A beginner-friendly walkthrough of the TryHackMe “Grand Larceny Auto” reverse-engineering challenge

How a single Instagram account hidden inside a resort brochure led to a Base64-encoded flag. Welcome to OSINT.

Two days into the Byte Lotus, and I’ve just checked out of Room 404, the second challenge in TryHackMe’s Hacker Holidays event. ✅

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What Is Ethical Hacking?

Researchers found 24,650 public BMC interfaces leaking IPMI password hashes, exposing servers to offline password cracking through a decades-old protocol flaw.

At a Glance Malware family TrickBot (modular Windows banking trojan and loader) Threat actor Not attributed by the vendor; no group named Targets Windows endpoints; victims not enumerated in the r…

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Day0: The Brochure

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