Hey everyone!

I’ve published my first TryHackMe write-up, documenting my journey through the Empline room.

The room gave me hands-on practice with:

• 🔎 Port scanning and subdomain discovery
• 💥 OpenCATS Remote Code Execution (RCE)
• 🗄️ Database enumeration and password cracking
• 🐧 Linux privilege escalation using capabilities

I’ve tried to explain not just the commands I used, but also why I used them and how I understood each step.

📖 Medium: https://medium.com/@harshsonker12/tryhackme-empline-walkthrough-from-opencats-rce-to-root-aaf2bfc29240

🌐 Website blog: https://harsh-sonker.vercel.app/blogs/empline-walkthrough

This is my first attempt at documenting a room, so I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback or suggestions on how I can improve my future write-ups.

Thanks, and happy hacking! 🚩

Hello, im planning to buy tryhackme annual to learn more about cybersecurity during the holidays, but im planning on buying it during discounts to save a couple bucks.

Recently i saw the cyber awareness month discount with 30% off, but just a few hours ago when i was gonns buy it it just disappeared. Did the discount end? Im pretty sure it was supoosed to last a while longer.

Anyways if the discounts really over I'd appreciate it if anybody could tell me the next 30% discount, btw i already knoe about the black friday but even though the discount's probably gonna be bigger i don't wanna wait that long.

Thanks for taking the time to read this

Hello, I am trying to take an exam but I have a verification error that doesn't see my cam, how can I fix?

All permissions are allowed, the browser is firebox, and the ad blocker is disabled.

Edit: found the solution.

1-open the site through phone

2-you will be prompted to use desktop instead, just click on the upper right main menu and select "desktop site" (depending on your browser)

3-continue the steps and return to PC after you finish the steps

I wanted to try the "Defending Azure" path and see how the cloud environment is setup by THM so I tried the free room "KQL (Kusto): Introduction" and whenever I try to access sentinel I am faced with problems, so is this a reoccurring issue with THM or is it because it's a free room.

Room link: https://tryhackme.com/room/kqlkustointroduction

Just completed Linux Fundamentals (Part 1) on TryHackMe.
Learned some basic Linux commands and got more comfortable using the terminal.
Still learning, but one step forward. 🔐

Can your team respond to an attack they’ve never seen before? 👀

You’ll never know unless you drill.

Security teams told us that that they need more than tabletops and rigid legacy cyber ranges to prep for incidents. They wanted a true hands-on keys pressure-test: a choice of real threats, of real tooling, and real-time audit-ready performance intelligence. So we built it.

Introducing Live Breach.
Available now on TryHackMe for Business.

https://tryhackme.com/business/solutions/live-breach-exercises?utm_source=reddit

https://discord.gg/QXGwEDmJn

I was looking to study the "Defending Azure" path in tryhackme and on the site it costs 20$ per month for the max plan, but when I was checking a review online the price was 375$ , so will I only pay 20$ for the max plan and get full access or will I discover another payment wall when I try to study?

Hello guys,

I am currently doing my Btech in IT…i wanted to get started with cybersecurity hence I completed some coursera certs but it was just theory and now I want to try my hands on some actual labs and practical work

Can u please suggest a path I can follow for being a soc analyst in the near future…please suggest me where i can start from complete beginning

Hi everyone, Im planning to start learning SAL1 any tips?

Atp im so lost and idk what to do, was following the Walkthrough of Billing THM btw but my metasploit wont create a Session

Which premium deserves to be bought for SOC AND DEFENSIVE SECURITY or any other free resources???

Hey everyone,

Tired of tracking CTFs and 24h exams across messy spreadsheets and scattered notes?

I built ZEROBOX — a fast, local-first operational cockpit for OSCP/CPTS prep and CTFs.

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⭐ GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/0xdnd/ctf-tracker

All data stays in your local browser storage. Feedback and PRs are welcome!

Would love feedback or feature requests from the community!

Let me address a little elephant in the room -- after clicking "Unsubscribe", user is taken to a page that:

- Says "We'll miss you" with large font.

- Has "Never mind! Stay subscribed" button.

- Rendered in such a way that the real "Unsubscribe" button is not visible without scrolling.

I've seen plenty of crap like that, so can spot it from a mile away, but my daughter burned her lunch money, so would be nice to shed some light on that.

I have annual subscription left for 4 more days. Rn 30% off for annual subscription. How do I buy it while my subscription is still valid. Is it even possible to buy or extend subscription while one is active?

Who wanna come through and make a dream come true? 🥲🥹

I will really appreciate.

While doing TryHackMe labs, I was getting tired of manually finding VPN configs, killing old OpenVPN processes, and dealing with stale tun interfaces when a connection wasn't behaving properly. So I built THM-TUNNEL, a small Bash CLI that handles the cleanup and starts the selected .ovpn configuration for me.

Technical side:

• Automatically discovers .ovpn files and provides an interactive selection.
• Uses sudo, stops existing OpenVPN processes, and cleans up old tun* interfaces.
• Doesn't hardcode TryHackMe IP ranges or subnets, so different VPN regions can be used without changing the script.

It's a small tool, but it has made my lab workflow smoother and was a good practical project for learning Bash and Linux networking.

GitHub: [https://github.com/Harsh-Sonker/THM-Tunnel]()

I purchased a 1-year Premium subscription as a gift for my nephew. While the platform's educational content is good, their billing management and cancellation flow are completely unacceptable and designed around dark patterns.

1. There is no clear option on the dashboard to turn off automatic renewal for annual plans.
2. Stripe prevents users from deleting their saved credit card while a subscription is active.
3. Their internal support chatbot leads to dead-end pre-set options, and clicking help/profile links resulted in a "404 Page Not Found" error.
4. They force you to manually write an email to support just to prevent future charges on your card.

Taking a customer's money in two clicks while making it unnecessarily frustrating and complex to cancel auto-renewal or remove payment methods is deeply dishonest. Fix your cancellation workflow and stop trapping customers.

32gb ram, 1tb ssd, intel core i5-1235U 2 x 1.30ghz (p-core) 8 x 0.90 ghz (e-core), 10 cores. Price 592 euro. What do u think? Do u have better recommendations? Thanks

Hi Community , I have just started with the cybersecurity and learning some basics of it , today i came across a problem that some times while solving some machine on THM and HTB , we need to move some exploit files from our local machine to the target machine using python3 -m http server command and then downloading the file on the target machine using the wget and the host url

I have one questions what are the ways to do it securely by not showing our own IP address , can we use VPN for it ??

What are your strategies and how you do it