Introduction

A TryHackMe Lab

Critical React flaw CVE-2025-55182 (CVSS 10.0) under mass exploitation. Two IPs drive 56% of attacks deploying miners & shells. Upgrade to v19.0.1+ now.

Web

The most fundamental thing when studying hacking is the “shell.”

A deep dive into how I built a lightweight, extensible reverse shell manager from scratch — and what I learned along the way.

Tenable uncovers "ambar-src," a malicious npm package mimicking "ember-source." It uses preinstall scripts to deploy reverse shells and Apfell malware.

By Mawira Vic,

Platform: TryHackMe Room: RootMe Difficulty: Easy Category: Web, Privilege Escalation

🔎 1. Recon

ROOM TYPE

🔎 1. Recon

The Silent Gateway Between You and the Machine

TryHackMe: h4cked — Someone Was Already Inside A .pcap file tells the whole story. All you have to do is read it. Most rooms ask you to break in. This one hands you the evidence and asks: can you …

First things first, lets analyse the target with nmap:

Most pentesters or OffSec students are familiarized with inbound SQLi. Those are the kind of injections that give the user some text back…

From deobfuscating JS code to root ‘CVE-2023–0386’

Use privilege escalation knowledge to jump from a normal user to root.

Popping Shells: When servers become puppets!

The beachside guest-experience build shipped on a deadline, and the night-shift developer wired the “jukebox straight into the floor with…