight

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