This was a mixture of pcap analysis, crypto, and reverse engineering.

Day 6: Overheard at Breakfast

The Case of the Broken Keylogger

Here is a quick walkthrough of a room for TryHackMe Hacker Holidays 2026, a 14-day cybersecurity challenge where a new room unlocks every…

Jitu Sah 3 min read

TryHackMe Walkthrough

Compare 7 enterprise IT asset management platforms for 2027, covering security, automation, cost, compliance, lifecycle tracking and business requirements.

There’s a moment every offensive developer hits where writing position-independent code stops being interesting and starts being a tax. You…

Contents

A story that reads like fiction, except it happened

While binge-playing the TryHackMe platform, I came across a rather interesting challenge. Not because it tackled a fancy chain of complex…

Introduction

Disclaimer: Metasploitable 2 is an intentionally vulnerable virtual machine created for educational purposes. This walkthrough should only…

Not every room needs a terminal and a reverse shell. ItsyBitsy hands you a Kibana dashboard, a pile of connection logs, and a story — an…

Download and open the pcap file.

Complimentary: When “No Account Needed” Means No Access Control A walkthrough of TryHackMe’s “Complimentary” — Easy, 60 points, Cloud category — from the Hacker Holidays event at the …

You can play this room for free: “https://tryhackme.com/room/hh-packedlight-02e5330c”

Machine details

It’s an intermediate, practical guide on what and how you can secure Kali Linux.

For this project, I wanted to understand what can happen after a user unknowingly executes a malicious file.

Learn how SSH tunnels securely forward network traffic, when local, remote, and dynamic forwarding help, and why they are best for controlled, temporary access.