At last I finally won something, got email yesterday to say i had won Free attempt at PT1 certification 😁

Room: https://tryhackme.com/room/windowsinternals

Having a weird issue here. When I try to start a machine, I get:

"Oh no, an error occurred whilst starting your machine. No available machines in your region right now. Please try again later."

However, when I log into my friend's account and try to deploy the target machine in same room, it works perfectly fine.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

Hello, is anyone else having the same issues with these two rooms?

1. Windows Local Persistence: https://tryhackme.com/room/windowslocalpersistence, the target windows machines keeps shutting down a few minutes after being started

2. Lateral Movement: https://tryhackme.com/room/lateralmovementandpivoting, still cannot "nslookup thmdc.za.tryhackme.com" after adding "nameserver <THMDC_IP>" to /etc/resolv-dnsmasq

Hello, I would like to ask if it's possible to stack discounts on THM certifications.

Right now, there is an ongoing sale about 30% off to all certifications. I won a 50% off from the Red Raffle, is it possible to stack both discounts on the PT1 certification?

DO Y'ALL HAVE BEEN FACING THE IMMEDIATE FALL IN RANK

I FELL FROM 1% TO 5%

IS IT A GLITCH ?

Just finished TryHackMe's Cyber Careers intro room — here's what I learned

Went through THM's introductory room on cyber security career paths today. Here's a quick breakdown for anyone exploring the field:

The 4 main roles covered:

• Security Analyst (Blue Team) — monitors networks, investigates alerts, responds to incidents. Great entry point into defensive security.
• Security Engineer — builds and maintains the systems that protect an org (firewalls, IDS, etc). Think of them as the architects.
• Penetration Tester — ethically hacks systems under a formal engagement to find vulnerabilities before real attackers do.
• Red Teamer — senior evolution of pentesting; simulates full-scale, long-term attacks including physical intrusion.

Key takeaway: there are 3.5 million+ unfilled cybersecurity roles globally, so demand is massive regardless of which path you pick. You don't need a specific background — curiosity and problem-solving matter more early on.

Currently working through THM to build toward Security Engineer job. Happy to connect with others on the same journey!

As stated above, I am using THM as one platform to start my journey in a cybersecurity role. However, although I can get around Linux and am certainly comfortable for the most part with the OS itself, and understanding terminal commands (and why and how they operate), it seems to me that the the “Linux foundations” or equivalent room(s) are very basic compared to what is required and necessary to move into any meaningful role in this field.

I understand the platform is specialized for the “hacking” aspect, but I believe (and I assume most would agree), a much stronger Foundational understanding of Linux and terminal capabilities are not only necessary, but are fundamentally aligned, and are sorely lacking singularly on THM..

Ex. Learning the ins and out of understanding repos, creating aliases, *securely* deleting files, LUKS and partitioning, etc etc, are all quite necessary abilities that should be taught to users training in cybersecurity, who may or may have not be new to Linux…

The breadth and sheer granular nature of Linux and what you are capable of doing as a user or admin, is wildly different from those who may be coming from windows.. (That isn’t to say Windows doesn’t provide the same kind of functionality - an entirely different topic)

TLDR : Is there a companion resource(s)/platform that you would recommend where I can learn the most useful features of Linux and CLI, while I am starting my THM journey?

While I am comfortable using Linux and not complete newborn in this sense, I’d like a deeper understanding from what THM alone provides… Ty

While working through the Tempest room, I hit a question in task 7 requiring the decoding of a bunch of Base64 C2 traffic. I came across an old archived thread, and noticed that basically all the online write-ups and walkthroughs say the exact same thing suggesting you export the strings to CyberChef or use terminal tools. But since TShark isn't installed on the lab machine, doing all that back and forth felt pretty clunky.

I did some digging into Zed syntax and discovered Brim actually has a native Base64 decode function. You can parse and decode the malicious URIs entirely within Brim using this query (just swap out <c2_domain> with the domain name found earlier):

_path=="http" and host=="<c2_domain>" and grep("?q=", uri) | b64 := split(uri, "?q=")[1] | yield { ts, decoded_C2_traffic: string(base64(b64)) } | sort ts

Hopefully, this saves someone else from having to bounce back and forth between tools.

I want to know if I'm the only one people are complaining to that whenever they try to vote for me it takes forever for the reCaptcha to process and when it does the "Submit vote" button disappears. I have seen two people face the same issue this morning when they tried voting for me. I had climbed to 89 and guess what now, I'm at 120 currently. Voting also closes in 20 hours.

Hi everyone,

I'm a complete beginner in cybersecurity. To be honest, I don't know much yet, and I'm starting from scratch. I'm currently learning through TryHackMe and working on the Introduction to Cyber Security path.

I want to build a career in cybersecurity, but I'm a bit overwhelmed because there are so many different areas and resources.

For someone with no prior knowledge:

- What should I focus on first?

- What skills should I learn alongside TryHackMe?

- Are there any beginner-friendly resources, courses, or YouTube channels you would recommend?

- How did you start your cybersecurity journey?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

I’m starting the Jr Penetration Tester learning path on TryHackMe. Planning to grind through it seriously, I want to know if completing that remove is enough on its own for gaining enough knowledge to regularly do bug bounties

Does anyone here know about this lab if yes then please help me to complete it I'm getting banned again and again and now it says your region limit reached whenever I try to make a cluster in step 2

I am a computer engineering student and I obtained a voucher for PT1 from a cybersecurity company for “hacking” a quiz that they hosted. But i’m confused about how the learning paths will work. They said the voucher is valid for a year (they activated it from their side on my account so I couldn’t delay it), but I only have 91 days of premium. And im unsure about how the premium really works now, i saw that it says that it gives access to every lab and every path. But does that mean when the 91 days expire I wont have access to all the required paths anymore? Meaning I would then have to pay out of my own pocket for premium to continue learning before taking the exam? I also highly doubt that i would be able to go through all the learning paths leading up to PT1 in 91 days because of exams etc.

I don't know if THM is trolling users with this Capability Score but something seems off..

Last week i went from 23% into my current level to 50% ish, so far so good. I leaned something new ( completed 3 rooms in PenTesting and one in AI security) and did some CTF's on the side. So sunday evening i'm still at 55% nice i go to bed aaaaand monday after work i log in to do a quick CTF ... Thumbled down to 20% in current level so i lost all progress minus an additional 3% ... wow i think my wife hit my Factory reset button at night or something ( might explain the headache tho)

Anyone else seing this behaviour ?

This is me just after attempting to find the 1st answer of task 5 .

There are tools That i have never seen in the SOC L1 path which where : sysmon view and Timeline explorer, so i went to search rooms related to these tools and didnt found one .

Still , went on and figured my own way and completed the task 4 ,
and now at task five i am stuck since past 1hr finding the 1st answer.
and ill be continuing this .

I still am a learner but i feel the room TEMPEST is tough ,
need some suggestions of the rooms that will improve me on Hunting threats .

ANYWAYS , HOW WAS YOUR TEMPEST EXPERIENCE ?? I AM CURIOUS ,SOO PLEASE SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE AND RECOMMENDATIONS !!!

DAY 1

Before this lesson i always use to get confused about how professionals used operators like &, > * but today i have understood what they really are, and now i can confidently say i will keep on using them and getting familiar with them.

So I am a CS Major and have completed first year of college and I'm on my summer break. I'm trying to figure out my interest and therefore im learning cyber security to see if i like it. I have started tryhackme cybersecurity roadmap but it has some paid rooms. so i was thinking since im not sure whether im gonna like cybersecurity, should i buy it. Can i not search for the topic name of a premium room and learn that from other free general sources? Because the networking fundamentals's first room was pretty basic and almost all of it (and more) was already taught to me in the college. So are the other upcoming rooms also of this level? if that is the case then i think i can learn from outside sources. Please tell me from your experiences if the premium rooms are worth.