Linkedin Ethical Hacking: Evading Ids, Firewalls, And Honeypots Videos May 2026

She had the blueprint. The firewall bypass. The honeypot signature. The internal logging server’s IP.

She hung up, deleted the burner VM, and went back to her LinkedIn feed. A new notification pinged.

She clicked the video from a burner VM routed through seven countries. The presenter, a man calling himself “Cipher,” had a soothing voice and a slide deck full of topology diagrams. He explained, with clinical precision, how to fragment packets just below the IDS reassembly threshold. How to use SSH tunneling to mask C2 traffic as legitimate devops activity. How to spot a honeypot by its too-perfect “low hanging fruit” data. She had the blueprint

“Who is this?” The voice wasn’t Cipher’s. It was older. Tired.

A long pause. “What do you want?”

Anya didn’t watch for the education. She watched for the tells .

Deep in the comments, buried under “Great share, Anya!” and “Can you DM me your slide deck?”, was a single, seemingly innocuous link to a private webinar: “Evading IDS, Firewalls, and Honeypots: A Red Team Perspective.” The internal logging server’s IP

“Someone who reads LinkedIn comments,” Anya said. “You’ve got a bigger problem than me, though. Your red team’s training material is a red team’s kill chain. You’re teaching attackers exactly how to bypass your own defenses.”