CTF Writeup: Confidential

We got our hands on a confidential case file from some self-declared “black hat hackers”… it looks like they have a secret invite code. Exciting introduction. Continuing on my recent binge of blue-team focused rooms, I’ll be doing the Confidential room today. From the looks of it this seems to be a very easy room. No need to get root access or run any nmap scans. In fact we don’t need to use any security-specific tools at all! ...

October 5, 2025 · 2 min · 383 words · Ligniform

CTF Writeup: Invite Only

Extract insight from a set of flagged artefacts, and distil the information into usable threat intelligence. Back to TryHackMe once again! This time I’ll be focusing on a Blue-Team heavy challenge room - Invite Only. I’ve been trying to target more threat-hunting and defensive challenges lately, so this should be fun! As per the description of the room above it doesn’t seem like we’ll need to be doing any red-team activities, so this should be fairly straightforward! ...

August 13, 2025 · 9 min · 1818 words · Ligniform