Skills
- OPSEC
- Phishing Infra
- Reverse Proxy
- AiTM
- OAuth & Device Code Abuse
- OAuth
- Token & Session Hijacking
- Consent Grant Abuse
- MFA Bypass & Evasion
- Bot & TLS Evasion
- SWG Bypass Techniques
- Living-Off-User Ops
- End-to-End Attack Chains
Cyberwarfare Labs
Certified Offensive Phishing Operator (OPO) Certificate is awarded to professionals who demonstrate mastery in designing, deploying, and executing structured phishing operations against modern enterprise environments. The certification validates a candidate’s operational capability across phishing infrastructure architecture and OPSEC, authentication abuse and token manipulation, reverse proxy–based Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) tradecraft, MFA downgrade and identity bypass techniques, consent grant manipulation across cloud identity providers, bot detection evasion and TLS fingerprint bypass, Secure Web Gateway (SWG) bypass techniques, and living-off-user execution vectors. Candidates earn the OPO credential by completing structured hands-on labs and successfully passing a practical, scenario-driven examination that evaluates their ability to conduct a realistic phishing campaign from planning through execution.
Capabilities
The holder of an OPO Certificate possesses the capability to:
- Plan and execute end-to-end phishing operations, including reconnaissance, pretext development, delivery strategy design, and infrastructure stealth management.
- Design, deploy, and harden phishing infrastructure using email servers, redirectors, reverse proxies, Evilginx, custom phishlets, and cloud-based serverless platforms.
- Abuse modern authentication mechanisms (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, device code flows) to capture and manipulate tokens, execute consent grant abuse, and compromise enterprise identity providers.
- Perform MFA downgrade and identity evasion techniques, including passkey/FIDO downgrades, Windows Hello abuse, and cross-IdP impersonation scenarios.
- Evade defensive controls by bypassing email security gateways, Secure Web Gateways (SWG), bot detection systems, and TLS fingerprinting mechanisms while implementing anti-analysis measures.
- Chain phishing, authentication abuse, and evasion tradecraft into realistic enterprise attack paths leading to credential access, token theft, privilege escalation, and sustained account compromise.
Next Steps
The OPO certification prepares professionals for roles including: Red Team Operator, Adversary Simulation Specialist, Offensive Security Consultant, Identity & IAM Security Engineer, Cloud Security Engineer & Detection Engineer seeking adversary insight. Additionally, Candidates seeking specialization may continue with:
- Web Red Team Analyst (Web-RTA): This course focuses on Offensive web application tradecraft.
- DevOps Red Team Analyst (DO-RTA): This course focuses on CI/CD and DevOps offensive operations.
- Kubernetes Red Team Analyst (K8s-RTA): This course focuses on Kubernetes cluster exploitation.
Earning Criteria
To earn the Certified Offensive Phishing Operator (OPO) certificate, candidates must:
- Complete all course materials and lab exercises.
- Successfully deploy and operate phishing infrastructure in a controlled lab.
- Demonstrate practical understanding of authentication abuse and evasion techniques.
- Pass the official OPO practical examination.
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