general

[limber arch]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-success-epic-embed-fail-gif-21239189

[next pumice]

Good evening ladies and Gentlemen @everyone
I would like to announce that I have managed to complete starting point tier 1. This might not be something big for others but for me it was a great learning experience.
There are only two times I cheated ( I regret it )

1. In responder machine ( I wasn't able to complete the last task so i had to read a walkthrough )
   And
2. In machine name three ( task 4 and task 6 ).
   I know I shouldn't have but I'll work on my weaknesses and learn from them.
   Next step is to move onto tier 2.
   This is just me announcing my journey.
   Please help me out and guide me as I keep on learning.

[limber arch]

Bro attempted to @everyone in a server this big lmao

[next pumice]

I am new to discord sir

[green kite]

no need to at everyone 🙂 but congrats

[next pumice]

Trust me the first day on discord was hilarious af ( I was asking how to chat on discord in general while chatting )

[green kite]

[crude lynx]

i remember that, but still, congrats

[green kite]

What’s your next step/goal?

[next pumice]

It's @crude lynx how are you bro

[crude lynx]

good, how about you

[next pumice]

@green kite I was occupied with college exams but now I am thinking of starting tier 2 and cisco ethcal hacker course on netcad

[green kite]

Cool !

[next pumice]

@crude lynx bro the exams almost killed me and I kinda went into hibernation ( I slept for atleast 12 hours straight after my exams yeasterday )

[crude lynx]

i think i need to start cracking on medium boxes

[next pumice]

@crude lynx I'll catch up to you soon bro

[green kite]

Do Media. That’s a fun one

[next pumice]

@crude lynx what you have been upto bro

@agile thunder where are you bro

[crude lynx]

idk, just doing boxes and academy lately, now i'm getting through some of the fundamentals

[crude lynx]

its a windows box 😢

[green kite]

Yes

[crude lynx]

i only rooted one windows box

[next pumice]

@crude lynx bro have you ever wondered like why learning on THM feels different than HTB
Idk why I feel like completing even one HTB box teaches more than One THM room

@crude lynx ( I am scared of powershell )

[green kite]

It doesn’t have AD, so if you worry about that, don’t 😄

[crude lynx]

yes, definitely different, htb pushes you to understand protocols you've never seen before

[next pumice]

Indeed it does pushes...pushes of the cliff

[crude lynx]

me also scared

[crude lynx]

actually, the only windows box i did was an ad one (it's forest), i was having a hard time even following ippsec and 0xdf

[green kite]

Ah yeah! But you’ll get there 💪 you’re doing academy

[boreal pike]

Ladies and gentleman... They have in fact, hacked the box...

[green kite]

Oh nooo

[boreal pike]

[green kite]

I just rooted Media

[next pumice]

@boreal pike whatttt

[boreal pike]

https://tenor.com/view/lets-go-mediamarkt-mm-gif-27212680

[next pumice]

@boreal pike what's happening in shibuyaa

[boreal pike]

The box, it got hacked.

[boreal pike]

It exploded after I visited.

[green kite]

https://tenor.com/view/shaking-dog-white-dog-scared-meme-gif-23585947

[boreal pike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3uVwxAoUdo

[next pumice]

We need the honoured to one for this ( someone contact the HQ asap )

Well. It was great talking to all of you my friends, I must bid farewell for today. I will return once I have completed tier 2 .

[boreal pike]

https://tenor.com/view/coco-goodbye-bye-bye-bye-ongezellig-gif-16325302711456427166

[green kite]

Take care. See you soon

[green kite]

Forest was fun

[hollow bone]

When is the next machine of season 9?

[boreal pike]

https://tenor.com/view/bert-kreischer-i-am-the-machine-im-the-man-gif-16355416

[limber arch]

Every Saturday at 3 PM EST

[hollow bone]

Identity Access Management the machine? What's that?

[boreal pike]

It means that I get access to manage your identity...

You're a random kid on the other side of the solar system now.

[hollow bone]

[boreal pike]

[hollow bone]

How do people get "respect" on HTB? Does it even make a difference?

apart from aura farming*

eh what?

[green kite]

No. Go to bed son

[vivid flower]

Someone mentioned Arch Linux

[boreal pike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz8A_S_ISFs

[frail turtle]

I'm gonna try anyway...and probably not learn as well

these guys in a detective show

they kill a professor in the most genius way possible

an automatic gun that fires when a button is pressed.

but then they go and get buddy buddy and chatty with the detective

and then the detective suspects them, goes downhill from there

[agile thunder]

yoooo

im lowk trying to make a challenge for htb

[frail turtle]

oh yeah I forgot i got myself a 6600 XT today

[agile thunder]

nice

[frail turtle]

less money on the electric bill, more performance, here I come

[graceful pendant]

holy fucking rabbit hole i went down on expressway

couldnt have ben more lost at one point

[agile thunder]

same xD

[frail turtle]

My family and I were on a road trip one day

[graceful pendant]

i mean the new box btw

[frail turtle]

and we took the wrong exit and landed ona highway that left us driving for 40 miles before we got off.

[graceful pendant]

but yeah go on

[frail turtle]

nvm

i mean well that was it lol

[graceful pendant]

i once used an older builtin navigation system when driving around in switzerland and it send me like 4 hours in the wrong direction

[solemn lichen]

omg that show

throwback

[next pumice]

Bro casually mentioned something so awesome 🔥

[heady sage]

What in the goddamn

[next pumice]

@heady sage idk what this is but damnnnn

[heady sage]

It’s Python malware but uhhh very horribly written

[astral turret]

what sherlocks you guys doing for htb holme

[next pumice]

@agile thunder bro I have finally managed to complete tier 1 and moving into tier 2. I'll text back once I am done with it.

[next pumice]

@agile thunder here read this

Gotta go

[agile thunder]

w

[gaunt gale]

Ya technically python can be used for malware which is cool

You can use python for like anything

[proud moth]

the blacklisted IP array lmaooooooo

jesus

sounds like something my loser brain would come up with

[hoary nebula]

well well well

[devout sail]

https://tenor.com/view/well-in-that-case-yo-mama-well-case-gif-14405034452477075435

[hoary nebula]

dad humor

[hoary nebula]

Has the new season started yet?

[agile thunder]

yeah started yesterday

wait why dont i hav my bronze role 😭

[lilac cipher]

nope

[slender star]

hello!

[devout sail]

Cuz u took too long

See i already finished season 9

Got holo

[devout sail]

You just have to pivot to the next machine from the first one

[agile thunder]

ahh yes

[devout sail]

Go get them

[hoary nebula]

okay, i do the box tomorow

[devout sail]

You won't last 5 seconds

In next machine

[hoary nebula]

damn bruh

what machine is it

linux ez?

[devout sail]

Yeah it's alright machine

[hoary nebula]

aaaaaaaaaaaaight

[devout sail]

User part is atleast

[meager kernel]

That's what she said?

[agile thunder]

gng do machines have pronouns yet

like

ze/zim

[lime trout]

Bruh

[soft fern]

Not sure about machines, but there is bin/bash

[hoary nebula]

hihihihih

[hoary nebula]

bin/bash

hihihi

[soft fern]

Hi

[hoary nebula]

please dont ping me, im shy

[soft fern]

Real asf

[agile thunder]

Did yall see the AI-generated minister for AI in Albania

[stone marsh]

Is Proton Mail secure for a throwaway email address?

[alpine pumice]

Email in itself isn't really secure

[stone marsh]

True, but proton does utilise end to end encryption, so it's at least a few steps up

[agile thunder]

You can create a really temporary email address at https://webhook.site if you only need it for like an account sign up and verification code or something

[alpine pumice]

That doesn't really have anything to do with it being secure though

[stone marsh]

Elaborate

[devout sail]

@hoary nebula hi shy, I'm sado

[stone marsh]

Ooh that's a cool site, cheers!

[alpine pumice]

Salt Typhoon

[devout sail]

Never used it as temp email lol
Only for testing random req

[agile thunder]

No problem lol, I wouldn’t count on its security though and pretty sure you lose access to the email after a day or something and you get a new one, so don’t use it for things you might need to get emails from later lol

[devout sail]

There's some open mail service too iirc
Anyone can access just by using username

[agile thunder]

Ooh that sounds cool

[devout sail]

Can't remember what it was called

[proud moth]

proton is secure as long as you send emails to other proton users, or if you setup GPG encryption

any other method is insecure

needless to say this is true unless one of the account is compromised

as they are the only ones receiving decrypted data in E2E

[ebon marsh]

hyyyy

[frail turtle]

I have to stop buying things

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-meme-i-need-it-i-don’t-need-it-i-definitely-don’t-need-it-thirsty-gif-17101453146721253330

[azure nacelle]

Hi everyone,

I am Gaurav. I completed my graduation last year in cybersecurity. I am looking out for jobs for system admin role or Tech support or Cyber fresher roles where I can learn and practice and start my life. I have lot of responsibilities on my shoulder so I work part time in warehouse to afford my survival and my parent in my home country. Currently, I am planning to resume with practice of Pen 200 labs on offsec and hack the box. Anyone who is interested can team up or anyone who wants I can team up.

Looking forward to learning and sharing with all of you!

Please you can dm me if you want me to join any of you and start practicing!

[heady sage]

My honest reaction

[terse dirge]

New wazuh release dropped

[lime trout]

hi chat

[terse dirge]

wassup emma

[lime trout]

nm nm, u?

[terse dirge]

same

[flint copper]

my coworkers all said it's really good

the new one

[terse dirge]

been playing a bunch of Pokemon Shining Pearl recently 👀

[flint copper]

haven't played myself, wondering if it lives up to the standard bl2 set

[opal smelt]

i just bought the system shock/moros protocol bundle

[alpine pumice]

how come you guys didn't tell me about exegol sooner

[lilac cipher]

Because it went paid

[frail turtle]

[balmy basalt]

Really? Wow. I wasn't expecting that.

[lilac cipher]

Iirc free ones only get updates once a year or twice now

Which defeats its purpose really

Better to have an install script for your vm lol

[terse dirge]

what's exegol?

[rose onyx]

Docker kali

[terse dirge]

I was lookin at it and I was like "isn't kali free?"

[rose onyx]

It's a setup wrapper, adds some light features like vpn

[terse dirge]

but why use it instead of a kali VM with shared folders and other virtualbox additions?

[frail turtle]

does the shellcode you have on your profile run /bin/sh?

[rapid swallow]

quick question, what's harder OSWA by Offsec or BSCP by Burp Suite

[terse dirge]

exogol looks like a cash grab ngl

[rose onyx]

Fresh environment per engagement, fast to spin up.

[frail turtle]

I dont see the point of exegol honestly

[terse dirge]

just make a new kali VM or set up your workspace properly to output data to a shared folder in virtualbox so you don't need to wipe your environment?

[frail turtle]

I mean maybe if you're rich you should use it though

i mean why not. wtvr to get the job done faster ig

[rose onyx]

Limits cross contamination? I dunno man, I don't use it. My VM for HTB has been the same VM for the past 3 years.

[terse dirge]

also doesn't kali have vagrant images/boxes or whatever they're called?

[alpine pumice]

why use arch when there's kali?

[balmy basalt]

Yes.

[terse dirge]

Idk. I use void btw

[balmy basalt]

That's crazy. They didn't always have a business model did they?

[rose onyx]

We have Linux at home.
-# Linux at home: WSL

[frail turtle]

what if someone doesn't like XFCE?

ah well there's variants of kali too ;c

[lilac cipher]

Nope not afaik

[frail turtle]

I have a motherboard that will brick your CPU if you put one in it

Never ever trust ASUS for anything

[keen sage]

I'm having a hard time finding out where to start. I need a good pep talk like bad. Help!!??

[rose onyx]

Asus has been my goto for years. MSI and gigabyte have given me too much hell

[alpine pumice]

yup. asus gang rise up.

[west lynx]

Get Started with the HTB Beginners Bible: https://www.hackthebox.com/blog/learn-to-hack-beginners-bible

[rose onyx]

@keen sage ^^^

[keen sage]

Thank you vm Gubarz

[heady sage]

Nobody will babysit you

[frail turtle]

dont ever ride a motorcycle

....in the west

it's just not worth it

get into an accident and you got back pain for years, at minimum

[keen sage]

@frail turtle forever

[limber arch]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-success-epic-embed-fail-gif-21239189

[maiden anvil]

I'm in an extremely esoteric situation where it's possible I might need to consider fabricating my own PCBs

does anybody have any tips on equipment needed?

I know I'll need a CNC router, that weird UV solvent, and some solder trap thing but idk what else

[worthy cargo]

#hardware-iot-ics check here. General is not a good place for serious help

[maiden anvil]

thanks homie 👍

[worthy cargo]

Welcome bud

[sage sail]

anyone can help me partition my disk I'm trying to have a dual boot windows linux but I'm a bit confuse if what I need to do to my disk

[keen dawn]

for the HTB CTF platform, is there a way to see which members of your team have signed up for a particular CTF?

[supple rain]

What payment options cube are there besides card?

[balmy basalt]

https://help.hackthebox.com/en/articles/5185500-what-payment-options-are-supported-and-do-you-store-payment-details

[cloud osprey]

do yall take meme coins

[supple rain]

It turns out that I can’t create a link or QR code so that someone can pay the bill.

[dusky jacinth]

I do!

Put them straight into my mouth please

[lilac cipher]

Bro don't you just pentest PoS systems what

Bro needs a crabberry

[silver forge]

everyone tests piece of shit systems

[lilac cipher]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1143580498568953997.webp?size=32&animated=true

6am here

Bout to sleep as well

I frogor to slep 💀

[maiden anvil]

hey bro

im reading a book

and it told me that we dont ever truly die

because we're never truly born

our true self is immortal

even tho our physical bodies are not

its pretty good ngl

[lilac cipher]

Sounds deep

[maiden anvil]

actually thats just a guy talking in the book

[silver forge]

https://tenor.com/view/splash-puddle-shock-shocked-deeper-gif-6779150623423967131

[maiden anvil]

but the guy is actually fighting in a war

against his cousins and uncles

[lilac cipher]

How can a man be sleep deprived if we're never truly born 😩

[dusky jacinth]

Real

[terse dirge]

Crazy? I was crazy once

They locked me in a room

A rubber room

A rubber room with rats

And the rats made me crazy

[languid helm]

Hello general

Which platoon do you command

[hollow bone]

[scenic maple]

and you are a guy talking in discord 😩

[maiden anvil]

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/cats-kitty-hello-cute-cat-gif-12376270795471334165

[languid helm]

How have you been?

[scenic maple]

doing well

you?

[patent elbow]

alcohol

[languid helm]

I'm well too, thanks for asking

What are you doing these days?

[eager turret]

Any vibe coders

[eager turret]

Golammmm

[alpine pumice]

claude: clean this code up

[devout sail]

homeless ctf happeing

[scenic maple]

react

[devout sail]

hehe AI creating jobs

[scenic maple]

THEJUS0x06

[alpine pumice]

how'd you find my profile

[scenic maple]

[devout sail]

nuts

[scenic maple]

super nuts

[eager turret]

Peak unemployment

[eager turret]

Your tag
Lol

[green kite]

hello chat

[somber seal]

hello

[green kite]

how are you

[muted olive]

"Father and son"

[hearty frigate]

I am working on a challenge, can i pls dm someone ?
It is not from HTB

[terse dirge]

Is it for an active CTF?

[hearty frigate]

Nope it is B2R machine

[devout sail]

B2R?

[hearty frigate]

Boot2Root

Like HTB but you get the iso

[terse dirge]

Ask in that discord then

[devout sail]

[hearty frigate]

Alright

[devout sail]

Bobs battlebit community

[hearty frigate]

Anyways would you have good SSTI resources. One of my payloads dosent seem to work

[somber seal]

.....

[hearty frigate]

I am pretty sure it is for Jinja2 but

[devout sail]

that flowchart always worked for me

[terse dirge]

Battle bit is based, I wish that it got newer content more frequently

[terse dirge]

Yes right here: https://www.google.com/

[devout sail]

${{<%[%'"}}%\.

[hearty frigate]

Crazy

[terse dirge]

I was crazy once

They locked me in a room

A rubber room

[hearty frigate]

😭

[terse dirge]

A rubber room with rats

And the rats made me crazy

Crazy?

[devout sail]

https://tenor.com/view/crazy-i-was-crazy-once-gif-13785912751198548358

[patent elbow]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-sphere-las-vegas-orange-cat-spinning-gif-14402153341257920008

[rapid swallow]

quick question, what's harder OSWA or BSCP by Burp Suite

[stone marsh]

Oswa because you have to deal with the offsec material

[hoary nebula]

[crisp kernel]

sooo... I've understood, and decided that AI can't be ignored anymore. I've asked the ChatGPT service the three questions, important questions for my pentesting career planning:

1. Can AI replace ethical hackers?
2. How pentesters can use AI to help them in their work?
3. Can AI analyze output of the LinPeas.sh script?

full article: [ https://project-wraithstar.blogspot.com/2025/09/ai-ethical-hacking.html ].

constructive comments welcome. 🙂

[terse dirge]

Clankers will never be good enough to replace real people in such a complex field

[crisp kernel]

thankfully!

[terse dirge]

Stuff like linpeas doesn't account for custom patches, it just spits out based on a criteria and doesn't actually test or look for custom patches

Also you shouldn't use AI for helping yourself during a pentest, you're probably violating your contract or NDA by doing so

[crisp kernel]

But this can be included in contract. 🙂

[terse dirge]

Ask a lawyer

[crisp kernel]

yes.

''Recent HTB competitions show AI agents and LLM-assisted operations can rival top human teams.

This isn’t a threat to learners;
it’s a head start'.

-- Gerasimos Marketos, Chief Product Officer at Hack The Box.'

[terse dirge]

That's HTB not real life bud

[crisp kernel]

good point.

[scenic maple]

we must write bad code to sabotage AIs code writing abilities

🫡

[crisp kernel]

hehe.

🙂

[terse dirge]

If you use chatgpt in a real pentest you're probably going to get sued.

[meager kernel]

Stop the clankers!

[terse dirge]

Maybe arrested too.

[crisp kernel]

thanks for info! 🙂

[scenic maple]

thats why you use local ai

[terse dirge]

You might as well just do it yourself then instead of having a clanker locally set up

[scenic maple]

😩 fr

[terse dirge]

A decent amount of the time gpt or Gemini is hallucinating and pulls info from thin air in my experience with a bunch of stuff I work with

[scenic maple]

ye just good for writimg simple scripts and analyzing log files

i know a guy who just abuses it on sherelocks

vibe blue teamer (he is also employed as a blue teamer)

[terse dirge]

I've only had positive experience with elastic search's anomaly detection AI crap.

[terse dirge]

Damn, the bar must be low for that position

[scenic maple]

in simple terms he greps and pastes

i mean he is htb guru tho

[signal mica]

👁️

[austere sigil]

👀

[hoary nebula]

clanker

[heady sage]

This is a real panel

[austere sigil]

Batman was afk for 2 weeks. Please give him time to heal his wounds. Thanks for your understanding!

[heady sage]

The last time Bats did that he had to deal with some guy taking it wayyyyy tooo far after a Spaniard broke his back

[austere sigil]

But this time Batman had to climb the Mount of Moses

[late nexus]

what is the fastest way to be moving in rank , machines or challenges ?

[austere sigil]

both

[late nexus]

sherlocks dont do shit

right ?

[heady sage]

Uhh nope

[austere sigil]

you gain skill

[late nexus]

its kinda of a realworld a bit

[austere sigil]

not just internet points

[heady sage]

Maybe the real Sherlocks were the friends we made along the way

[green kite]

we can make friends here?

oh

[austere sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/special-ed-special-gif-14524557650897979460

[green kite]

wanna be my friend?

https://tenor.com/view/dead-my-honest-reaction-damn-skull-skeleton-gif-15885937969029652188

[carmine pecan]

The only prerequisite to have friends, is to be a friend.

🙂

[frail turtle]

Fuck the cold actually woke me up

[green kite]

good thing it was not too cold

[carmine pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/code-gif-17835951585747046033

[green kite]

or you'd not have woken up

[carmine pecan]

Truen't

[frail turtle]

[carmine pecan]

Hallicon you should stop sleeping naked

With no covers

With the fan on

and the AC on too

[hoary nebula]

wdym, thats the best way

[carmine pecan]

And Windows open

[green kite]

just order some HTB jammies

[frail turtle]

I dont commando

[carmine pecan]

Age reveal right there mate

[frail turtle]

How

[carmine pecan]

Yet*

[hoary nebula]

that dog is still sleeping

[carmine pecan]

That's a big cat

[hoary nebula]

embed fail

[crisp kernel]

indeed.

[carmine pecan]

indeed backwars

deed in

[crisp kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/bills-ugh-gif-9811803164280522639

[frail turtle]

I was continuing to learn css last night

It's evil because this has to be the most boring part of learning webdev

[carmine pecan]

CSS boring?

Bro

[frail turtle]

My body has been trying to avoid it for 2 weeks now

[hoary nebula]

its true

[carmine pecan]

No way you think CSS is more boring than HTML?

[austere sigil]

Imagine no fault tolerance in CSS

[frail turtle]

HTML is nice and smooth like butter.

[carmine pecan]

There's no way

[frail turtle]

Short and quick.

[hoary nebula]

JS

[carmine pecan]

Try Shaders then

you will love shaders

C'mon, draw a square that reflects incoming light 🙂

[austere sigil]

HTML does what HTML needs to do and does it well

[frail turtle]

No MoRE BoXEs

[carmine pecan]

It's not a box

[frail turtle]

Pls

[carmine pecan]

it's a square

4 lines

You can also draw a squircle

If you are that good with curve parametrization

[frail turtle]

I will complete the boring CSS i swear it. Just another 10.5 hours left on the topic

[carmine pecan]

Good thing you are only Austistic

[frail turtle]

[carmine pecan]

If you were Autistic with ADHD

You could be sure there would be no CSS studying

[frail turtle]

Ah yes just learn webdev with no CSS. Perfect. Life is complete.

[carmine pecan]

Why learn webdev btw?

In 2025?

And using standard methods of studying?

in 2025?

[frail turtle]

The demand is high

And the supply is low

[carmine pecan]

I want the chi square of that statement

or no believe

[carmine pecan]

Oh

Good

[frail turtle]

Wait theres just a bit more

[carmine pecan]

Demand for Excellent Web Developers

Good luck, for "Excellent" is a moving goal post

[frail turtle]

Ye i have a plan for that

[carmine pecan]

You have a plan for a moving goal post

[frail turtle]

An insane....plan not something normal people do

[carmine pecan]

Ok I see

Is it a Cascading Style Plan?

[frail turtle]

Yes actually o.O

[hoary nebula]

la genta esta muertos

[carmine pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/young-sheldon-wolf-pack-gif-1318621075966529470

[hoary nebula]

sheldon is the goat

[carmine pecan]

Wrong gif

but whatever sheldon is goat

[hoary nebula]

bazinga

[somber seal]

Hello i made a team for beginners my team name is ClaudeGenerated

[hoary nebula]

sheldon is not a virgin, lmao L take

he even has 2 kids

[carmine pecan]

I mean, he was at this age

[frail turtle]

I should go back to hacking again.

[carmine pecan]

This age

[carmine pecan]

XSS >>>> CSS

[frail turtle]

Exactly

[carmine pecan]

eX(ss)actly

[somber seal]

anyone?

[hoary nebula]

You are anyone

[carmine pecan]

Yes

Your team is cool

But is it rad

?

!

!

[frail turtle]

There is a channel for advertising recruitment i think

[hoary nebula]

marud-khazad

[carmine pecan]

This is general

it's only for advertising slow decent (actually ascent) into insanity

[frail turtle]

Why the name ClaudeGenerated?

[carmine pecan]

''Recent HTB competitions show AI agents and LLM-assisted operations can rival top human teams.

This isn’t a threat to learners;
it’s a head start'.

-- Gerasimos Marketos, Chief Product Officer at Hack The Box.'

[somber seal]

because i am a often claude user

[frail turtle]

I see

Honestly he has a good point.

[carmine pecan]

Hey Hallicon

did you know that people been studying CSS for decades now

and... don't want to frighten you or anything but

Every single one, who studied CSS, has died

...

Just for your information bro

I care about you

[hoary nebula]

Delete CSS

[somber seal]

the day open ai came all came to hell

[frail turtle]

If I die I will come back to haunt people

[carmine pecan]

You mean ClosedAsfAI

[carmine pecan]

Haunt me

I sleep naked always

[frail turtle]

I will haunt you at work

[carmine pecan]

I do home office

And I often work like I sleep

Naked

Clothes are for meetings and eating

[frail turtle]

On second though Im gonna haunt Yannick

[carmine pecan]

Oh

[somber seal]

Every platform wants you to join their 'Annual Subscription'

[hoary nebula]

meow

[frail turtle]

Theres was something specific i wanted to learn though its about websockets

There was this site at one point i remember you had to brute force the password to get it in its like a haha joke hacking website.

But that was like something unique. Different protocol and all.

The soccer box uses a websocket i remember and you can use SQLmap to attack it.

Was probably the most eye opening experience i had in HTB

Or one of the most

Rather

[carmine pecan]

Dude websockets are amazing

[frail turtle]

Why tho? Are websockets that terrible?

[carmine pecan]

It's a way to do event-driven that's bidirectional

Websockets aren't used enough

In college I made this RPG tabletop helper, for the game master (usually me)

That used and abused Websockets

[frail turtle]

O.o

[carmine pecan]

Lost the code though

But yeah, they are underappreciated and underrated

[frail turtle]

Some of my plans involve replacing python and go for backend as well but thats another topic for another time

[carmine pecan]

based asf

python for backend is so copium

[warped plank]

Yooo which TTRPGs you run?

[carmine pecan]

It was D&D only, cringe I know

[warped plank]

Nahh I love D&D, nowadays I prefer Daggerheart though

[carmine pecan]

I will mostly definetly take notes of that

I've been trying to get back in TTRPG

[warped plank]

I was literally running a Daggerheart session for my campaign last night

[carmine pecan]

Damn, and I was stuck on trafic

Congrats I guess

Oh no

No congrats

[warped plank]

@rustic carbon that's bannable btw

[hoary nebula]

what is the best way to type in a pdf document?

[warped plank]

Yeah I know, just saying don't actually do it

[heady sage]

https://tenor.com/view/zero-two-yes-anime-zero-two-anime-anime-girl-gif-2704573795378408610

@warped plank

[warped plank]

[heady sage]

https://tenor.com/view/i-know-what-you-are-boykisser-ominous-stare-gif-1854943194524266546

@warped plank

[warped plank]

https://tenor.com/view/-gif-4331350

[graceful pendant]

I get spammed 40 times a day by the same scam call center and I’m really debating spinning up an infected VM

They want to connect to me via any desk or connect wise and claim to be from PayPal

Like it’s literally 30+ calls a day from different VOIP numbers

So I have to change my number that I’ve hard for 20+ years ?

Don’t think so

[flint copper]

so whoever leaked his data?

[supple plume]

hi

[rustic carbon]

hi

[thin peak]

hi

[supple plume]

how is it going

[rustic carbon]

everything is well what about you

[supple plume]

I'm building cool stuff

[rustic carbon]

what are you building

[graceful pendant]

I own a company and have the number in my email signature. Probably I’m to blame for this but still. I’m in a GDPR governed country and what they are doing is unlawful, (reaching out alone let alone scamming money from poor old people)

[rustic carbon]

funny

[flint copper]

oooh i see

[supple plume]

this

[rustic carbon]

maybe if you can search somewhat

[graceful pendant]

Bro the amount of numbers it is is insane

It’s 30+ different numbers a day

[graceful pendant]

All different country codes

[supple plume]

a terminal emulator with python to automatize stuff

so I will finally get first blood

autocompletion, session storage, scanning on background, etc

[rustic carbon]

is this for terminal to make your work faster

[supple plume]

only to pwn htb machines

yeah

[rustic carbon]

can we use it

because its too useful

[supple plume]

well maybe I make it opensource at some point

[rustic carbon]

its great

[supple plume]

haha

[rustic carbon]

sorry didn't get it

[supple plume]

it is python so it will be easy to see what it does

[rustic carbon]

it was a joke or what it was

[supple plume]

suggested that I would put malware on my stuff

and I will

but only for pwingn boxes

[rustic carbon]

but before running we have to study it that what is written inside the script

[supple plume]

it will be able to connect via netcat and run the same terminal remotely on ssh

run linpeas

make xss servers, attack chains

all kinds of crazy shit

yeah last blood pissed me of so bad

[graceful pendant]

These mf blood before my nmap finishes

[rustic carbon]

what are you talking about which blood and who is getting blood

[supple plume]

I got to spawn the machine when it already had first blood

[rustic carbon]

is this about challenging someone

[graceful pendant]

Brother what

[supple plume]

no, first blood is a little badge that htb gives to the first player that gets the flag of a new machine

[warped plank]

I mean, if you take a look at how they do things half the time it's just a script that immediately spits out flags if it gets them

[cloud osprey]

the only blood i got, i missed the release day, then checked out the box on day 2 and saw nobody had rooted it, so I went in and got it

[rustic carbon]

on hackthebox what type of competition is this and what is in the competition

[supple plume]

you could read this https://help.hackthebox.com/en/articles/5185158-introduction-to-hack-the-box

[warped plank]

It's about the lab boxes

[graceful pendant]

I know there’s linpeas, and winpeas but is there macpeas?

[supple plume]

I think linpeas works on macOs

[graceful pendant]

Cus unix or what

TIL

[supple plume]

yeah

[graceful pendant]

I vibe coded a kali Linux bootstrapper for freshly installed VMs

Would love some feedback on it

[supple plume]

mmm

ok

[graceful pendant]

Sending in DMs

[devout sail]

andpeas

[supple plume]

I really want sorcery to go retired so I can understand more about this machine

[proud moth]

getting stuck like a mf on offshore, i'm almost 75% done

but now i have no clue

[stone marsh]

I let a company know about a vuln I accidentally stumbled upon and they just responded "already aware, thanks".

[solemn flax]

Hey
I want to participate in a CTF but I dont have a team so can I participate in ctf?

[supple plume]

sometimes they don't even care

[stone marsh]

Yeah, hate that part about security. But it was a pretty blatant LFI, so figured I should at least send them a message.

[supple plume]

unless you are working for them or doing bbh I recommend just stop using their services if you are

I've been there myself

cybersec is usually not appreciated by smaller companies, and it is ilegal in many countries to even spot vulns as they can claim you were trying to find it

even if you report it to them

[stone marsh]

In the UK it is a bit of a grey area, assuming I dont actively test or abuse an issue I am legally okay, but yeah, gonna have to just tie my hands behind my back and try to not notice anything else.

[signal mica]

Have u solved timesync error in docker? How did it furn out

[supple plume]

I lost my docker instance and I got into building a tool so I will go back to that in the future

[supple plume]

@signal mica

[hoary nebula]

Azomaxie

[sharp latch]

Hello, do you know if it is possible to unsign for an upcoming ctf to resign with another team ?

[signal mica]

Right u already told me i forgor

[signal mica]

What we doin on this monday yannick

[hoary nebula]

The new box

[signal mica]

I went grocery shopping so now im exhausted for 2 weeks

[supple plume]

the new box is lame

[hoary nebula]

I just came home from grocery shopping

[supple plume]

I'm going to grocery shopping in 2 hours

xd

[signal mica]

We are consumers

I bought a corona beer after 6 years or so

I wonder if they changed it

[hoary nebula]

hopefully also the lime

[signal mica]

Forgot corona is all about that

I do have lemons

[supple plume]

xd

[hoary nebula]

no, lime not lemons hehe

[signal mica]

Family

[hoary nebula]

"vin diesel gif"

[signal mica]

You lost embed perms?

[supple plume]

what is embed perms

[hoary nebula]

I lost my embed

no more silver rank

[signal mica]

Those min requirements so you can send gifs links etc

[supple plume]

oh

[hoary nebula]

skid -> hacker, does that take long?

[signal mica]

No

[supple plume]

skid = noob ?

I navigated the dictionaries today and I realized I don't know nothing anymore

english is not my first language

[hoary nebula]

noob -> skid -> hacker -> pro hacker -> elite hacker -> guru -> omni

[dusky jacinth]

Don’t worry

[supple plume]

noob -> pro hacker took me 5 weeks

but spending my whole 5 weeks full time everyday

[dusky jacinth]

Academy only >>

[supple plume]

full time = at least 8 to 10 hours a day

[dusky jacinth]

You got 8-10 hours a day just to do HTB?

Damn

[supple plume]

I didn't hack anything before

[heady sage]

Applaud for you

[supple plume]

I am unemployed

I lost my job and I don't get hired

[heady sage]

You’ve earned my respect

@supple plume

[supple plume]

thanks

[signal mica]

What the?

[supple plume]

yeah I was a software developer

I was making tripple of what people make avg in my country

last year

this year I sent 1000 resumes

nobody wanted me

so I sayd fuck it

I'm going to become a hacker

[signal mica]

But you do have savings and r jus chilling and learning/advancing in other fields?

Thats more or less my strat

[heady sage]

Gang shit

[supple plume]

my family have a small appartment where I can live and I have still a client that ripps me off as a freelancer for a small things

[signal mica]

Nice

Keep going fam, follow your heart

[proud moth]

oh nice you have a family

when i dropped out of college my parents refused to help me in anyway i borrowed money from my uncle to study HTB

i wish they would die

[signal mica]

It make you strong fam

[proud moth]

i'm not gonna visit those motherfuckers even on the death bed

[signal mica]

This is so bizarre to me how were boomers so brainwashed

Why do they believe college is like "win"

Its really really not

[proud moth]

yeah it's crazy how much of a dumbfuck they are

[signal mica]

Dont bother hating them, rather show them you took your own path and succeeded

@versed wadi you have been afk in retired voice channel for 3 days, ????!?!??!

[crude lynx]

That’s the mentality

I was a web dev before

Now I’m also unemployed

[proud moth]

i'm employed and instead of being a broke depressed i am just depressed

nothing important changes really

[crude lynx]

Do you work in cyber?

[proud moth]

yeah in pentesting

[crude lynx]

I guess working and playing boxes must be different things

[proud moth]

well actually it's pretty similar, it's just that you have a more defined scope and things you can and cannot do

[signal mica]

Davincio how often do you have a scope thats like "hell yeah we can have fun here"

[red ore]

I’m curious how often are you simulating attacks where you have to be stealthy vs just testing systems where you’re allowed to be pretty loud?

[proud moth]

sometimes they setup staging systems equivalent to production systems and we can attack the staging system however we like

[crude lynx]

But in real life, you don’t actually have a path to win flags

[proud moth]

doesn't matter that much, i'm still gonna treat the system exactly like an hack the box IP

[red ore]

Basically “how quickly can I get root”?

[proud moth]

not how quickly, but in "how many ways"

which is the same thing i do on hack the box

[crude lynx]

Damn, that’s the mentality I must learn

[proud moth]

it's nice to compare your approach to the approach of other people sometimes, even if the machine has no uninteded way you still learn about multiple ways of enumeration

so asking in how many ways you would have found something is a nice thing to do

[signal mica]

How efficient are you timewise? How far have you taken the automation of the methodologies applied?

[scenic maple]

sometimes you follow your heart and it leads you to places

[crude lynx]

Then I don’t get it, why’d you get depressed from working?

[signal mica]

I have 0 automated i do everything raw

[proud moth]

my automation functions are open source and here: https://github.com/Dirac231/PentestVault/blob/main/FUNCTIONS.sh

same for notes

[scenic maple]

• student debt that they probably cant pay in the next decade

[signal mica]

3k lines NICE

[proud moth]

i automate everything I can when it comes to enumeration, not too much but a little bit, exploitation is all manual though

except for some cases

[scenic maple]

and then mortage insurances and other costs as well

[crude lynx]

Damn

[proud moth]

for external enum and OSINT i try to automate as much as possible but that's just because a matter of chaining togheter domain sources and DNS stuff and shi

[scenic maple]

bro going against linpeas 💪

[signal mica]

I like the name PentestVault, my shit is just named root and description is "how to get root"

[proud moth]

Guru for a reason, simplicity and everything manual

[scenic maple]

but how do you get user

[exotic pendant]

[proud moth]

has also a "user" folder called "how to get user" probably

[scenic maple]

has to be

[exotic pendant]

Ready for Friday

[proud moth]

The master is ready

[exotic pendant]

Next weekend I got offensive Ai con

[hoary nebula]

Doing active challenges gives very low % for progress towards hacker

[boreal pike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mghhLqu31cQ&list=RDmghhLqu31cQ&start_radio=1

Just gonna show my age.

[hoary nebula]

you are my age

that was peak memes

[exotic pendant]

Idk this song and in old

[signal mica]

Hmm i think i got hacker with all active easy+med and a few challs?

[boreal pike]

🫡

I'm a firing mah lazer!

[hoary nebula]

yeah im at 50% rn towards hacker, just gonna do the active machines for now

[red ore]

All medium and easy almost got me to pro hacker last year, then I got a new job that had a massive learning curve for enterprise neteng and stopped and only restarted again

[boreal pike]

"All your box are belong to us."

[exotic pendant]

Last 10% is the worst part

Would work on the last few boxes and then a new one releases

[proud moth]

yeah that's terrible

[signal mica]

Round 2

[proud moth]

i got close to elite when i was grinding a bit harder, but then the point system is hardcore on HTB and you have to maintain this grind

[exotic pendant]

Maybe timing it up with holidays like Christmas would be best idea

[proud moth]

getting to elite is honestly so hard

[exotic pendant]

If they don’t release a box at that time

I just wanted orange but I regret not getting Omni when I was there

[boreal pike]

Guys I got stuck, I installed Kali Linux and then I opened metasploit, but how do I do hackz?

[proud moth]

you have to run sudo sudo metasploit hack_plz

[boreal pike]

Thanks D4V! ❤️

[scenic maple]

bro has to do it all over for omni 😩

[exotic pendant]

Pretty much lol

[boreal pike]

The omni for omnipresent.

[proud moth]

omni would be insane to get rn

[boreal pike]

https://tenor.com/view/ongezellig-coco-computer-gif-18670825

Dammit.

[proud moth]

i mean, maybe not so much for Frosto but just because bro is a genius

[exotic pendant]

But I traded Omni for bugcrowd 2021-2024 MVP and top %

[proud moth]

yeah see, frosto is the real shi

[scenic maple]

At any given time there's always 20 active machines, 174 active challenges, and 50 flags for fortresses.

thats what it takes for omni

[exotic pendant]

Once we get HTB ent, I’ll do the prolabs again

I did offshore awhile ago

[boreal pike]

Golam please give me free hackor pointz for ranks, I heardz that asking for pointz helps.

[proud moth]

man offshore is slugghis it's so big and the flags are also hidden on top of that, yuck...

[scenic maple]

how diff was it than doing boxes / challs

[proud moth]

i am 75% but getting so bored rn

[scenic maple]

+1

[rose onyx]

Fortresses not needed?

[boreal pike]

Frick yeah!

[exotic pendant]

Bugbounty? I mean boxes you expect a bug

Real world, it’s hit or miss

[boreal pike]

Free pointz!

[scenic maple]

you do it for the good luck 😩

[boreal pike]

Alright, I should actually try to hack again, time to fire up me virtual box.

[scenic maple]

bbh must be tough on htbers who always expect a bug ig

[rose onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/of-course-gif-21373815

[exotic pendant]

I’m did it back when some big DC RCE was out and people kept knocking out the dc

Was a mess

[boreal pike]

Me when someone explains to me that I have to turn on the PC first before hacking.

[proud moth]

it's a mess also now, the connection drops are insane

[exotic pendant]

I think HTB has their own prolab instance

[proud moth]

it's too CHONK, i'm close to finishing but i am getting super bored of it

[exotic pendant]

So it might help

[signal mica]

Wait what i have to do forts too for omni

No way

[proud moth]

RIPR IPR IP

[signal mica]

Isnt it just boxer and chall

[scenic maple]

nah you dont need forts

[exotic pendant]

I wish ent came with all the certs

Ent is one seat one cert

[proud moth]

frosto make a book about how to become OP in hacking plz?

i would buy instant

[scenic maple]

so you can have one cert per year or what?

[boreal pike]

You thought about hacking the box, but have you thought about the box... Hacking you?

[exotic pendant]

Idk I think it’s just one cert you only get 1 cert? But if HTB wants to hook us up, I’ll do every cert

[scenic maple]

lol same i told him too he doesnt write blogs or anything just pure hacking

[proud moth]

he is too good for all that fancy social media shi, my bro is a real one

[boreal pike]

Honestly, social media is just a burden for your mental health. ((And still here I am, talking on Discord.))

[scenic maple]

you should make ur company talk to sales for yalls special needs
i am sure yall can find middle ground

[exotic pendant]

You think they would wiggle for it

[scenic maple]

they might

i mean thats kinda the point of ent that businesses can get their needs met

[stone marsh]

I believe every year they stock you up with new cert attempts per seat. But who knows, HTB does like making you pay for stuff

[rose onyx]

If it's just one seat one cert then buy more seats? 🤔

[stone marsh]

It's way more affordable to just buy cert attempts at that point

[scenic maple]

i mean it would be cheaper to just get ep
do every module
get rid of ep and do every cert

a seat is atleast like 2000 ish afaik

[stone marsh]

2500 per seat, with a minimum of five seats

[devout sail]

2500 what

cubes?

[stone marsh]

Dollars

[lime trout]

Depends on the plan

$250/min per seat

[dusky jacinth]

What’s yalls largest

[signal mica]

Seats to what chat...

[devout sail]

soo 25000 cubes

[scenic maple]

so the actual question is can you get a seat to do do call the certs

[dusky jacinth]

I know my dad has 50 for one of his teams

[devout sail]

to sit

[lime trout]

by getting a job that pays for HTB, yes

[scenic maple]

htb ep

😩

[devout sail]

whats ep?

[lime trout]

i got no idea 👍

[scenic maple]

enterprise

[dusky jacinth]

Cool

[lime trout]

Our B2B Offering

[scenic maple]

finally b2b makes some sense now

[lime trout]

HTB 4 Suits

[scenic maple]

so it actually stands for business 2 business

[devout sail]

yeah shortforms
hard to understand sometimes

[stone marsh]

It's good stuff tbf

[lime trout]

Yes

[devout sail]

ISSTLTFNOL

[lime trout]

its also for B2U tbf

[scenic maple]

[dusky jacinth]

Brand 2 brand

[devout sail]

[stone marsh]

If it wasn't for the fact that we need to share it between so many team members I would use it solely instead of purchasing VIP

[dusky jacinth]

Brand 2 brand encryption

[stone marsh]

Oh and I don't think it counts towards my ranking

[scenic maple]

but how what did yapping in genchat teach you about b2b
linkedin needs to know

[lime trout]

EP & MP Sync

the only thing that doesnt is seasonal points iirc?

[signal mica]

Post it, ill report the post

[scenic maple]

i will do the same o7

[stone marsh]

I've had issues with the syncing in the past. My pro lab stuff didnt sync at all (which was a good thing in my case) and a bunch of EP labs I have done show as not completed on the main platform

[scenic maple]

so in theory if you do the ep machines then it should appear completed in labs

did you ask support

[west venture]

No drivers? Write your own golam

[scenic maple]

but how do you write drivers in javascript

[stone marsh]

I did when it didnt sync my academy stuff

[scenic maple]

did they help

[west venture]

Write it in rust

[scenic maple]

nah rust is slow and getting shamed by C devs

[west venture]

Write it in C++

[scenic maple]

its ErebeusC not ErebeusRust

[stone marsh]

Eventually yeah, though I think they had to move one of the accounts to a different email address

[scenic maple]

hmm thats sussy

[west venture]

Who is Coldsparks

[boreal pike]

For some reason, all the LUA gifs contain bad words so I can't post the LUA my beloved GIF. Just imagine it instead.

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/lua-my-beloved-gif-25065055

[boreal pike]

But why can YOU post the GIF I can NOT!

((Skill issue on my level, I know.))

https://tenor.com/view/lua-my-beloved-gif-25065055

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/bUFQn.gif

[boreal pike]

Oh, this one works.

https://tenor.com/view/ace-attorney-phoenix-wright-miles-edgeworth-badge-phoenix-be-like-gif-22140090

[rose onyx]

Golam wen zig?

[west venture]

Wait where is my diamond shaped haxagon?

[scenic maple]

true its time for gooby

[rose onyx]

[west venture]

It was there like yesterday

[scenic maple]

but tbh tho i want to try doing coreutils in zig first 🔥

some guy actively tries it but he gives up sometimes

i stalk him on github

i would post the link but cant verify if meoware or not 😩

[rose onyx]

Does this person know he has a stalker?

[scenic maple]

jia tan like profile

[graceful pendant]

I have a real life stalker for around 10 years atp

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-internet-on-the-internet-no-one-knows-youre-a-cat-gif-16635254

[graceful pendant]

shes the scariest person youve ever seen

[scenic maple]

github

[graceful pendant]

shes showed up to physical locations where i am like around 6-7 times and made maybe 40+ social media accounts to write me and harass me publically

very scary

[willow storm]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-chat-cat-fall-hello-chat-cat-gif-24961178

[hoary nebula]

okay guys

tomorow Im hacker rank

[warped plank]

Just gonna, screenshot this for evidence

[willow storm]

i was gonna, thanks

[hard harbor]

hello chat.. monday is here.. I don't wanna work I just wanna bang on my keyboard all day (and do HTB labs)

finally gonna get script kiddie this week. 63% there.

[neon zealot]

why is nmap scan so slow

😭

[hoary nebula]

cuz its shy

[somber seal]

guys can you join my team its called ClaudeGenerated

[dusky jacinth]

Bums

[somber seal]

my ctf team

[dusky jacinth]

We just meetup and hangout

We intentionally have bad opsec

I’m trashed before we start nmap

[hoary nebula]

I yearn for the mines

[willow storm]

https://tenor.com/view/batman-thinking-gif-18107621495886085895

[hoary nebula]

Betman

[austere sigil]

yes?

[willow storm]

that was so fast

wow

[austere sigil]

hehe, I'm back sir

[willow storm]

welcome

[austere sigil]

thanks

[heady sage]

Threat research and profiling go boop

[austere sigil]

Computers cause problems, lets get rid of them.

[hoary nebula]

Back to the industrial age

[willow storm]

i so agree

[willow storm]

a bit more back?

[hoary nebula]

Victorian?

[vocal fog]

https://tenor.com/view/knight-xbox-gaming-elder-scrolls-games-gif-27629886

[hoary nebula]

so the Renaissance

or middle ages

I'd be a pirate cruising the carribean sea

[austere sigil]

I'd be dead as I have very little survivor skills

[vocal fog]

https://tenor.com/view/piece-of-candy-eat-hungry-street-gif-17382702

[willow storm]

yes

[clear dagger]

Welcome back sir!

[silent plinth]

hacker in movies

https://tenor.com/view/hackerman-hacker-gif-1143104449741080999

hacker in real life

https://tenor.com/view/cat-internet-on-the-internet-no-one-knows-youre-a-cat-gif-16635254

[hoary nebula]

embed fail

[dusky jacinth]

Womp womp

[willow storm]

double embed fail

[austere sigil]

Thanks man 🙂

[clear dagger]

Hacker don't click links

[dusky jacinth]

Hacker get embed perms

[willow storm]

https://tenor.com/view/hey-itscaleb-smart-smort-brain-caleb-gif-25958359

[silent plinth]

how to make it appear like a gif instead of link 😭

[willow storm]

[silent plinth]

tenor.com is litterally the biggest website for gifs

[clear dagger]

Level up

[hoary nebula]

noob

[willow storm]

level up litearlly

[silent plinth]

yes

[silent plinth]

ah

[dusky jacinth]

You literally have to rank up

[willow storm]

u too cant embed

[hoary nebula]

[dusky jacinth]

Hacker literally means you get embed perms

[willow storm]

[dusky jacinth]

Also cannot post link

[devout sail]

And secret channel access

[willow storm]

the tag

[clear dagger]

Shhhhh

[willow storm]

wow

[dusky jacinth]

Dw though hacker rank coming soon

[willow storm]

[devout sail]

Best

[dusky jacinth]

Making big moves out here

[devout sail]

[willow storm]

lmao

[devout sail]

Are we supposed to keep it secret?

Ok guys hacker rank gives only media perms no special channel access

[willow storm]

[clear dagger]

Nah, just busting you for no reason

[devout sail]

I'm not typing again

[willow storm]

no no chill lol

[hoary nebula]

kaizoku

[willow storm]

eh?

[prisma vessel]

https://tenor.com/view/whats-up-scary-scary-movie-scream-gif-16966640

[elder inlet]

https://tenor.com/view/smoking-gif-9745930313517122415

[proud moth]

sliver or mythic