general

[alpine pumice]

they should at least pay for chatgpt

[scenic maple]

true

https://tenor.com/view/lkmw-gif-3160952369947668620

[alpine pumice]

that's hard evidence showing cats have tricked us into treating them like royalty

they don't do shit

[terse dirge]

https://tenor.com/view/let-me-drink-my-milkshake-love-death-robots-i-wanna-drink-my-milkshake-about-to-drink-my-milkshake-love-death-and-robots-gif-25781617

[alpine pumice]

they trained us and are smarter than us

[scenic maple]

probably

[meager kernel]

@terse dirgehow does CS2 work for you on linux

works well?

[terse dirge]

I don't game on linux vro

I'm not l33t enough

[meager kernel]

on windows?

[terse dirge]

ya

[meager kernel]

💔

[scenic maple]

bro compiles linux kernal with custom patches and cant install games

[meager kernel]

betrayal

I played few games using proton

it was mostly out of the box

[scenic maple]

altho makes sense tho

[terse dirge]

never done it with custom patches, I'd rather not read the source code of linux and just think of it as magic

[scenic maple]

indie distros like void dont have much support

[meager kernel]

on CS2 i had to add one launch command cause CS2 doesnt like pipewire

[meager kernel]

do you dual boot?

[terse dirge]

no

[meager kernel]

or completely different PC?

[terse dirge]

laptop has void linux, pc has win 11

[meager kernel]

💔

betrayal by Ceald

[unique thicket]

Anyone knows someone that has CPTS and CDSA?

[lofty warren]

with AMD VGA

[meager kernel]

CS2 is working well for me

I tried some other games too, theyre mostly OOTB

[eternal mango]

Why?

[unique thicket]

I wanna know would it be better to take CPTS first then CDSA or it doesn’t really matter

[meager kernel]

if youre into pentesting go for CPTS

if youre into defence go for CDSA

[eternal mango]

👆

[meager kernel]

btw goblin

i got an internship

starting in Jan

[eternal mango]

Nice one! 🙂

[meager kernel]

Jr Pentester in a company of my country

[eternal mango]

Very cool

[meager kernel]

oh also

[unique thicket]

I’m into both Ngl!

[meager kernel]

i got an award for pentesting on my college website @eternal mango

[unique thicket]

So it doesn’t really matter

[meager kernel]

they increased my grades

[terse dirge]

I need to get jerb tbh

[meager kernel]

otherwise i was failing

[eternal mango]

Hah no way

💪

[muted olive]

https://tenor.com/bQTHO.gif

[muted olive]

https://tenor.com/ukUQgPg9ond.gif

nice of them

[mystic harbor]

[muted olive]

grade increase for vuln finding is a great deal

[meager kernel]

specially cause i would have failed my semester without the award

[eternal mango]

Glad it all worked out

[scenic maple]

bro said nah i would pass

[muted olive]

When I go to college, I'm gonna try that... if I get permission and all that

[meager kernel]

i did it without permission

[scenic maple]

we go to jail vro 🤝

[muted olive]

https://tenor.com/oCHw5K9KEzn.gif

[eternal mango]

You said you had permission

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/cats-fbi-police-police-cat-fbi-cat-gif-1256429038097351888

[meager kernel]

not written

verbal

[scenic maple]

he found the bug first then reported

[eternal mango]

I recall

I gotta get back to letting meds make my stomach turn inside out

[scenic maple]

i always wondered if makelaris and makelarisjr are related irl

[eternal mango]

Wish me luck

[muted olive]

This would be me

[meager kernel]

if i find another vuln next sem then theyll pass me again

[muted olive]

https://tenor.com/7eBwa1eE14.gif

and tbf its a very one sided deal 🤣

[meager kernel]

i think its a good deal

im making my college secure

and in exchange im getting good grades

[muted olive]

most college websites are shit, so its easy pickings for ya

one of them I got permission to test

I almost pwned the entire domain

https://tenor.com/bFUTs.gif

/j I found something that would've allowed me to do that, but I didn't do that obviously

reported it there and got it fixed

[meager kernel]

my college website had the exact same vuln as an HTB machaine

devvortex

literally everything was same

[lofty warren]

vro, ur banner

[mystic harbor]

Twin

[muted olive]

lol yeah, I've heard most pentesters say that irl is easier than HTB

[meager kernel]

thats why HTB is goated

[terse dirge]

as someone who's seen and managed things like imaging computers, and other stuff I can confirm that ours looks like a 5 year old set it up

[meager kernel]

HTB often prepares you for engagements like big corporations

@eternal mango ty for making HTB 🙏

[terse dirge]

we have a switch that's plugged into another switch that's plugged into another switch, that's plugged into another switch 💀

[meager kernel]

thanks to the whole team

GOATed platform

[muted olive]

their response to me report

and now after almost 1.5 years, its still not fixed

[meager kernel]

better redactions than the Epstein files

[muted olive]

real

[sharp shuttle]

I name all of mine after anime girls

then i use fantastical names for public releases

[open vigil]

behold

friday morning

[sharp shuttle]

https://tenor.com/view/dungeon-soup-my-blade-githyanki-quality-so-you-know-it's-good-gif-12192236967424097653

[sharp shuttle]

nice hahaha

i love dinklemeyer

https://tenor.com/view/stupid-dinglemire-dinglemire-stoopid-strahd-gif-18375841000506622506

[frigid mountain]

Hi guis

[azure remnant]

yo guys where i can find shell3d fork of aquatone binary

[gaunt gale]

Which is better for arduino? C or C++?

[azure remnant]

ofc C++

[crude wasp]

wait i got vip+ to rank up why are so many challs with 0 pts 😭

[lofty warren]

vro

[azure remnant]

needed to skip a directive and it compiled nvm

[lofty warren]

retired challs & machines cannot gain the point

[lime trout]

Only active machines/challenges count for ranking

[crude wasp]

i knoww, how do i sort out active challenges

ive completed all active machines

oh we can

nvm

[meager kernel]

You got VIP+ JUST NOW???

I THOUGHT YOU ALREADY HAD IT BEFORE

[frigid mountain]

😄

[young glen]

I still use free

[meager kernel]

I have VIP too

its good to pass up honestly

[supple rain]

Evening at home)))

[proud moth]

Gday melbourne

slept too much

i need triple coffee

[proud moth]

lmao

[crude wasp]

i get only after seasonal end

[upbeat tangle]

Hello ladies and gents

[devout sail]

Derp retired content has no poi6

[topaz scaffold]

)!?;

Lamb

[lofty warren]

love ur guys

https://tenor.com/view/bocchi-the-rock-bocchi-the-rock-gif-hitori-gotoh-hitori-gotoh-gif-27237975

[warped plank]

@cerulean bloom @supple plume was totally losing cos I blundered a rook then bro blunders M1

[young glen]

Chess

[heady sage]

is borring and for nerds

[mystic abyss]

Hi

[lime trout]

@stark dagger is this your twin

[mystic abyss]

If I get the vip for a month, will my HTB credits (from seasons) be consumed first or is that a choice I can have?

[lime trout]

Credits get consumed first

[crude wasp]

💯

[proud moth]

as a boring nerd, i can confirm this is true

[proud moth]

but you forgot "toxic" @heady sage, it's also a toxic game as well

[lofty warren]

[lime trout]

oh lovely

uhh

https://quack.pics/u/c788a8c9-4506-4377-8536-f35aab3531f6.png

should be able to

try now @trim phoenix

[warped plank]

Discord's message is misleading, if Emma was able to DM the other winners but you, then it's your privacy settings.

[lime trout]

i just made a ticket with them

so they can get it 🤷

[upbeat tangle]

This academy is brilliant

Under the Cloud Architecture section. These words.... "Vendor lock-in Migrating from one cloud provider to another can be complex." . This is how companies like Google get you hooked and can raises prises without you resisting

You dont want to lose all your data do you?

[lime trout]

it really depends on how you setup your cloud providers

if you use vendor-agnostic stuff, and not locked in services it can be pretty easy

but if your using hyper-specific aws services for example, then yeah its going to be hard

but there is now alot of cloud abstraction layers to make stuff write-once-deploy-many

i.e. terraform etc

[upbeat tangle]

Im thinking from the point of view from somebody that knows nothing about tech, a regular normie guy with a macbook that buys cloud storage

Im thinking about how companies can abuse this guy financially

[lime trout]

Apple is horrible for lockin

fuck i even have an Apple Credit card, so i'd have to deal with that if i changed 😂

[undone fossil]

Apple / ubiquity are like

[lime trout]

Ubnt isnt the same.

[undone fossil]

Top tier lockslop

[lime trout]

ubnt is peak compared to most other network companies

no contracts, no subscription fees

[devout sail]

Yoo pissboy @dusky jacinth

You win stuff

[undone fossil]

Yeah but price point and “their ecosystem” basically make them the apple of networking

Not saying they’re not worth the money but

[lime trout]

They've come a long way in getting good enterprise features

like finally having BGP, proper threat detection feeds etc

[undone fossil]

I feel someone is defending their ubiquity spending

[lime trout]

eh

for prosumer spending theyre on the more pricey side

but for the enterprise space its good

[upbeat tangle]

i dont know how you guys think about cloud storage but for me personally its never something i ever been interested in. Storing my stuff on somebody elses computer and paying for it. I'd rather buy a bunch of USB sticks

[lime trout]

i dont even use them anymore

i had a UDM Pro-Max as my main gateway for a while

[undone fossil]

I think it’s icky but has its use cases

[lime trout]

but im back to MicroTik now

[lime trout]

i just run my own cloud tbh

[undone fossil]

MICROTIK MENTIONED

[lime trout]

and only do encrypted backups to "cloud" storage of my local stuff

[lime trout]

theyre fire

[upbeat tangle]

If you make your own cloud, i guess you could technically use that as a proxy between you and the VPN provider?

or im thinking wrong?

[lime trout]

i dont use 3rd party vpns

if i really dont trust a network i just VPN through my home connection

[upbeat tangle]

interesting

[upbeat tangle]

Im doing something nerdy today. Im taking the kids to see back to the future 2 on the movie theatre

So you could say Doc succeeded

[acoustic pelican]

I have a moral question

do you guys think we can discuss it :))

Does culture define what is normal or not normal in the world ?

Does culture define laws 🙂

Shound't laws be the same for all people on the planet ?

and have a uniqe Government 😄 which could simplify rights for everyone

I think having multiple cultures is very ineffective and bad for most people on the Planet.

It goes against the idea of fairness and equality in the true sense of things.

Where competency should matter more then the culture you get born with.

[rose onyx]

[proud moth]

:petthebox:

nah...

[warped plank]

Let me introduce you to: Marxism

https://tenor.com/view/marx-marxism-communism-intesifies-funny-gif-16697750

[proud moth]

true equality would be nice, but impossible because humanity cannot change the nature of humanity as a whole

[deft bay]

@undone fossil u back?

[warped plank]

not for lack of trying

[proud moth]

it's in our nature to exploit and kill each other, that's it

[gentle wind]

hey guys anybody can help me troubleshoot somthing i dont get?

connecting to a machine q:

[heady sage]

https://tenor.com/view/akkubaba007-jerry-laugh-akku-fav-gif-gif-16150872697915744919

[proud moth]

that's unlikely to change, in fact it might get worse because of how connected we are now

people can exploit and kill much more people than before now

[heady sage]

Are we seriously talking about this

[deft bay]

all because of stupid rich people

[heady sage]

Just SUAH

[devout sail]

Suah?

[heady sage]

SHUT UP AND HACK

[deft bay]

suah on yo mouth

o

[proud moth]

vader dropped the new hawk tuah

HACK SUAH

[deft bay]

[proud moth]

i can't, too dumb, stuck forever at hard boxes for the rest of time

[devout sail]

Breh kratos left htb too?

[gentle wind]

when i try to download a .opvn file for a machine i get something went wrong /: why is that?

[devout sail]

[heady sage]

Bug bounty is right there

[proud moth]

i can't hack fake machines, let alone real ones

[heady sage]

It’s legit easier than you might think

[proud moth]

u think i am frosto or something

[heady sage]

I had an XSS in minutes

And a few buisness logic bugs

Don’t tell me it’s hard because anyone that’s pro hacker and above can do it if they’ve been paying attention

[proud moth]

thing is, i am not paying attention

matter of fact i just regret being born

[heady sage]

Hades dedicated time to it, and he got Microsoft bugs off the yin yang

[devout sail]

What 💀

[proud moth]

yeah but these are real hackers you talking about, not half assed clowns like me

[devout sail]

Just blame your past self and leave shit for your future self and chill

[heady sage]

Frosto might be a genius but if you follow what he says, you start to realize that you can do most of the stuff he does with enough dedication and grit

If you self deprecate all the time you won’t get anywhere

[proud moth]

good, there's nowhere i wanna be anyway

[heady sage]

You’ll end up a bitter person who will never get better

[proud moth]

except in bed maybe

[heady sage]

Because your mindset

Prevents you from doing it

Look at me

I used to be like that too

[rose onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-sand-noises-angry-angry-sand-sand-people-angry-sand-people-gif-15181576

[proud moth]

maybe things will change later on and i get dedication back

[heady sage]

Untill I locked in and started doing stuff

So

[rose onyx]

I'm sure frosto was a half assed clown at one point in time, but he manned the fuck up.

[heady sage]

https://tenor.com/view/tea-epic-of-alexander-alexander-final-fantasy-lock-in-gif-4609407048063183148

[devout sail]

[proud moth]

even if i improve, i will just become a depressed competent hacker instead of a depressed clown hacker

no big difference in life

altough i agree that it's nice to be ambitious

[heady sage]

STOP THAT

[vivid flower]

Whats got u down bro

Just keep chasing those loose ends and eventually youll run out the list

Be okay with not knowing everything

Just be the man for the job

[proud moth]

i am an okay enough hacker, of course not comparable to some others, i am a little proud that's true

[heady sage]

Look at it this way

[proud moth]

but it's definitely not something that matters for me a lot

[heady sage]

At least you’re better than me

Struggling on CWEE

[vivid flower]

I just landed an interview with a pentest firm for a junior pentest position

[heady sage]

Good job Tyc

Whatll happen to the site? @vivid flower

[proud moth]

nice

[vivid flower]

Ill still help with it actually bandors wants to rebrand it and merge it with the old company hackertutor

[zealous charm]

[vivid flower]

Im stoked tho

If my dumb ass can make it so can you

[heady sage]

Before you ask, CWEE is my piority first and I’m still struggling with XPATH injection

[open vigil]

do not be, remember that today is friday

[zealous charm]

Nice, some of the stuff in that course was pretty janky

[heady sage]

Actually wait you have CWEE, do you have a resource I can look at for xpath. I’m struggling with it and could use some external reading material with understanding it

[open vigil]

I haven't used any external resource for CWEE at all tbh

[warm dome]

how you finding CWEE compared to CPTS i've done more on CWEE then cpts just cause liked the content coverage a little more

[heady sage]

Really? The module was kind of confusing

[heady sage]

Oh it’s wonderful I’ve learned so much.

But CPTS def did a better job teaching me the practical stuff

[warm dome]

ohh so have i been going backward by going for CWEE first?

[open vigil]

for me .NET deserialization module was the pretty confusing at the end and the skills assessment of the HTTP request smuggling module

I think it was named HTTP attacks ?

[warm dome]

i had a bit of background to begin with so kinda went for stuff i liked

[open vigil]

rest was enough tbh

[warm dome]

ohh thats not to bad

[heady sage]

I would say CWES would be better to go through first

[warm dome]

hmm im basically up to same part on CWEE as you are atm should i swap over to cpts?

im running education sub atm so im not paying for a cert just content

[heady sage]

I think CWES would be best

If you’re focused on web

[warm dome]

i might go through it soonish then, atm im trying to push for some ranking on labs again

[heady sage]

But CPTS is great if you wanna focus on general pentesting

[warm dome]

ironically im blue team but i just enjoy pentesting

[heady sage]

Plus I got a free voucher for CPTS

[warm dome]

o: that from silver annual?

[heady sage]

And I’ve been enjoying Gold annual for free

[warm dome]

enterprise?

[heady sage]

Nope HTB mod named rat gave me a gift

[warm dome]

dam bro you living the high life now

[vivid flower]

😮

[proud moth]

well deserved gift

[heady sage]

So I’ve just been enjoying gold

[open vigil]

did rat get fired after that ? 🤣 I haven't seen him in a while

[prime crescent]

is htb staffs on holiday right now?

[vivid flower]

Speakin of that @dusky jacinth gz on winning the giveaway

[warm dome]

they come back on 10th or 11th

[prime crescent]

ah

[heady sage]

Oh no he left because he lost his appartement

And also he left the field

Shame really

[open vigil]

sad

I wish him the best tho

cool guy

[warm dome]

im kinda surprised you didnt try to jump to the next level certs with gold to make the most of it

[heady sage]

He tutored me through CPTS and helped me practice writing reports

[proud moth]

yo what the hell

[heady sage]

He couldn’t find a job

Poor guy

[proud moth]

what, is this the same "rat" we talking about?

[heady sage]

Yup

[proud moth]

wasn't he like very good?

[heady sage]

Mod of HTB

[proud moth]

man how the fuck did my beginner ass manage to find a job in pentesting it's so unfair

[warm dome]

honestly its not surprising even with experience it can be hard atm

[scenic maple]

cause life is unfair

[vivid flower]

😢 didnt know he was going through it is he okay?

[warm dome]

its luck of the draw unless you know someone personnel tbh

that many people jumping into things now its hard accross the board

[vivid flower]

Is rat homeless rn

[heady sage]

Yup about to be

[proud moth]

yo what the fuck actually

[scenic maple]

did you talk to him recently?

[vivid flower]

Is he at least able to be car homeless? Thats way better than being street homeless

[heady sage]

I need to

[scenic maple]

yeah please do

ask how things are

i bet he might have found a job maybe not pentesting sure

but he must have

[heady sage]

He’s my friend so hopefully he’s still okay

But last time I talked to him he’s moving up north to be homeless there

[vivid flower]

Is he goin to oregon

[proud moth]

this is sad AF but cracked me up at the same time

the comedic timing on that

[vivid flower]

Tell him to come to eugene we treat homeless well here

[warm dome]

i think people under estimate how hard it is to find work even with experience now, hopefully he gets something come up tho, quite literally a lucky dip these days

[proud moth]

tell him to come to germany where even average dumb mfs like me can get into pentesting

[heady sage]

I got rejected from Crowdstrike like three times and got through the interview process like once

[vivid flower]

Germany mentioned 🇩🇪

[scenic maple]

how would that work tho isnt there more jobs or stuff in us than germany
also he would need to learn german i think

[heady sage]

My mommas from there

[prime crescent]

maybe the market is less saturated

[proud moth]

i don't know any german, i am a hikikomori i hate talking to people in general

[warm dome]

i was out of work for 10months with over 1200 applications before i picked up work again

[scenic maple]

hmmm

[proud moth]

i sent like 6 applications in total in my entire life

[vivid flower]

Europe is more open than the usa job market for cyber

[warm dome]

either your very young, got good networking and got it through someone you know or got very lucky

[heady sage]

Holy shit Karev, how are you man

[proud moth]

i have zero networking or social skills whatsoever, i am also an autistic asshole for the most part

i think i just got lucky yeah maybe

[prime crescent]

hello im good, just finished my semester so im on break rn

trynna learn binex

[proud moth]

rat's situation is unbelievable btw

is he from the US

[heady sage]

Yes he is

[proud moth]

why tf doesn't that pseudo contry burn to ashes?

is it normal for talented people to be homeless in that hell?

what a joke

[warm dome]

i imagine us would be like 10x what its like here but pretty sure they been going to shit over there since all the stuff with faang

[scenic maple]

tbh there are talented homless people everywhere

cold world

[prime crescent]

amurica is just wayy too cooked for tech

[warm dome]

yep and worse there situation gets more they fall out of touch with those skills

its really a fucked up cycle

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/copium-cat-gif-27161395

cant do anything else then drink copium

[proud moth]

i hope people manage to leave that shithole

[scenic maple]

[proud moth]

but can't rat like, find a job as a simple sec engineer?

[zealous charm]

any hacking today?

[proud moth]

my first job was a sec engineer

[scenic maple]

busy with work

hbu

[warm dome]

that would require competent HR people

[zealous charm]

yes sir, hacking through the holidays

[scenic maple]

anything interesting?

[proud moth]

absolute master

[zealous charm]

I made sure to send 3 bugs on christmas (RCE, XXE, info disclosure)

[proud moth]

i spend my holidays playing demon's souls

[warm dome]

i still dont get how people get times like this especially on windows boxes

[untold fiber]

luck

[warm dome]

and thats even a slow one..

[proud moth]

NLTE must be the luckiest man alive then

[scenic maple]

bc or synack?

[untold fiber]

and/or pre-existing familiarity with the exploit and a ton of stuff to rapidly enumerate

[scenic maple]

or the man with most automation

[heady sage]

Sure is

[proud moth]

yeah...so extreme skills basically

[zealous charm]

BC, so I gotta wait for payout only nice thing about synack is they pay on acceptance

[untold fiber]

not just skill

[warm dome]

tbh at this point im convinced he spends all his time just doing pipelines for htb ctfs

[untold fiber]

you just have to be really fast in general

0xdf is extremely skilled and would talk all the time about how he could never get blood

because he just cant work that fast / efficiently

[proud moth]

man 0xdf is a legend

[untold fiber]

I've only solved a box faster-than-blood time once

[warm dome]

but even so some of the times you see are inhuman, like he'd have to have an insane automation pipeline

[untold fiber]

and it was because I happened to have been working with the exact thing being featured like the week before

[proud moth]

NLTE has absolutely brutal automation for sure

and inhumane knowledge

[warm dome]

honestly i'd love to see his process for just one box

[proud moth]

me too

[untold fiber]

sometimes it might be unintendeds too

[warm dome]

just the fact of knowing how his so quick

[untold fiber]

we also confirm with the people who get blood how they got it to check if it was intended or not

[proud moth]

my approach got shaped by ippsec bcoz of his videos

bro single handendly made my carreer possible

[warm dome]

tbh at this point i've accepted if anyone else gets the box its cause NLTE let them

[untold fiber]

lol

[proud moth]

this 100%

he was either tired or on holiday

[untold fiber]

back in the day it used to be snowscan, xct

[warm dome]

xct rings a bell but not snowscan

[proud moth]

man i remember snowscan

[untold fiber]

snowscan was number 1 / 2 for a long time

and xct was number 1 for a long time

[scenic maple]

has there been times where you cant find the person who got blood

[untold fiber]

but of course xct works for us now so

[scenic maple]

yall nerfed him

[proud moth]

XCT is just godly

[scenic maple]

staff cant get blood afaik

[untold fiber]

not to my knowledge

but it may have happened

[warm dome]

you should put him into a box blind just to see if he can beat nlte

even if he isnt recorded

[proud moth]

the ultimate battle

[scenic maple]

xct has lot more bloods than nlte

but idk for how long it will stay like that

[warm dome]

yeah but how does the times compare

[austere sinew]

speaking of blood i'm buying a knife and hoping i don't accidentally cause hell

a knife set to be worse

[proud moth]

NLTE could probably do the CPTS like this:

Invoke-CPTS-PwnPlz

[scenic maple]

how is this a good metric tho cause some boxes are difficult and get time to blood
some of them are easy and many of them could get it
i think it would be more points for the long timed bloods cause no one else could solve it

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/knife-cat-cat-knife-cat-knife-cat-angry-gif-9404759922388476738

[prime crescent]

is this golam when he gets cranky

[austere sinew]

guys do i hack a box today

[scenic maple]

this is me when i get ragebaited on skills assesments

[warm dome]

not so much for metrics but just morbid curiosity i woulda said to do it over a season but thats alot of time for someone whos staff to do them blindly

[austere sinew]

or focus on cert grabbing

[scenic maple]

you can just hit the api and find out blood times and make a graph out of it

[heady sage]

Focus on certs

[scenic maple]

what cert?

[warm dome]

ohhh theres an api for that?

[austere sinew]

not cpts

[proud moth]

go for certs but only if they are HTB

anything else is garbage in comparison

[scenic maple]

there is unoffcial docs for the whole htb system
think of it like everything u could do in the site but via api

https://github.com/Gubarz/unofficial-htb-api
and a wrapper
https://github.com/Gubarz/gohtb

[heady sage]

Gubarz did a wonderful job

[warm dome]

ohh sounds fun, aso is the global rank updated once daily? i just jumped

[heady sage]

Go check out his work

[scenic maple]

i have 0 idea abt that bruddah

[heady sage]

: )

[young glen]

😃

[prime crescent]

hmm i wonder what is fav language is

[scenic maple]

hint

it begins with g

[prime crescent]

godot

[scenic maple]

golang

godot is a game engine

[prime crescent]

golam

[scenic maple]

indeed

[lofty warren]

https://labs.hackthebox.com/achievement/machine/2125051/706

now, I'm 1pwn

[gray wraith]

How to stop being impatient af during doing boxes 😭

Feel like its fogging my brain

[warm dome]

just means you havnt suffered enough yet 🙂

[gray wraith]

I suffer on every box I attempt

[warm dome]

#deletewindowsboxesperm

[gray wraith]

Oh dude.. I tried my first Windows easy box few days ago and I got hit with a wall of open ports

[proud moth]

rippp

hardest part imo

[warm dome]

i just dislike windows boxes, linux ones are just nicer

[gray wraith]

To say it felt like a slap is nothing

[warm dome]

like winrm is such a pain to automate

[scenic maple]

rewrite it

[heady sage]

Incredible job!

[main vapor]

Hi, I’m new to the community and cyber security in general, I know I’ll get trolled for this but looking to try and connect with other beginners and work up together

Dm me

[heady sage]

That was not an easy box

[warm dome]

i've been rewriting it all day with c#

i keep getting blocked tho

[gray wraith]

Ih wait, didnt know its an insane box, thats amazing

Here I am bangkhg my head with easy ones

[stark dagger]

No and ive already expressed my disappointment with such a flagrant offense lol

[warm dome]

me > im gonna actually rest this xmas break

also me > just one more flag then i will

[heady sage]

Well if it isn’t Mr Darkcorp, when’s the new box eh?

[proud moth]

bro created darkcorp he is a menace

[scenic maple]

so who is your twin

[gray wraith]

Me

[molten bobcat]

I'm awake

Weird nightmares about failing classes

[scenic maple]

dropout of college while you still can

[proud moth]

best decision i ever made lmao

[warm dome]

cyber degree?

[proud moth]

no, theo physics

[supple plume]

It's been a minute

[warm dome]

ohh fancy

[supple plume]

had to reverify

[heady sage]

You got pro hacker?

[scenic maple]

he always was

[supple plume]

I was, just covered on zesty pink

[proud moth]

bro was majestic

[supple plume]

lets pinkify then

[proud moth]

lmao

[supple plume]

hahaha

[proud moth]

thats the spirit

[warm dome]

o:

[scenic maple]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_791Y-vs4

[near swift]

Golam

[proud moth]

lmaoo

[warm dome]

between that aand emojis bruh

[supple plume]

yeah we're on friday

[scenic maple]

actually—no

[scenic maple]

drako

[warm dome]

oh?

[scenic maple]

—————————————————————————————

its not same as -

its —

m dash

[supple plume]

I learned how to configure mcps today

[scenic maple]

so you now just have to speak to change stuff right?

[warm dome]

i c

[molten bobcat]

I'm not even in college lol

[supple plume]

I am learning professional vibe coding 💀

[scenic maple]

too late should have dropped out when you had the chance

[supple plume]

kinda but even with that it sistematically fails poorly

[proud moth]

common sense enjoyer

[supple plume]

I tried the x20 token sucker and it just made a bigger bill

same shitty performance

[dusky jacinth]

Thx u thx universe

[supple plume]

not recommended

[warm dome]

watching ai agents fail brings me immense joy

[cobalt trail]

is there a mod available for some questions regarding cube subscription ?

[molten bobcat]

I graduated years ago is what I meant lol

[molten bobcat]

Mods have no knowledge of this and don't work for htb

[supple plume]

so easy for these things to trip on the same spot over and over so just RTFM and coding still being king

[west lynx]

https://help.hackthebox.com/en/articles/5986762-contacting-htb-support

[warm dome]

i finished my bachelors a while ago but at the end of my masters now

[molten bobcat]

I got my degree.. in 2022

[proud moth]

wait how come, hol up how old are you??

[warm dome]

my bachelors was 2023 then i finish masters in feb/march next year

but i did alot of SE/cyber before bachelors

[molten bobcat]

I didn't have the money to go to college right after highschool I enrolled in 2020

[supple plume]

I painted the wall merry christmas (and the c word) in highschool and got kicked out from the system at 16

[warm dome]

only found out later i coulda skipped bachelors and just done masters

[supple plume]

uppercase btw

[molten bobcat]

I am 28

Still having bad dreams of missing assignments or failing classes 🙄

[undone fossil]

Well well well

[proud moth]

there's no way we are the same age

there's no way

[molten bobcat]

Why lol

[warm dome]

bruh im 29 lol

[deft bay]

doxed

doxed

[deft bay]

how are you

[supple plume]

Im the oldest here muahahah

[proud moth]

aren't you all like responsible adults and all that

[undone fossil]

23

[scenic maple]

2 years away from bald

[supple plume]

30

[scenic maple]

bald

[proud moth]

i still play starcraft with doritos and also 28

[scenic maple]

yall dont believe me?

ask echo if he is bald or not

[undone fossil]

Got the flu :(

[deft bay]

f

[brisk abyss]

Echo r u bald

[undone fossil]

Otherwise been good :) how’s things with you

[supple plume]

I'm blad because I'm a web developer

[undone fossil]

StarCraft slaps

[brisk abyss]

Oof

[scenic maple]

see?

[supple plume]

not because Im old

[deft bay]

goood, whisper and I are still together :D I'm making a career switch

[proud moth]

struggling forever to reach 2800 MMR

[scenic maple]

i never said 30 is old

i am just saying by 30 everyone goes bald

[undone fossil]

Yooo

[cerulean bloom]

my dad aint bald tho

[proud moth]

how old are you golam

[undone fossil]

What’s the career switch?

[molten bobcat]

I try to be a responsible adult. I have a house and car and all that good jazz

[scenic maple]

i am not bald yet

[warm dome]

https://tenor.com/view/balding-white-chicks-gif-8309186738606886317

[scenic maple]

i will be tho

[undone fossil]

Cringe cloud

Smoke instead

Go clubbing

[molten bobcat]

I know I know, I'm not gambling enough

[undone fossil]

Do crimes

Good

[scenic maple]

do cybercrimes count?

[warm dome]

the hairline losing the battle then?

[undone fossil]

No I cannot advise

[lofty warren]

0:000> u rip L11
00000063`28d01800 55                   push    rbp
00000063`28d01801 4889e5               mov     rbp,rsp
00000063`28d01804 6a08                 push    8
00000063`28d01806 56                   push    rsi
00000063`28d01807 4881ec10000000       sub     rsp,10h
00000063`28d0180e 493b65a0             cmp     rsp,qword ptr [r13-60h]
00000063`28d01812 0f8631000000         jbe     00000063`28d01849
00000063`28d01818 49ba4141414141414141 mov     r10,4141414141414141h
00000063`28d01822 c4c1f96ec2           vmovq   xmm0,r10
00000063`28d01827 49ba4242424242424242 mov     r10,4242424242424242h
00000063`28d01831 c4c1f96eca           vmovq   xmm1,r10
00000063`28d01836 4c8b5677             mov     r10,qword ptr [rsi+77h]
00000063`28d0183a 41832a36             sub     dword ptr [r10],36h
00000063`28d0183e 0f8810000000         js      00000063`28d01854
00000063`28d01844 488be5               mov     rsp,rbp
00000063`28d01847 5d                   pop     rbp
00000063`28d01848 c3                   ret

[scenic maple]

some battles you cant win

[proud moth]

i have a a smoking addiction, alcohol addiction, i like poker, i am a sociopath and all that jazz

[undone fossil]

Thanks

[supple plume]

always 0pwn

[cerulean bloom]

https://tenor.com/view/working-moms-i-am-a-responsible-adult-drunk-alicia-rutherford-workin-moms-gif-20023560

[molten bobcat]

I mean I smoke too

[deft bay]

I want to become a video editor, and eventually audio visual project manager/producer

[warm dome]

time for the trip to turkey

[undone fossil]

Ayo sounds fun

Best of luck

[lofty warren]

now I'm 1pwn beach

heheh

[molten bobcat]

I have to buy some groceries

[deft bay]

Would have loved to do music as a career but it's too uncertain

[scenic maple]

2pwn

[supple plume]

you're 0bitches

[cerulean bloom]

3pwn

[molten bobcat]

Goodness I'm chilly

Where hoodie

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/chess-get-real-gif-332981694918209042

[cerulean bloom]

it is cooooold these days

[proud moth]

i got triple hoodie today, germany increased gas prices can't afford heating

[molten bobcat]

Draw by repetition

[proud moth]

it's 12 degrees indoor

i am freezing

[molten bobcat]

Good lord dude

[supple plume]

draw by boredom

[molten bobcat]

That's dangerous

[scenic maple]

bro thats not good

you can die

[proud moth]

i have triple hoodie and double blanket though

[molten bobcat]

No animals in the house?

[proud moth]

one of which is electrical

[heady sage]

Hey can I ask you something

[molten bobcat]

Sure

[lofty warren]

https://tenor.com/view/pen-penelope-love-love-from-pen-gif-749546999404141272

[proud moth]

i have a cat, her room is heated though

[molten bobcat]

Alrighty good

[cerulean bloom]

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/pallas-cat-cat-cute-cat-cute-pallas-cat-dirk-gif-24844897

[proud moth]

she is more important than my scrawny ass

[molten bobcat]

Please take care of yourself and your critters ty ty

[heady sage]

Do you not like me?

[scenic maple]

so direct

[molten bobcat]

I have no negative feelings about you friend

[supple plume]

everyone likes you

[molten bobcat]

[cerulean bloom]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-true-kramer-seinfeld-gif-6564373007119861775

[supple plume]

see

[molten bobcat]

Why would I not like you goober lol

[heady sage]

I was kinda rude to you before

[heady sage]

And I feel bad about that

[molten bobcat]

A lot of people were rude to me before

[proud moth]

MYSTERIOUSE MUSIK

[molten bobcat]

But I forgive ya 😄

[scenic maple]

cold world

[supple plume]

I've been rude to cloud multiple times

do you like me cloud?

[molten bobcat]

Thin

[scenic maple]

very cold world

[molten bobcat]

Ice

[supple plume]

you do

[molten bobcat]

The thinnest ice

[scenic maple]

colder world

[molten bobcat]

[proud moth]

cold house i live in

[heady sage]

https://tenor.com/view/i-didn't-do-it-the-simpsons-yay-class-cheering-cheering-gif-10707348910034133336

[molten bobcat]

True lul

[proud moth]

lmaoo

[supple plume]

I wish it was colder

[scenic maple]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-gif-27161863

[supple plume]

I am not feeling any cold

[scenic maple]

get a cat like this

[molten bobcat]

It is.. 36 F outside rn

[scenic maple]

ew F

[heady sage]

https://tenor.com/view/say-the-line-bart-school-millhouse-classroom-gif-26683141

Say the line Golam!

[proud moth]

me moving from the bed to the couch

(most productive thing i do all day)

[scenic maple]

thats 2 degrees btw

[molten bobcat]

I also moved from the bed to the couch hehe

[supple plume]

2 degrees is good

[scenic maple]

i said it way many times today

[molten bobcat]

But I have to go to the store for a bit cuz I'm out of snacks and drinks 🙁

[supple plume]

I like that temp

[proud moth]

yall look at this goofbal right here

[molten bobcat]

Fluff

[scenic maple]

put him inside ur jacket

[molten bobcat]

Hang on where's my creature I'll take a picture

[heady sage]

I was also thinking about setting up splunk and elastic is it free?

[proud moth]

cuh

[scenic maple]

demo

[proud moth]

bro is like 48 years old

[scenic maple]

aint nothing wrong with that

[heady sage]

What?

[proud moth]

nothing

don't know what to do i reply randomly with cuh

CUZ

[supple plume]

is this you?

[molten bobcat]

I don't think splunk and elastic are free but I could be wrong

[proud moth]

whats the mic for??

[molten bobcat]

Talking?

[heady sage]

You solved all the mystery labs right Golam? @scenic maple

[scenic maple]

no i have up on portswigger

i will be back tho

there isnt many cyber jobs in my place as u may know

i have thought abt it

and gonna do web focus only on the dev side

for as long as college

[proud moth]

ayo...

real talk

[supple plume]

I think is for his work

[proud moth]

bro talks 💀 (i got zero braincells because of the cold)

[molten bobcat]

Apparently lmao

[proud moth]

Factually*

[molten bobcat]

He was just sitting on my desk waiting for me

[eternal crystal]

howdy

[meager kernel]

Hmmm

[proud moth]

Fluff

[heady sage]

I’m switching to Appsec instead of red teaming in general

[meager kernel]

@supple plume no you

[supple plume]

hahah

[proud moth]

i also like Apple Triplesec

[heady sage]

That joke was terrible.

[scenic maple]

i would say get into something in terms of work
any IT or whatever cause blank years look lke a stain on cv

[proud moth]

Yes

it's my specialty

[scenic maple]

even dev role

i know you used to be a dev before

[molten bobcat]

I don't list my first few jobs on my resume anymore

[scenic maple]

cause u dont need to

[meager kernel]

@scenic maple hire me as a mod

[scenic maple]

but most people would need to

[meager kernel]

Pls

[molten bobcat]

Yeah but my work history looks like I didn't get a job until I was 22 now lmao

[supple plume]

BEHIND ME

I am first

[scenic maple]

i dont make the calls 😩

[supple plume]

me is the next mod

[meager kernel]

Nice behind

[proud moth]

aint no way u are not 46

[scenic maple]

community contributor --> mod

[molten bobcat]

Screw you buddy

[undone fossil]

My team is hiring

[proud moth]

bahhahaah

[meager kernel]

What role is open

[scenic maple]

ur team is hiring discod mods? 💀 💀

[undone fossil]

No developers

[scenic maple]

c/c++

[supple plume]

what's the stack

[muted olive]

hello chat

[scenic maple]

?

[molten bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/developers-gif-13292051

[meager kernel]

I can test pens

Pentesters

[supple plume]

test

[proud moth]

hire me, here is my skills

1. i know udp some tcp port
2. i do nc ip port and send data
3. i know trick to make incisible directory on windos 7

[molten bobcat]

Wow

[undone fossil]

C++, ideally strong OS knowledge in at least one main OS

[molten bobcat]

He might be the real deal here

[scenic maple]

name 5 diff udp ports and what they usually run

[meager kernel]

I have strong Linux knowledge

[prime crescent]

amatuers, i know how to exit vim

[meager kernel]

Ask @supple plume

[molten bobcat]

Hang on I can win this one

"I have a job."

[supple plume]

kratos can install arch, took him 4 months only

[scenic maple]

[supple plume]

now he needs to rtfm

[undone fossil]

Ok so I call “fopen” what happens there to make that work

[meager kernel]

Less than an hour

[scenic maple]

better than never

[proud moth]

ok
port udp 1 - runs whatever you want
port udp 2 - runs whatever you want
port udp 3 - runs whatever you want
port udp 4 - runs whatever you want
port udp 5 - runs whatever you want

[scenic maple]

correct

[meager kernel]

Lemme break that down for you

[molten bobcat]

Thats

[meager kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/break-dancing-gif-17724132266718964003

[molten bobcat]

Such a chatgpt response lmao

I was about to say

[scenic maple]

fopen opens files

its reads from a pointer i think

[molten bobcat]

He's asking how fopen works

[heady sage]

Lmao

[undone fossil]

Yeah what does it do

[molten bobcat]

Don't.. don't most things?

[undone fossil]

How do you get a file descriptor

[scenic maple]

well i tried

[undone fossil]

What is a file descriptor

Can a process get one directly or does it have to go via the kernel

[molten bobcat]

I think we're failing the interview

[scenic maple]

idk what it does
cause i never studied deep

[undone fossil]

Yeah sorry chat

[muted olive]

something that describes files

[scenic maple]

is joeevr for us

isnt it

[supple plume]

vro I know how to center a div without chatgpt

[molten bobcat]

This was question 1 and we're floored

[supple plume]

thatt's as far as I get

[molten bobcat]

Kek

[undone fossil]

Our CEO would in fact fail you

[scenic maple]

there is like 9 diff ways to center a div

[muted olive]

I guess directly though idk

[meager kernel]

Ik how to play video games
Any job for me?

[proud moth]

a file descriptor is just a FID instead of PID

[scenic maple]

now since i have failed can you tell us the answer

[undone fossil]

You any good?

[proud moth]

a process cannot get one directly

[molten bobcat]

I remember this feeling when I was applying for pentest jobs lol

Ain't for me

[meager kernel]

I'm 28K premier reading in CS2

I'm infact a nolifer

[undone fossil]

nah tbh our place just has very high hiring requirements

It’s very weird

[scenic maple]

i mean i would think it would tho

pay is hight too

[muted olive]

if it means dissecting linux I'm all for it

[undone fossil]

Same goes for windows

[proud moth]

would be amazing

[scenic maple]

do you guys use gnuc for linux?

[molten bobcat]

I'm not a dev so this just feels like a foreign language I can't force my mouth to make the sounds for

[undone fossil]

I had to explain what happens when you open a file in notepad in as much detail as possible

[meager kernel]

Dissect deez nuts

[muted olive]

i like windows more and have better knowledge of it's internals than linux

[undone fossil]

Same

[molten bobcat]

God

[proud moth]

yeah i would fail immediately

[undone fossil]

Also stuff like exception handling etc

Is fun

[prime crescent]

how does one acquire the knowledge of internals of a closed source system

[supple plume]

sometimes I feel like I know nothing, specially when it comes to low level

[molten bobcat]

I feel like some questions clients ask only get answered by in depth windows knowledge because they don't know what they're asking for

[molten bobcat]

It's not

[meager kernel]

Decompiler

[undone fossil]

Documentation and reverse engineering

Mostly documentation

[proud moth]

i would say this

1. i open notepad
2. the file gets opened by notepad

[scenic maple]

avg js soydev
||u arent alone||

[muted olive]

well. Memory is allocated for the process and it starts. CreateFile, QueryFileInformation, RegQueryKey and stuff like that

[supple plume]

time to git gud

[molten bobcat]

It really sucks because Microsoft doesn't document any of this

Or at least portions of it

[undone fossil]

Nah as in just the file open

They do

[molten bobcat]

Oh?

[heady sage]

Technically I fill those requirements but I kind of don’t want to do red teaming

[molten bobcat]

I was under the impression Microsoft internals is all "passed down knowledge"

[proud moth]

but honestly it's not a great question imo, you can get the answer by opening System informer and opening the file

[undone fossil]

It’s not red teaming lol

[meager kernel]

Time for me to go to sleep

[undone fossil]

It’s pure dev

[meager kernel]

It's 9:19

PM

Fuck me

[heady sage]

@undone fossil you should talk to @muted olive

[undone fossil]

Maybe I’m mostly playing about but like

[heady sage]

He’s amazing

[scenic maple]

i should read this book

[undone fossil]

I could point you in the right direction if you did wanna apply

[scenic maple]

can u tell us the stuff you would need to know
i probably wont apply but someone here might

[proud moth]

@molten bobcat here's my triple blanket setup

[molten bobcat]

You should invest in heating the home lol

[scenic maple]

thats not enough cover

[molten bobcat]

I keep my house cold but not below 68 lmao

[proud moth]

all my money is in a random ETF already it's too late

[supple plume]

my house is at 40F probably

[proud moth]

i hope to survive winter

[supple plume]

learn to like it

[molten bobcat]

Bruh

[meager kernel]

Use celcius
It's the right unit

[vestal sparrow]

Guys, has anyone faced payment issues while buying a subscription recently ? I’m trying to purchase the pro Labs subscription, but my card keeps getting declined again and again any solution or workaround?

[supple plume]

no fridge required

[proud moth]

fr fr

benefits

[meager kernel]

Stop using fahrenheit
Use celsius like an educated person

[neat cipher]

It's a great book

[proud moth]

beer is always cold

it's peak

[muted olive]

Procmon.exe

[molten bobcat]

Dumb question but you're sure the payment details for the card are correct?

[supple plume]

I wear a black tank top all year, when I go somewhere people ask me: WHAT ARE YOU GOIN TO BE WEARING ON SUMMER

HAHAH

[molten bobcat]

If still having issues I'd recommend chatting with support

[west lynx]

https://help.hackthebox.com/en/articles/5986762-contacting-htb-support

[neat cipher]

Contact support and/or your bank

[scenic maple]

also they are gone until new year i think

[proud moth]

bro is tank top tiger from one punch man confirmed

TANKO TOPPO TAIGA

[molten bobcat]

Some cards don't allow for online purchases without prior auth

[muted olive]

🪞

[vestal sparrow]

support on holiday and bank said all ok from our side 🙂

[molten bobcat]

Dan

G

Dang

[proud moth]

daaamn bro got some rizz

[undone fossil]

When I’m back on my pc, ping me in 5 mins pls

[scenic maple]

🫡 i will

[undone fossil]

Ty

[heady sage]

I’m nothing special, Mr Microsoft Driver Vuln researcher

[meager kernel]

@muted olive pass over some skills to me pls

[undone fossil]

Am dying in bed atm it’s joever

[molten bobcat]

Want anything from the store?

[heady sage]

You wanna hang out today or are you busy?

[proud moth]

marry vader, then do an hex bitwise sum of the two usernames

[undone fossil]

Yeah some gas station weed pls

[meager kernel]

Protection

[undone fossil]

Kill me

[gray wraith]

U have money on it?

[supple plume]

I can try headbutt your forehead if you want

[meager kernel]

https://tenor.com/view/armor-yacine-brinis-zbrush-artstation-gif-27255647

[molten bobcat]

They don't sell gas station weed here

[heady sage]

I’m a lesbian but Jo is very sweet

[undone fossil]

Nooooo

Hmm

[molten bobcat]

I'll get you whatever toxic nicotine vapes they sell though

[undone fossil]

Ooooo

[proud moth]

insane lore drop

[undone fossil]

Yeah get the one that looks like it’ll explode

[molten bobcat]

Now with Extra Shrapnel!

[undone fossil]

I want to lose my lower jaw

Ty

[young glen]

✅

[meager kernel]

People still vape in 2025/6 ???

[muted olive]

Okay CPTS holder

[molten bobcat]

See that's why we were enemies you're a lesbian

My natural enemy

[undone fossil]

This makes sense

[proud moth]

lmaooo

[muted olive]

double it and give it to the next person

[molten bobcat]

I'm basing this off nothing

[supple plume]

lets ping goblin

[proud moth]

RIPPPPPP

[supple plume]

@eternal mango I am back

[molten bobcat]

Imagine liking women. THE NERVE

[supple plume]

hahaha

[meager kernel]

I wanna make a joke but I should not
It will break my tuff guy persona

[molten bobcat]

Lmao

Never break character chat

[proud moth]

https://tenor.com/view/черный-gif-8284575235000460429

[meager kernel]

Must be tuff

[molten bobcat]

Going shopping with the fallout OST is fun

[muted olive]

https://tenor.com/l8PFhE38a0N.gif

[meager kernel]

Would fallout work on linux
I wonder

[molten bobcat]

Proton

[meager kernel]

It should work

[molten bobcat]

It does work

[proud moth]

this is you pwning a Windows driver

[muted olive]

real

[molten bobcat]

Personally played fallout 3 and New Vegas on my steam deck

Pro tip set the fps to 60

[meager kernel]

It has gold rating

[molten bobcat]

Setting it higher makes the engine more unstable

[meager kernel]

Good

[meager kernel]

Fair

[proud moth]

man im gonna buy a steam deck when this gas price situation goes away

gotta survive winter though