general

[rare monolith]

but thats me

[obtuse fern]

huh wha

[mystic harbor]

[rare monolith]

its better to understand everything clearly imo rather than rush

[obtuse fern]

make sure your gh notes are private

[rare monolith]

yeah i saw a guy get banned for that...

im not giving them to anyone

[proper raft]

1 module a day is cramming

😭✌️

I genuinely gotta hit like 2-3 modules a day if I wanna hit CPTS

[rare monolith]

i dunno man i just do what works for me

[jagged storm]

I wouldn't consider the number to be important. Some things take time, and everyone is different. Many of the modules are very happy to just let you copy/paste, and you should always make sure that you're fully understanding everything, instead of just happy to click to the next section/module. There's no shame in taking your time, and making sure you fully understand what the course is teaching you.

The guy who finishes a course in 3 months and the guy who finishes it in a year both get the same cert. The guy who didn't learn the content doesn't get anything, no matter how much time he spends

[rare monolith]

true

[supple plume]

Hi chat

[rare monolith]

also guys i strongly recommend doing some sort of a CTF or something similiar to that orsimulating a practical task related to the contents of the module that you have read

for example you can do easy cryptography CTFs on picoCTF after reading about obfuscation or subjects similar to that

[supple plume]

Hi @upbeat tangle

How is it going

I just grabbed a beer and a shawarma

[hoary cove]

I f up while doing AWS fortress

[rare monolith]

can you give me some ?

[quaint sun]

Do you mean sections?

[supple plume]

If you come here I can share

[proper raft]

No…

[hoary cove]

I found the URL Injection Vuln and by mistake I wrote a command which deleted the entire files in the web server

[rare monolith]

sounds tempting

[hoary cove]

I hope its not a problem and HTB will restart it

[proper raft]

Might as well no life it

[rare monolith]

do you live in the states 🤔

[supple plume]

Spain

[worthy cargo]

Espanol

[supple plume]

Español

[worthy cargo]

I don't know how to make this char with a tilde on it in linux

[rare monolith]

alright so i have 2857 kms to the capital of spain

[worthy cargo]

in windows you just alt + some numpad

[rare monolith]

i might makei t

[rare monolith]

you mean the

~~

[supple plume]

Composite key, n, ~

[supple plume]

Keep going

[worthy cargo]

I'm on linux dude

What fucking composite key

[supple plume]

Me too

[worthy cargo]

I got my keyboard mapped custom to shit

What the fuck is a composite key

[rare monolith]

the current gas prices might kill me

[worthy cargo]

I have never heard of this in my entire IT life

[supple plume]

Idk man a key to combine symbols and letters

[rotund forge]

That's the major bag alert

[supple plume]

I heard of it on kde config

[worthy cargo]

I don't know wht you're smoking man, but there is no such key

[supple plume]

Looked it up

[worthy cargo]

you have a custom key binding

[supple plume]

Aright

[worthy cargo]

is hat you mean

what

[rare monolith]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key

is that it

[supple plume]

I never said it was default

[supple plume]

Thanks

I misspelled

[rare monolith]

For instance, typing Compose followed by ~ and then n will insert ñ.

[worthy cargo]

Not every keyboard has that

plus I use Xmonad.

My keys are custom mapped in Xmonad to shit and beyond

[supple plume]

Skill issue

[worthy cargo]

I'd have to find a key and set it as the compose key in linux keyboard config

I don't have any free keys

so

[supple plume]

Alt gr is the easiest

[worthy cargo]

I got alt, meta, hyper, super

All 4 combos are taken up

[rare monolith]

too bad well , might aswell make your own keyboard there seems to be no solution for this one !

[worthy cargo]

capslock is super

I can show you

[supple plume]

Copy paste the ñ

[signal needle]

i can dm someone ? i want to learn python but no arrive .... stay stuck at littel program i dont know HOW GROW ....

[supple plume]

Show

[worthy cargo]

clear Lock
clear mod4

add mod3 = Hyper_L
add mod4 = Super_L Super_R

keycode 66 = Hyper_L
keycode 135 = Super_R

[supple plume]

So how do you write sql

[rare monolith]

holy shit i need image perms the thumbnails on my for you page are hilarius

[supple plume]

I can proxy

[worthy cargo]

        `additionalKeys`
        ([
              ((m .|. mod4Mask, key), windows $ f i)
            | (i, key) <- zip (myWorkspaces) ([xK_1 .. xK_9] ++ [xK_0, xK_minus, xK_equal])
            , (f, m) <- [(W.view, 0), (W.shift, shiftMask)]
        ] ++
        [
              ((m .|. mod4Mask, key), screenWorkspace sc >>= flip whenJust (windows . f))
            | (key, sc) <- zip [xK_F1..xK_F2] [0..]
            , (f, m) <- [(W.view, 0), (W.shift, shiftMask)]
        ]

[rare monolith]

if i get some good ones on the next refresh pull ill make sure to do that !

im mainly getting documentary slop now

[worthy cargo]

Like anyone else. Normally. SQL doesn't need the weird n char

[rare monolith]

aww

[signal needle]

i can dm someone ? i want to learn python but no arrive .... stay stuck at littel program i dont know HOW GROW .... (sorry to break youre discussion...)

[supple plume]

I will just imagine it's not comfortable

[slim saffron]

does somebody else's hackthebox pwnbox not working for them?

[supple plume]

Learning is by locking in into the subject

[worthy cargo]

I haven't had to mess with my configs in over 16 years. Everything just works exactly as I need/want it to work.

Have you heard of Xmonad?

Check it out.

[supple plume]

I heard you talking about it

[jagged storm]

https://tenor.com/view/embed-no-no-embed-megamind-megamind-meme-gif-25261934

[rare monolith]

you could either watch a youtube video and forget everything that you learned after 2 days or you could try to make some projects and when you stumble upon something that you don't know just find out the syntax through some kind of cheatsheet or AI if you must'

[supple plume]

I'm fine doing compose key stuff

[rare monolith]

im getting there

trust

[worthy cargo]

I just don't have a key on my keyboard I can assign as the compose key

No free keys.

Some of my other key binds

[signal needle]

project idea ? i wanted to create a bot to pwned a retired machine for fun bun i m noob on programming like print("supernoob")

[signal needle]

whats is ithat bro ?

[rare monolith]

https://www.inspiritai.com/blogs/ai-blog/python-project-ideas-100-projects-to-try-in-2025

this has some cool ones

[worthy cargo]

Haskell. Xmonad framework

You can create your custom window manager based on the Xmonad framework using Haskell

[rare monolith]

if you want to do projects oriented more to automation , tooling youre just gonna have to get an idea and try do somehow grow upon

[signal needle]

i want learn exploit devloppement ...

[rare monolith]

you find a interesting subject in cyber and you make a tool to automate some process sooo for example im making a automated wordlist generator that utulizes AI using python

[rare monolith]

claude can do it for you if you give it good prompts

[supple plume]

Nobody is stopping you

[supple plume]

I thought haskell was a programming language

[worthy cargo]

Xmonad framework is written in Haskell yes

[rare monolith]

holy

[supple plume]

I read after

[rare monolith]

thats like 20% of my arch keybinds

[supple plume]

Yo wbu what's your lore

[rare monolith]

lore you mean like how did i get on the server orr?

[supple plume]

Open question answer however you want

[obtuse fern]

My lore is i was the first to solve last year's April fools ctf

[rare monolith]

well im just a guy who is interested in tech in general i don't really do anything in-depth but when i get into one field of tech i reallyyyy stick to it before i find something new i stumbled upon cybersecurity not too long time ago and i wanna get to know things abt it before i move on to something completely random,

or i might just stay we shall see

[supple plume]

Cool

[rare monolith]

you reminded me that i have to do my daily picoCTF

[supple plume]

You're expert on fool stuff then

[worthy cargo]

Chiliundungamundungabunda

It's pronounced: Chili un dunga mundunga bunda

It's a made up south indian last name. I made it up 😄

[supple plume]

Certified April Fool Specialist

[obtuse fern]

Nah, it was a rehash of a certain osint challenge that you just needed to add _hell to

[supple plume]

That's a good certificate to put on linkeding tbh

On April 1st

[obtuse fern]

That was after rolling around the sphere 3 times

Stage one gave the key to stage 2

[supple plume]

Ah I have seen the sphere

But I couldn't see the whole ctf

[obtuse fern]

It was the hillside haven rehash

[rare monolith]

they added a whole new page of easy ctfs they have like 4k solves on avarage

might aswell speedrun them and do some medium ones

[obtuse fern]

It was rehashed because many people called it hellish

[supple plume]

So we got an annoying gigaping notification and called gardeners this year

[obtuse fern]

Yeah

Truly the dichotomy of discord

[supple plume]

The pattern is notorious 📉

[obtuse fern]

And htb

I think g0b vibe coded the sphere page

[supple plume]

Yes

He told me

That's how I could see it

[obtuse fern]

You could also get the key via view-source btw

Instead of rotating the sphere

[supple plume]

Reminds me to this discord clicking game

They have now

On the interface

.

[maiden anvil]

@zealous charm just remember anytime you drink a carbonated beverage
you are really drinking fungi farts!!!

[zealous charm]

This sounds like a perk

[zealous charm]

What if I force carbonate my beer with a CO2 tank and don’t use natural carbonation

[maiden anvil]

they had to harvest fungi farts for the CO2 tank

[jagged storm]

be a lot cooler if they didn't

[remote bolt]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5xXKHmL7fY0

[terse dirge]

Got a process injection poc for notepad working

[jagged storm]

Beat defender?

[obtuse fern]

Microsoft already knows about it

[cyan plume]

Hey im not sure if i should ask this here but i added my university email as my secondary email. Can i get benefits from doing this? i currently dont see any changes to my account in regards to discount/benefits

[rare monolith]

you can get a student subscription plan which allows you to essentially read all the tier 0-2 modules for free , also you get unlimited time for pwnbox

you get 5 job role paths worth of modules bassicly..

[obtuse fern]

Only on htb academy

[glad crystal]

So, I just got a crash course in BurpSuite.

Was able to transition past the writeup and use a constructor.constructor section in the block of code to achieve root. That was fun.

[quaint sun]

After adding your uni email, go to https://academy.hackthebox.com/app/billing, select "monthly" and you'll see the student plan available for HTB Academy.

There was talk of a Labs student plan in the Cube Talk today. No immediate plans but it's something they may do in coordination with other platform changes.

[cyan plume]

Ahh i see only for academy. i was working on the 'SillyEli' sherlock for the last week and im on the final two questions. I've just logged on to work on it and now requires VIP...

[azure remnant]

Do not decode this R2V0IHJpY2sgcm9sbGVkCk5vIHdheSB5b3UgZGVjb2RlZCB0aGlzIGxvbA==

[iron galleon]

Ok

[azure remnant]

Bet u did

[deep phoenix]

This is NOT base 64

[azure remnant]

It is

It is straight b64 to readable information

Dont decode it

[deep phoenix]

Blood does NOT understand sarcasm

[pliant pumice]

i decoded it, it says im the best person ever

[azure remnant]

Maybe yes but maybe u lied too

[lost loom]

guys i solved 3-4 machines, why it still telling me im a noob? 😔

[azure remnant]

Ahhhhh its the wind bro

[deep phoenix]

Because u are

[azure remnant]

U have to solve active ones

[pliant pumice]

solve 4-5 hard ones

active machines

[lost loom]

🥲

[deep phoenix]

🗣️

[obtuse fern]

If it was starting point; those dont count

[pliant pumice]

marcielee is lying they do count trust

🙂

trust me, do it.

[azure remnant]

I solved like 20 expired one not even retired and still scriptkid

[obtuse fern]

Only active machines rated easy-insane count

[pliant pumice]

marcielee lied agasin finish the starting point and you'll get omnicient

[azure remnant]

Im as script kiddie as it gets 🗣️ 🗣️

[deep phoenix]

🗣️ 🗣️

Bro found out base64 and now he takin down power grids

[lost loom]

the other ones are not free

[azure remnant]

Gonna mention u soon with the new badge

[deep phoenix]

I'm gonna be eating cereal while u do that

[azure remnant]

Deal

[jagged storm]

You only need free machines to rank up

[zealous charm]

Wait until he learns about ROT26

[deep phoenix]

I'm gonna be eating cereal while u do that

[azure remnant]

Actually paid ones dont rank up

[deep phoenix]

I'm gonna be eating cereal while u do that

[azure remnant]

D

[glad crystal]

And, how many have you solved?

[deep phoenix]

How's l1 cache looking lil dawg

[glad crystal]

Still asking basic hardware questions?

[deep phoenix]

That apparently u cant answer

[glad crystal]

That's not a flex, dude.

[deep phoenix]

Its not

That's what makes u not understanding computer architecture basics so interesting

[azure remnant]

Its not the wind this time 🥀

[glad crystal]

You really think I don't understand L1i and L1d when I'm almost done with a B.S., bro? All you've done is make yourself look foolish.

[deep phoenix]

We can hop into vc rn and I'll ask u extremely basic computer architecture or os concepts

Talking bottom of the barrel

[azure remnant]

Relax guys

[deep phoenix]

Cant after dude said in lightyears away from professional work in cyber security

Im*

[glad crystal]

The egotistical behavior is laughable, man. I'm busy doing boxes on HTB and labs on NCL. I have better shit to do than prove my knowledge to you lol

[rare monolith]

let me get my popcorn 🍿

[azure remnant]

Everybody learns to benefit himself

[deep phoenix]

I dont have an ego I've said I need to learn more

[azure remnant]

Pls nobody mention any mods lol

[deep phoenix]

Ur the 1 who came after my knowledge and said you are a 95th percentile in terms of knowledge in the field

[glad crystal]

Correct. We all do. It's literally improbable to know everything about cybersecurity, pen testing, and overall computer science.

[deep phoenix]

The only point I'm making is I can ask you extremely basic concepts about networking os and COA and u would fail to answer them because u made the mistake of not spending your time understanding low level concepts

[glad crystal]

This is why experts usually specialize in certain scripting languages and learning paths.

[deep phoenix]

Asking you what L1 cache is divided into isnt expert level knowledge

That's asking you to pay attention in a 101 level cs class

[zealous charm]

[rancid snow]

@deep phoenix youre obsessing too much over a strangers knowledge than your own. its pretty cringe

[glad crystal]

And that's why it's even more laughable that you used this as the cornerstone for some "expert-level" pop quiz

[rancid snow]

quiz less and read more

[deep phoenix]

If u read the messages yesterday u will understand the context

[zealous charm]

I came here to hack, not read!

[rancid snow]

bro I was there

[jagged storm]

Remember when the server had moderation? Good times.

[deep phoenix]

Ok so ur aware he was originally the one coming at my knowledge saying I'm lightyears away from professional work while simultaneously saying he'd kn the top 5% of his field

[rugged dune]

https://tenor.com/view/i-hear-you-julius-jones-caesar-kingdom-business-s1e4-gif-27463253

[deep phoenix]

I never claimed to be knowledgable in the field in fact I've said many times I need to learn more

[glad crystal]

He's just mad that I told him he has a long way to go before he enters a cyber career.

@deep phoenix Go find a help desk job, bro. You have to walk before you can run. What I said wasn't an insult, it was just basic facts.

[rugged dune]

Man everyone out partying and i am seating here with my cat

[rancid snow]

you are lightyears away from professional work if you keep antagonizing people on the server

[jagged storm]

party with your cat

[deep phoenix]

Again zero the offer to jump into vc and I can ask I basic concept still stands

Networking OS COA

[rancid snow]

why should they care to prove anything to you though?

thats the issue

[glad crystal]

Less arguing, more reading. I'm going back to my box.

[rugged dune]

brilliant

[deep phoenix]

Because he was the 1 coming after me

[rancid snow]

so what

[rugged dune]

Man send us mldv discord link

[rare monolith]

what box are you doing 🤔 ?

[rancid snow]

grow thicker skin then

[glad crystal]

Refer to my help desk comment to clear up any confusion.

[deep phoenix]

U would assume ud be willing to defend your knowledge against someone who is so far out of reach of professional aork

[rugged dune]

Couldn't find it or ma just lazy

[deep phoenix]

I have thick skin

[jagged storm]

It's got a gatekeeper. You have to have a subscription.

[deep phoenix]

Hence when he told me I'm studying wrong and will never find professional work I dont take his opinion seriously, but I will offer him the chance to prove it

[rancid snow]

youre resuming an argument from yesterday. Clearly not

[rugged dune]

[deep phoenix]

I'm not he again is the 1 that initated it

I was just talking to a couple people in general

[rugged dune]

That even more racist than 0xbr0

[jagged storm]

Yeah... They manually approve each member, and it takes days lol

[rugged dune]

They so gatekeeping man

[glad crystal]

I'm just knocking out starting point on this account since I haven't done it yet and I am not using my old account. I haven't done any active machines quite yet.

Just finished Bike and I had to tweak the existing burpsuite payload to work because of a version discrepancy. Writeup is probably a little old.

[rugged dune]

Selling people byovd

[azure remnant]

AI is never replacing humans

Im 100% sure now

[jagged storm]

Only $450 for lifetime access

[obtuse fern]

https://giphy.com/gifs/brad-pitt-inglorious-basterds-damn-good-deal-hlfXIRjozpvTvYFfOt

[rare monolith]

nicee i hope you can move onto active machines soon and get some stuff going

[rugged dune]

I wouldn't do mldv for that price

I had look at the connect it not really worth that price

[azure remnant]

He was here all the time watching

[deep phoenix]

Zero my offer for you to prove entry level netowkting COA or OS concepts still stands and always stands let me know if you ever care to take me up on that offer would love to ask a few things

[glad crystal]

It definitely won't in cyber. Huge issue with it increasing the attack surface and it's slightly impractical when you consider systems thinking and how many things interconnect.

[rancid snow]

honestly I bet the server is significantly more pleasant as a result though lmao

[obtuse fern]

all the starting point labs are pretty old/outdated (to a degree) they need a bit of a tune up

[rugged dune]

Gaaaatekeepers

[jagged storm]

It gets updated, and the discord is a nice benefit

[azure remnant]

Thats not what i meant but anyways

[rugged dune]

I have a foot there 🙂

[jagged storm]

For sure! Even job related stuff.

[glad crystal]

I would be happy to submit writeups on the ones that have evolved. I am saving the info for personal record, anyway.

[obtuse fern]

i just finished eating a cheese steak sub; but yes i am omnipresent, even when I don't want to be

[obtuse fern]

I believe that some of the team that works on that kinda stuff did an informal poll/ask about the labs

[rancid snow]

AI def has a use, just 80% of AI tech bros use it wrong and have just as much of a warped perception of its capabilities as die hard AI haters

[rugged dune]

It just stupid that they ask u to get an approval first before doing exam

And taking course

[jagged storm]

Marcie, there's no way this troll hasn't hit the perma threshold yet - what's up lol

[obtuse fern]

Can AI replicate the indomitable human spirit?

[rugged dune]

It not that serious bro

[rapid badger]

Time for the hourly AI discussion

[worthy cargo]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mYp0pGT8KdA

Dude

[obtuse fern]

idk, hackster was broken like all of yesterday

[worthy cargo]

The fucking eyebrows

WTF

[rancid snow]

Gemini killed itself when I gave it a validation job the other night

[rugged dune]

Bro please no AI started that course and understood nothing

If i can't understand ai , ai can't understand me

[glad crystal]

I see. Tried to post on the forum but it says it's in staff only mode?

[azure remnant]

No bro he cant be blamed, he really enjoyed that steak

[obtuse fern]

the htb forums have been deprecated for well over a year at this point

in favor of the discord

[glad crystal]

Ohhhhhh

[obtuse fern]

tl;dr reasoning: Not enough internet janitors to monitor

[glad crystal]

Can I post a Pic of the working payload for Bike on here?

[rugged dune]

They leak so much stuff there

[obtuse fern]

#starting-point

[jagged storm]

That, too lol

[rugged dune]

Rat did u take the cert?

Of mldv

Aka which one

[jagged storm]

Going through the malware development course. Thinking of maybe OSED after

[rugged dune]

U still didn't take the exm

[jagged storm]

It is hard to do this while juggling homelessness lol

[rugged dune]

A colleague took it and he doesn't know what BYOVD is

[jagged storm]

I didn't think it had one? Like, isn't it just a certificate, rather than a cert?

[rancid snow]

well

I love ya, but what do you think cert is short for

[rugged dune]

It u taking it not me

[rugged dune]

Certipy

[jagged storm]

Yeah, it's not a real certification. No test. If you click 'complete' on all the modules, you just get a certificate that says that you finished the course

There are some custom challenges and such

[rugged dune]

Wtf?

So just pay click completed passed?

[rancid snow]

it does sound like a difficult thing to actually have an exam for

[rugged dune]

I understand why the he doesn't even know what BYOVD is ..

[jagged storm]

Yeah, it's more for learning/networking

[rugged dune]

Would actually have more worth if it actually had an exam , aka like htb EDR evasion techniques

[rugged dune]

Thanks for bringing that to me xD

[rancid snow]

Yeah I dont disagree. it just sounds like a difficult thing to design. Like sure you could do edr evasion but there is a tad bit more to maldev than just evasion techniques

[jagged storm]

I've been begging for even a maldev channel for ages, and HTB won't do it

[glad crystal]

Thanks for the heads up

[jagged storm]

We got the one kinda maldev module with CAPE

But it's mostly a joke

[rugged dune]

Which one?

[rugged dune]

I asked some questions in red teaming channel but never answered

[jagged storm]

Uhh.. i think it was like 'introduction to Windows evasion'

[rugged dune]

I mean most of the time and 90% of the work in Malware dev is trying to evade AV&EDR ..

[jagged storm]

Red team channel is just #general2 but also just dead

[rugged dune]

Yeah yeah that one i saw too , was some goof things as "beginner in maldv"

A new module on windows low something came up it's actually better than it

[jagged storm]

The evasion module is super basic, though. It gives you a loader, teaches you how to use it, and essentially sets you up to be a script kiddie - doesn't explain the how or why, and is probably already sig'd

[rugged dune]

I had a look into it last weekend in enterprise but didn't complete it yet , there was alot of information

[rugged dune]

Yeah yeah i went through the whole module and even posted a blog on my website about it using that course and others to come up with a perfect working method

Though you right were just basics , but maldv also don't teach the BYOVD part or at least he didn't know what is it
I find it the most interesting thing honestly

[jagged storm]

I had been studying all this and then stopped for a long time, around doing indirect syscalls, and trying to write some custom shellcode

Catching back up now, and even though the course doesn't have everything, I really need structure

[rancid snow]

structure is nice until you have to stretch your wings

[jagged storm]

I want to at least get a project built, to show that I'm still in the game, so I can apply around. Still on the fence with OSED

[rugged dune]

Actually i found something very interesting during my research

Using NT direct calls with EnumpageFilesW and writing the shellcode in the callback doesn't get detected by the EDR

And if you interested in building i would suggest GO i built my MW with it , it's so fancy and easy to deal with

[turbid goblet]

ok bros time to eat 20 taco bell tacos and hack a box

[rugged dune]

Nah man did that in corona am grinding now

[turbid goblet]

wdym

this is grinding

[jagged storm]

C or death

[turbid goblet]

rat go back to diogenes

[jagged storm]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-zone-of-zone-out-cat-cat-zoned-out-zoned-out-cat-gif-4284444198360174529

[rugged dune]

Ah man C is marketed in every Mw development but the goats always go with those msi installers and go obfuscation

[jagged storm]

I'd rather do the obfuscation, than deal with the overhead lol

[rugged dune]

There is a whole repo for it found it after grinding full week against a very famous edr with ai protection

[rugged dune]

That the thing i mean it's too simple with GO

If you want hell try rust

[glad crystal]

Lol

[rugged dune]

https://github.com/burrowers/garble

[terse dirge]

No. It used a payload from metasploit I had to turn off defender to test it but I can definitely make my own payload for it

[jagged storm]

DM me and I can get you tearing that shit up in minutes

[deep phoenix]

Pause

[inland lantern]

beer

[rugged dune]

it just funny the marketing of those stupid expensive EDR's that they have AI detection and bla bla , when you low code see everything it simply just hooking ntdll ..
just by simply unhooking it and running a clean ntdll EDR is gone .
Also if you have a tool that it not mimikatz and need to be interactive you can simply dumb the hashes without even being caught

I wanted to report it but then i saw " no bug bounty "
ok good luck wasting my time to write a full poc and explaination for 5 hours for nothing

[hoary cove]

Yoo 🗿

[inland lantern]

yoo

[hoary cove]

How are you guys doing?

[rancid snow]

yeah friend got burned on an applocker bug because he didnt see that Microsoft doesnt pay for bugs that beat defensive security measures.

which is crazy to me, means theres no point to sharing publicly any evasive measures you discover outside of getting name rep

[rugged dune]

against one of the most powerful edrs lol

[rancid snow]

ye I believe it

[rugged dune]

imagine being a company that get paid tons of money for protection people and don't have a bounty for that

saw the https://processhacker.net/ they have a malware served as process hacker lol they use msi builder and there is no edr that detects it

[deep phoenix]

Anyone watching FIDE candidates?

[rancid snow]

I have some friends that specialize in evasion and theyll shit on public evasive methods and I have to constantly remind them that theres no point breaking out the hydrogen bomb when you can just stab the coughing baby

[maiden anvil]

I saw some drama someone got in trouble for taking a selfie or something

[deep phoenix]

I did not see that

Have u been watching the games themselves?

[maiden anvil]

no sadly havent had much time outside of work

[deep phoenix]

Ay man u should watch theres a new guy first candidates and hes leading by a point

Javokhir sindarov

Dudes beat hikaru and caruana is 4.5/5 right now

[maiden anvil]

aight im watching on agadmator rn

that sounds pretty interesting

[deep phoenix]

Yeah interesting to see if carlsen comes back to classical since last time he was actually interested is when alireza was the youngest player to cross the 2700 barrier IIRC

[maiden anvil]

impressive, edrs are usually pretty good at detecting cobalt strike and nothing else
so seeing a clean beacon brings back fond memories

getting my words mixed up

[deep phoenix]

And with the way sindarov is playing hes what people though alireza would be

[maiden anvil]

what happened to the butt beads guy

[deep phoenix]

He wasnt high enough in fide rankings to make candidates

Hes good but hes not top 8 good

[maiden anvil]

wild considering all of the trash he was talking last year

[deep phoenix]

Ay man to be fair hes made huge progress since the scandal

Last I checked he was top 30

[maiden anvil]

hey thats pretty good

[deep phoenix]

It is

Hoping to see him eventually play in the candidates but he has to continue to improve

[rugged dune]

developed a tool recently took me long times but i mixed every evasion technique and some i disovered myself during research , basically any raw payload can be delivered and doesn't get detected (yes even metasploit raw )

and EDR don't want to pay me for those nights

[rancid snow]

tell no1

use em for clients

[rugged dune]

that what am doing lol i will probably release it to the public as a research in the future , but it would be a very big problem for them because there is actually no solution for it as every build is full new fingerprint ( i was an ass and automated the whole process to get fully new everything )

[latent oak]

I’m building a fuzz lab

Having fun learning about afl++

It will create a new container for each “campaign” and will keep compiled binaries, dictionaries, config, and output in persistent storage. I’m interested to see what it can do

[jagged storm]

Raw? I mean, after unhooking, I guess yeah

[pliant pumice]

does anyone have any CTF boxes here that does pcap analysis? need to prepare and play with it for something

[sharp shuttle]

what do you mean

pcap for the challenge or wireshark installed?

[jagged storm]

Like you want pcaps?

[pliant pumice]

yeah

need to play with wireshark for a bit

got a tournament soon tryna cover everything

[sharp shuttle]

why cant you just sniff your own environment?

[pliant pumice]

actually i didnt even think about that

wow im so dumb

[jagged storm]

https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/

[pliant pumice]

but then i guess

[rancid snow]

afl++ is really fun

[jagged storm]

This site has tons of content for it

[pliant pumice]

online s like rat just sent actually has one with what i need to look out for

[pliant pumice]

thanks

[jagged storm]

There's probably Sherlocks on htb you could use, too, but malware traffic analysis is probably easier to just grab and go

[pliant pumice]

yeah

i got this to do for the entry stage

on a tournament

it's in person

im a go for malware analysis sherlocks

probs gonna make us look into a compromised environment likely

[deep phoenix]

Do you have example problems for PCAP

[pliant pumice]

nope

[deep phoenix]

Interesting

[rancid heron]

having command line basics next to pcap analysis is funny

[iron galleon]

yall want some peanut m&ms

go buy them then

lmao

[jagged storm]

https://tenor.com/view/paul-allen-willem-dafoe-patrick-bateman-american-psycho-chad-uv-uk-ondi-gif-27368842

[iron galleon]

im running low on cash

i need to conserve

wheres the tournament

[turbid goblet]

wear a CEH shirt

[iron galleon]

so i can rob you

we'll see

[glad crystal]

Alright, time to show up to the tournament to look for a fella with a CPTS t-shirt and iced datejust rolley to put a face to this person.

Just kidding.

[jagged storm]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-shoo-away-gif-13653609800890535042

[iron galleon]

LMAO

[glad crystal]

[jagged storm]

Just doxx yourself, before they can do it

[glad crystal]

1,000 people show up with CPTS T-shirts and iced datejust rolleys

[iron galleon]

it cant be that serious its not like u ran a market

[glad crystal]

I still want to go to DefCon. Haven't ever been.

[iron galleon]

anyone wanna send me 3.5k to fund my defcon trip

[glad crystal]

It might be a couple years but I am going to be relocating by Vegas eventually

[iron galleon]

imma gamble some of it

just to lyk

[glad crystal]

Last machine and I'm done with tier 1

[iron galleon]

i might grind machines until i get pro hacker for like 2 days or sm maybe less

i been doing academy

did an easy box today pretty fast

damn

[glad crystal]

Gotta know when to walk away

[deep phoenix]

🗣️

If u wanna be a boss u gotta pay the price

[iron galleon]

rainbet?

ah

[jagged storm]

But think of how close your are to winning!

[deep phoenix]

🗣️

[maiden anvil]

https://tenor.com/view/wu-tang-gif-23580271

[deep phoenix]

Tomorrow is national depo day

[jagged storm]

https://tenor.com/view/money-rain-gif-20569896

[glad crystal]

You guys like my OSRS emojis?

[jagged storm]

https://tenor.com/view/bye-cat-meow-chat-gif-14778852254694362862

[sharp shuttle]

Love em

[glad crystal]

Just got the Wonderland badge.

Think I might as well just start on tier 2 tonight. Get it out of the way.

[rotund forge]

https://youtu.be/ZALGt77oeN0?si=_hKDBXzRkgOpMVnc

[half sequoia]

Ayyy I’m doing well thanks for asking. Had a big break, just been chilling off the radar since lol. How’re you doing tho man?

https://tenor.com/view/hug-bros-bro-code-dude-bro-hug-gif-15039924

@warped plank who trusted this man with perms

[warped plank]

It was a social engineering engagement.

[half sequoia]

you always were a charmer

[warped plank]

Except I only seem to charm men.

[deep phoenix]

[latent oak]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cameo-jerry-trainor-Tkq6CBV41XM2EyUZUr

[sharp shuttle]

Is that spencer from icarly

[deep phoenix]

Dude fell off hard

[sharp shuttle]

I think its rude as hell to say someone fell off

I respect the fact they even make it for however long that is

[turbid goblet]

ppl who say ppl fell off but was never up themselves

[sharp shuttle]

Just contributing to a negative news cycle

[lethal ermine]

Im a developer that toyed around with HTB for about a year, how is the kali MCP support with getting it to run automated scan and pentesting for you with say Ollama

[deep phoenix]

I think ur not understanding what I'm saying

[sharp shuttle]

"Dude feel off hard because he makes cameos"

[deep phoenix]

It's in regards to his appearance not his career assuming that gif was him

No.

That's not what I'm saying

[sharp shuttle]

His looks?..

Dude its been 20 years

You are obsessed with looks

[deep phoenix]

I'm aware

[turbid goblet]

bro mogs u what are u talking ab lol

[deep phoenix]

I'd mog this dude to Narnia and back lol

[turbid goblet]

im assuming thats u in ur pfp?

gl

[deep phoenix]

😂

Gold

[sharp shuttle]

are you one of those feminized men who has completely internalized the female gaze and advocate that your life style solely revolves around attracting females?

[deep phoenix]

No because you realize early on that's boring and has no substance

[sharp shuttle]

Are you saying you acknowledge that attracting females is harder than ever due to technology and politics then?

[deep phoenix]

For most yes

[turbid goblet]

just go to a club

[deep phoenix]

This works very well if you are attractive

[turbid goblet]

ppl go to clubs specifically to hook up with someone

[deep phoenix]

If you arent your gonna end up getting played

You're

[sharp shuttle]

Do you think "mid" people are not worthwhile of your time and attention?

[deep phoenix]

No?

[sharp shuttle]

Then your previous statement is contradictory

[deep phoenix]

It isnt

[sharp shuttle]

Why would you end up getting played then?

[deep phoenix]

Because your drawing some character in your head about what I think based upon a singular half serious statement

[deep phoenix]

I wouldnt

[sharp shuttle]

I have listened to you enough to form a pretty generalized opinion that I think is based in reality

[deep phoenix]

If I were to guess though most dudes would in a nightlife setting

[deep phoenix]

I mean think what u want dude I'm telling you in what you just said about me viewing average people as beneath me is wrong

[sharp shuttle]

Would you say that to be successful in nightlife you have to destroy your body and neurotically obsess about your looks?

[deep phoenix]

No but you certainly need to be genetically predisposed to attractive features

[turbid goblet]

have u been to a club

[sharp shuttle]

I will ask one more thing. Are you under 25?

[deep phoenix]

Yes

[deep phoenix]

You can take a guess in your head

[sharp shuttle]

I would say you are freshly 22 or 23

[deep phoenix]

If that's the guess u want to take

[obtuse fern]

If you define "success" as "getting with" someone you are attracted to, then you are categorically objectifying whomever it is you're attracted to. Success could just be that you had some fun drinking or partying. Some define success as not waking up with a gnarly hangover

[deep phoenix]

I define success contextually

[obtuse fern]

well the conversation is contextually around nightlife or did you forget that

[deep phoenix]

If u scroll up to what I've said before I cant remember the exact convo but It involved brathadair and i said that you should look for a singular woman

[turbid goblet]

once u reach 25+ u aint ever gonna succeed not getting a hangover unless u go home at 8pm

[obtuse fern]

cool, that doesn't change my statement

[turbid goblet]

they hit hard

[latent oak]

Haha

[deep phoenix]

No but it is to paint a clearer picture of what I've stated as a good way of living

[latent oak]

I have one beer, get sleepy, go night night

[obtuse fern]

i'll give you a bit of help with how to determine if context matters: Does context change what the statement means or refers to, if not then context doesn't matter

[lime trout]

bruh

[deep phoenix]

I'm against night life in general but recognize that there are 2 seperate goals from dating compared to night life

[deep phoenix]

This is ambiguous could you elaborate

[obtuse fern]

how is it ambiguous lmfao

[latent oak]

He’s a chatty Cathy

[sharp shuttle]

hehe root

[deep phoenix]

Because you didnt tag a message

[obtuse fern]

if the context changes the meaning of the statement it matters; if it doesn't then context doesn't mean shit

[deep phoenix]

Yea and context here clearly matters

[obtuse fern]

didn't know i had to tag a message when we're actively having a conversation

[lime trout]

same 😭

yet im under 25

[latent oak]

https://tenor.com/view/kathy-snl-weekend-update-ack-cartoon-gif-16871044

[sharp shuttle]

Emma took offense for some reason to that question

[lime trout]

cause i feel old

yet young

[deep phoenix]

You tried to box me in or at least implied that my view on success is what happens in night life I'm saying that is wrong

[turbid goblet]

dont worry

it gets worse

[lime trout]

going out is boring after like, 19

[obtuse fern]

Did i mention you or state your name?

[deep phoenix]

Success in night life vs success in life are 2 seperate things

[latent oak]

Lol

[obtuse fern]

no

then i didn't box anyone in

[deep phoenix]

It was clearly directed at me

[obtuse fern]

No, it wasn't

you're not the center of attention mr edgy pfp

we are well aware of the cretin that is your pfp

[deep phoenix]

Clearly I am

[obtuse fern]

and honestly you know what

[deep phoenix]

It seems every where I go I'm the center of attention

[obtuse fern]

emma, shout at me later for this

[turbid goblet]

my cortisol is spiking

[deep phoenix]

Go for it bro

[latent oak]

Jesus, he never shuts his yap…

[lime trout]

same, bro same

[sharp shuttle]

I think its important to impart onto you my anecdote here

Nicholas Fuentes, I used to be a very charming man and now I am a arguably quite fat man. I have had no issue pulling the same women in both stages of my life

[deep phoenix]

Its what I do backspace

[deep phoenix]

I'm not nick dawg

[lime trout]

there is also more to life then women

[sharp shuttle]

As far as i am concerned you are

[obtuse fern]

Anyway

[lime trout]

be a good person, have a good personality

[obtuse fern]

took out the trash

sr mods can shout at me about it some other time

[cloud rapids]

Morning everyone new here👋🏻

[obtuse fern]

i was tired of seeing that cretin's face in chat

[latent oak]

Yeesh

[turbid goblet]

the goat

[latent oak]

I have had him muted for the last 3 days

[obtuse fern]

not to mention it sends a message that hackthebox is ok with individuals like that

[latent oak]

Ignored rather

[obtuse fern]

and I don't know if that's the brand image that wants to be accepted

[latent oak]

It makes me leave

[lime trout]

no

[turbid goblet]

i +1 the decision and im pretty sure everyone else does lmoa

[latent oak]

I was trying to be nice… at first

[obtuse fern]

he was directed to change his pfp several times

and it comes to a point where it's just unnacceptable

[latent oak]

Something about his pfp made me want to punch him

[obtuse fern]

i mean

that cretin does have a punchable face (iykyk)

[turbid goblet]

oh i thought that was him

[obtuse fern]

dude

[latent oak]

I don’t know who Nick Fuentes is and I don’t care to… i think he’s one of those man-o-sphere morons

[cloud rapids]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-facepalm-disappointed-angry-gif-12168336

[sharp shuttle]

ding ding ding

[obtuse fern]

there'd be absolutely no way that the ACTUAL cretin that is Nick Fuentes would have held off this long with Brath's line of questioning not to mention the multiple people in here that are openly muslim

[turbid goblet]

oh i see now

i didnt know who nick fuentes was until now i meant

[obtuse fern]

like he'd have outed himself way sooner

[sharp shuttle]

Nick is the new Steven Crowder

I swear once you see one you see them cycle out

Closeted gay men btw

[obtuse fern]

same shit different face

[turbid goblet]

i stay as far away from politics as possible so im pretty proud of myself i didnt know that guy

[obtuse fern]

must be nice to be able to avoid politics

[sharp shuttle]

You should never watch a poltical commentator in general its just straight well poisoning

[obtuse fern]

well... yeah

pol comms just regurgitate whatever head of their movement says

this goes for any side

[latent oak]

Politics? This guy isn’t a politician… at best he’s an “influencer”, no?

[obtuse fern]

political commentator

not politician

commenting on current political affairs with whatever inane bullshit that they can come up with; x happens -- well it must be the fault of y, obviously (no proof)

[latent oak]

Oh, didn’t know

[obtuse fern]

they generally do buddy buddy with politicians though

[latent oak]

Well, I try to avoid racists and bigots as much as I can…

It’s getting harder to

[maiden anvil]

less politics and more hacking

[latent oak]

Exacfly

I’m excited… my PoC fuzz-lab is up and running

[maiden anvil]

what fuzzer are you running? Im setting stuff up in my proxmox lab rn

[latent oak]

Got 3 streams running in parallel

[maiden anvil]

literally building a fuzzer host this weekend

[latent oak]

afl++

[lethal ermine]

Dang you guys are getting deep in #general I got my 16GB VRAM recognized by nvidia-smi and hashcat im gonna test a rockyou password with OWASP params for Argon2 and see the speed. I will get around to the MCP server for executing commands.

[maiden anvil]

ok interesting, I was wondering if it was gonna be some custom llvm or borla machine or w/e the hell they're called

[latent oak]

2 on kali, and one on podman on my M4 pro

[maiden anvil]

I say borla cuz I like cars

[latent oak]

I’m just learning about it the last couple of days

[bitter glen]

Hey, is there a channel for issues. My machines wont spawn...

[latent oak]

I was trying to use LLM to run semgrep and other tools, but I’ve abandoned that approach

[glossy cipher]

Hello! Anyone having issues with spawing a machine? I'm getting error "Failed to spawn machine on the Dedicated server. Please try again."

[latent oak]

Now it’s a particular set of skills

[maiden anvil]

homebrewer sent me these a couple of months ago, HTH 👍 : https://x.com/thedawgyg/status/2015428244816732325
https://x.com/thedawgyg/status/2018119186476667308

probably nothing new for you tbh

[latent oak]

My X account is broken and I can’t be bothered to fix it

[maiden anvil]

plenty of x viewers out there

[latent oak]

I can’t see that post… what is it?

[maiden anvil]

fuzzing guide

[latent oak]

I’m on my phone and I’m already in bed 🙂

Oh

[turbid goblet]

backspace

[maiden anvil]

yeah absolutely no pressure to read anything

just sharing

[turbid goblet]

is this ur meme

why does the top right logo look like ur pfp

[latent oak]

It’s all new to me… I’ll read it tomorrow… can you dm it to me so I don’t lose it?

[maiden anvil]

sure np

they're not particularly deep

[latent oak]

@turbid goblet hilarious

[maiden anvil]

the good stuff is 20 links deep on github somewhere

[latent oak]

But not me… my pfp was drawn by a buddy back in 2005 or so

Based on a pic of me back then

[turbid goblet]

lmao saw it on reddit rn and it looked familiar

[latent oak]

Back in the IRC and Teamspeak days

I used to hang in #2600ca

[obtuse fern]

no, as there is no official HTB support on the discord, you'll have to reach out to support on the website; they do work on the weekends, albeit at a lower capacity

[latent oak]

Anyone still read 2600? I see they have a kindle version now

[fathom sable]

Hii, I have a problem trying to spawn the machine "Failed to spawn machine on the Dedicated server. Please try again." and it doesnt work, im connected with openvpn tcp/udp. What can I do?

[dense turtle]

supp guys

[dense turtle]

any problem with vpn? cant spawn darkzero

[lethal ermine]

40 minutes to run through rockyou against argon2 with OWASP default parameters on 16GB VRAM. Thats seems quite fast. Onto ollama thanks for listening haha

[lean mesa]

Same, #general message etc

[terse dirge]

Omg these picked onions are so good

[dense turtle]

oh, thanks

https://tenor.com/view/lizard-lizard-lizard-lizard-tom-the-lizard-hoppers-hoppers-pixar-gif-18247620511221215378

[lean mesa]

That means we have time to do some academy

[latent oak]

Pickled onions are OP

I also like pickled turnip

[dense turtle]

true, but im not in mood for academy rn tbh, meeh

[terse dirge]

I've never tried that before

[latent oak]

It’s really good in a shawarma

[lean mesa]

Same 🙁

[latent oak]

Mmmmm… hungry

[dense turtle]

what should we pwn then?

[lean mesa]

We need to touch grass now

[latent oak]

That was the other day… we gardened

[proper raft]

Jokes on you

[dense turtle]

I’d actually go touch some water rn, even though it’s night, I’d go to the beach for a dip, I swear.

[proper raft]

I have to run through like 30 HTB modules until the CPTS exam dear god how am I gonna do this

Lordy lord please save me

[proper raft]

What’s up man

[turbid goblet]

coffee

[lean mesa]

What a lucky man 🙁

[lean mesa]

https://tenor.com/view/wachipiolas-falin-falin-touden-sere-moment-dungeon-meshi-gif-13190531109818443105

[dense turtle]

supp, all good, wbu?

[proper raft]

Horrendous man I have a deadline for CPTS and at the rate I’m prob not gonna hit it

By the end of June I wanna take CPTS

[winged marsh]

is anyone else having trouble spawning servers

[dense turtle]

not really, dont have car rn, fixing

[vale tangle]

same here

[dense turtle]

pro labs every day bro

[sweet yoke]

ProLabs not spawning either after the daily reset. What gives?

[proper raft]

Oh dear god I wanna attempt FULLHOUSE so bad

[winged marsh]

awesome

somebody forgot to feed the server hamster

[proper raft]

FULLHOUSE,Dante, maybe Rasta if I get in deep

[terse dirge]

Nice. I've also never had shawarma before

[proper raft]

They found a spider in their server racks

[proper raft]

You’re missing out man

[latent oak]

Try it sometime! It’s delicious

[proper raft]

One good shawarma is all it takes to change your life

[sweet yoke]

Are you kidding me? Shouldn't they have Janitors for this

[iron galleon]

yall fellas gotta try this thing called a mcchicken

[latent oak]

Beef shawarma

Or lamb

[proper raft]

Htb is a group of hackers not janitors

[winged marsh]

chicken

[proper raft]

Duh!

[latent oak]

Chicken can be dry

[winged marsh]

ever heard of osmows? it might be just a canadian thing

i dont know

i like their shawarmas

[proper raft]

Is that the uh

Salt?

[latent oak]

Osmows is canadian

[winged marsh]

wdym salt

[sweet yoke]

I'm honestly laughing out loud here if the outage is caused by freaking spiders 😄

[proper raft]

I mean that’s what happened with Fortnite I’m pretty sure

[latent oak]

We have one in my town… but I prefer Boustan

[proper raft]

I’m heading to apple bees right now

[winged marsh]

never heard of boustan

[latent oak]

Another shawarma chain, based out of Montreal

[proper raft]

Actually I kinda wanna go to chiles they don’t really have stuff at apple bees

[latent oak]

But we have a couple here in New Brunswick

[iron galleon]

I love crunching on Metformin

[normal wyvern]

any htb staff online? I'm trying to spawn my machines for the exam but it never does spawn, shows the progress bar then resets

[proper raft]

You’re in Nj Too?

Lmfao

[latent oak]

lol

[winged marsh]

happening to everyone rn

[proper raft]

That sounds horrendous lmfao

Being mid exam and you can’t do shi cause the server is down

[normal wyvern]

fr? guess I'll wait :(

[iron galleon]

why does my za smell sweet

i think i have diabetes

[latent oak]

@winged marsh nice to meet another canuck… it’s usually just me and Emma round here

[normal wyvern]

nah started yesterday so maybe enough time

[proper raft]

Let’s all pray for the best and hope that OpenVPN got a supply chain attack and maybe HTB servers are fine

[winged marsh]

what province are you from?

im from ontario

[latent oak]

NB

[winged marsh]

small province

[proper raft]

Oh I see

[terse dirge]

Ik. I've heard that they're really really good

[proper raft]

NJ?

Or

[winged marsh]

new brunswick

[latent oak]

Eh?

[iron galleon]

https://tenor.com/bLO1o.gif

[latent oak]

New Brunswick, Canada

[sweet yoke]

Real talk, shouldn't there be a technician fixing this issue right this moment? A company this big should have staff 24/7 to monitor infrastructure

[winged marsh]

its next to nova scotia

[latent oak]

Sure is

And Quebec, and PEI

[proper raft]

Damn

[latent oak]

Well, there’s a bridge

[winged marsh]

give him a chance, hes probably just fumbling around trying to find his sticky note with all his credentials on it

[proper raft]

You fake

Begone

[winged marsh]

its username "admin" and password "password"

[proper raft]

🤣

[proper raft]

Quebec has amazing seafood man

[worthy cargo]

Hello people!

[proper raft]

Loved that place

[worthy cargo]

How's it going?

[latent oak]

I live next to the sea

🙂

[winged marsh]

good, servers are down

we cant spawn machines

[worthy cargo]

Oh no

That sucks

[sweet yoke]

This is frustrating because I specifically woke up early to play some HTB before going to work.

[hardy frigate]

Is there a way to change back to the old Academy design

[worthy cargo]

Do some sherlocks or challanges in the meantime

[hardy frigate]

This new one is so tragic

[worthy cargo]

#sherlocks #challenges

[latent oak]

My father-in-law is a commercial crab fisherman

All of Quebecs great seafood comes from us 😉

[iron galleon]

did he happen to know tony soprano

[worthy cargo]

Mother = mom
Brother = bro
Sister = sis
Father = ?

[latent oak]

And Japan’s sushi crabs

[dull forge]

eh, is what it is mate. im doing the cpts exam in a few days and trying to get every last bit of prep in, but just gotta sit tight. id imagine they are on it

[latent oak]

Pops

[worthy cargo]

Nope

[proper raft]

Just go back to bed

[worthy cargo]

Father = fat

😄

[proper raft]

🔥🔥🔥

[proper raft]

Good luck man

[ebon silo]

Everything are down accept AI trying to comfort you his superpower.

[proper raft]

About to hit that in a couple of months

[iron galleon]

lmao i hit that shi a few mins ago

i am so fucking faded

[latent oak]

He sleeps with the fishes

[dense turtle]

https://tenor.com/view/gohine-hohino-no-hohineee-gohineee-gif-17792172174678204487

[latent oak]

Tony, that is

[dull forge]

thanks, you too! .. im feeling both confident yet so much imposter syndrome its an odd feeling lol

[proper raft]

Imposter syndrome is real man

[sweet yoke]

I get it & I hope they're on it but I'm not sure because they haven't even updated the status page. Anyways good luck on your exam!

[iron galleon]

imposter syndrome b like "it's that ez?"

[proper raft]

All fun and games until you pass CPTS and move onto CApe

[latent oak]

How do you think I feel? I’m not even a real person? I’m one of @sharp shuttle ‘s sock puppets

[gloomy fulcrum]

where it is

[iron galleon]

I can wear a cape

[alpine pumice]

I still feel like an imposter with years and years of IT experience

[iron galleon]

RIP Biggie Smalls

[turbid goblet]

are u msp

[iron galleon]

I am state police, yes

You caught me

[latent oak]

I’m in a state of denial

[dense turtle]

name and badge number

[iron galleon]

016740921

54321

[dull forge]

CAPE def looks both daunting and exciting. not sure if ill go down that route

[turbid goblet]

how u guys think the box is gonna be tomorrow

[iron galleon]

ez

[turbid goblet]

did u even do any this season

[iron galleon]

yeah (no)

[latent oak]

Claude will solve it ez with my new killer prompt

[iron galleon]

lmao

[turbid goblet]

nice

[iron galleon]

i did 2 machines today its been a hot minute since ive done the labs

[latent oak]

“Gimme dem flags”

[left swan]

Anyone having issues launching pwn boxes or targets?

[iron galleon]

i did 2 boxes in 2-3 hours if im not mistaken

albeit the ez ones

[latent oak]

I did them in 25 mins 😉 j/k

[proper raft]

If you want to move forward with pentesting AD is like essential

But if I even want to think of CAPE I have to upgrade my plan then hit the boxes

[iron galleon]

im alr learning active directory + maldev im js tryna learn as much as possible

[worthy cargo]

I just pissed off a bunch of Israelis on another discord server

[turbid goblet]

it took me like 3 hours to do a medium today and i had to look at the writeup twice

[worthy cargo]

lol

[proper raft]

Maldev is cool lol

[worthy cargo]

I said, The IronDome is just a small umbrella

I got banned 😄

lol

[latent oak]

I’ve always been a slow worker… sometimes it would take me all week to solve a box

Learning curve on some of the insane boxes can be steep

[turbid goblet]

im not gonna be touching an insane box for another like 2 years lmao

[dense turtle]

i've been for 4 days in 2 different boxes and i was alredy loosing my mind

[latent oak]

Or even some mediums can be tricky… in don’t remember the difficulty but there was one called bookworm that had a timing thing that pissed me off

[dull forge]

the interest is there. whats funny is when i first started the CPTS course, and coming from a software background, anything AD felt 🤮 and web/app pentesting was more interesting. but the more i dive into AD, the more im enjoying it. so i could see myself doing cape eventually

[worthy cargo]

I want to get into DFIR. I would love a detective job.

[dull forge]

gotta get past CPTS first 😆

[iron galleon]

the screen was 3d and said "LOLZ"

[worthy cargo]

Pentesting isn't that much interesting to me

[iron galleon]

jesus

[worthy cargo]

Plus, most companies need defenders. Not attackers.

What most companies need, is me.

😄

[latent oak]

For sure, but a defender who thinks like an attacker

[worthy cargo]

That's why I do some pentesting.

[latent oak]

That’s how I sell myself

[iron galleon]

ayo

[latent oak]

I landed a pretty sweet gig a few months ago

[iron galleon]

im tryna get a job

im do cpts in like 2 weeks ill prob be ready

[latent oak]

Nice! Go get it man

But yes, very few folks get paid to attack all day, most of us are paid to defend

Well, defend and prevent

[proper raft]

To even be able to attack an enterprise network you have to understand AD obviously I believe CPTS has a good amount of boxes and does set you up with a little bit of knowledge on AD. But to attack an enterprise network on a higher level having a dedicated section that covers attacking it is good enough

AD is broad as hell so it does need its own section

[latent oak]

Alright, I’m out

[proper raft]

Ooh wait we get room service

Time to load up HTB

💀

[iron galleon]

thats something id say when im faded bro lmao

[sharp shuttle]

no you wouldnt, its all csam.

[proper raft]

Define “defend” a lot of the folks I know do anything but that

[worthy cargo]

scam?

[iron galleon]

i think he was trying to send another message

[sharp shuttle]

child...abuse material.

[worthy cargo]

the fuck are you talking about?

[iron galleon]

im joking bro

[sharp shuttle]

Detective work

DFIR

Thats the job

[worthy cargo]

I would like to get into DFIR. I enjoy that forensics work.

[sharp shuttle]

And i am telling you, its all csam.

[worthy cargo]

And why should I believe you?

[sharp shuttle]

Because I did it for 3 years.

[worthy cargo]

Not every DFIR has to do with that.

[sharp shuttle]

Detective work does.

You said detective.

[worthy cargo]

Not the detectives I've spoken to

[sharp shuttle]

Alright man.

[worthy cargo]

In the local city/state level.

[sharp shuttle]

Go get your license

[proper raft]

Oh hell no did someone say they want to work in incident response

[worthy cargo]

I don't want to be a "detective". I said I enjoy detective work.

[sharp shuttle]

Dm me when the DA gives you your first case

[worthy cargo]

Forensics

Well, wish me luck

[proper raft]

Just imagine getting summoned at 3 AM in the morning just to see it’s a false positive

[iron galleon]

why would that disappoint you

[worthy cargo]

I don't give a fuck if I get summoned at 3am

So long as I'm getting paid.

[iron galleon]

wait what are we talmbout

[misty nova]

hello, i cant sart machine. it said: "Failed to spawn machine on the Dedicated server". Anyone know how to fix?

[worthy cargo]

servers are down for the moment. Wait and try again later

[sharp shuttle]

If you are law enforcement you wouldnt be dealing with endless csam, it is specifically the fact that they dont want to do it that you get assigned those jobs as a PI

[worthy cargo]

The local detective told me that the person who does forensics is not a detective he is a civilian.

So it's possible for me to get into it as a civilian

No need for a detective license or training

I'm not trying to get into law enforcement

[sharp shuttle]

Your local detective is lying to you, they have a hard time keeping on call investigators

Im just trying to help you out man.

[worthy cargo]

I don't see it as help

[sharp shuttle]

Its a cold world

[worthy cargo]

I see it as discouraging.

[sharp shuttle]

Alright, dont take my unsolicited advice

it fucked me on deeply emotional level

I am simply trying to spare you

[worthy cargo]

Well first I have to break into DFIR job

That's the first thing

Before even anything else

I appreciate you looking out for me too

[sharp shuttle]

Its not hard, buy a kit, get licensed, sit in the DA office with the case item and get to work

none of it is hidden

[limber hollow]

do you have any idea when it'll be back cause doing mah cpts exam

[sharp shuttle]

I can promise you that you wont be dealing with financial crimes. So you do that math

[worthy cargo]

No idea. Contact support, maybe to see if they have an ETA or how you should proceed in this case

[west lynx]

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

[iron galleon]

i wanna sign up for one of those irl horror game things like SAW

[worthy cargo]

Just go to an escape room

[sharp shuttle]

You sit there and catalogue endless amount of fucked up, soul crushing imagery, one by one, tag it, and submit it for discovery

[worthy cargo]

See if you can handle that first

[sharp shuttle]

What cases did i enjoy? adultery

thats why i even got into it

[proper raft]

The THM tag is frying me 😭

[proper raft]

Are you sane?💀

[iron galleon]

LMAO

[iron galleon]

ahaha

bro

[sharp shuttle]

?

[worthy cargo]

Fuck THM

Fuck them up their decieving asses

[iron galleon]

bro wanted to see adultery as a job

[sharp shuttle]

My ex wife betrayed our marriage and i felt a need to help other men spited by a corrupt system.

[iron galleon]

oh shit

[worthy cargo]

Never married, no kids.

[sharp shuttle]

Good, youll be unbiased

They like that

[limber hollow]

yoo mah badd 😭

[sharp shuttle]

The DA likes to crucify people who are otherwise innocent

anything for a conviction

[worthy cargo]

Get that THM shit outta here!

😄

[proper raft]

Yall are old gah damn

[worthy cargo]

Mods, ban this THM guy

He is here blaspheming

[proper raft]

Average age in here must be 30+