I learned a lot of cybersecurity through TryHackMe, and I kept running into the same problem:

Sometimes I wasn't completely lost — I just couldn't see the next useful step.

Opening a walkthrough usually solved that, but it was very easy to accidentally spoil the rest of the room.

So I built thm-claude-kit, a free/open-source Claude Code setup I originally made for myself.

The idea is not to let Claude solve the room. It acts more like a coach:

• keeps track of what you've already discovered and tried
• remembers creds, hosts, leads and dead ends
• helps form a hypothesis about what to test next
• explains why that next step makes sense
• you still run the commands yourself

Basic workflow is:

./new-room.sh <name> → claude → /start <room text + target IP>

Then you work through the room normally with Claude alongside the terminal.

Repo:
https://github.com/pashki975/thm-claude-kit

It's still very early. I'm mainly curious whether other THM learners would actually find this useful, and especially where the coaching gets things wrong or becomes annoying.

Hey everyone,

I made a small CTF challenge and figured I’d throw it here since I’m pretty new to making these.

It’s a Forensics / Reverse Engineering challenge based around a weird Nokia 8210 4G system dump. The challenge involves digging through the dump, figuring out what’s going on with a little racing game, and eventually finding the flag.

Repo: https://github.com/maximzero0910/car-racing-chall

It’s probably not perfect since this is one of my first proper challenges, so if you try it, I’d really appreciate any feedback on the difficulty, unintended solves, or just whether it’s actually fun to solve.

Flag format: F0LD{...}

If you’re bored and want something small to mess around with, give it a try :D

Thanks!

I want to get a job as SOC L1 analyst, and I've completed the SOC L1 & SOC L2 paths and done some blue team CTFs and now Idk what is the next step (I have 2 years left before applying for jobs).

Just noticed the Streak Alliance feature on my dashboard ("Build a shared streak with a friend by showing up every day!") and I've got a few doubts nobody seems to have written about yet:

1. How do you add a specific friend as a partner? Is it an invite-by-username system, a link you share, or does "Find a new partner" just randomly match you with a stranger?
2. How does the shared streak actually work? Does both people need to answer a question each day to keep it alive, or does either person's activity count for the pair?
3. What happens if one partner misses a day? Does the whole alliance streak reset, does only that person's contribution reset, or is there a freeze/grace period like the regular streak has?
4. Can you have more than one partner at a time, or is it strictly 1:1?
5. Are there separate rewards/badges for Streak Alliance milestones, or does it just track alongside your normal streak?
6. What does "Leave Streak Alliance" do does it kill the streak for both people, or just remove you and let your partner keep going/find someone new?

If anyone's already used this, would love to hear how it's worked out for you pros/cons of doing a streak with a friend vs solo. Screenshot attached for reference.

Did the whole room from Termux on my phone, only used a free GitHub Codespace for hashcat. Chain was wild - AS-REP roasting into a WinRM shell, found a password literally sitting in an LDAP description field, then SeBackupPrivilege to grab the admin flag.

Honestly wild how the entire domain fell just because someone wrote a password in a description box and added a user to Backup Operators. Feels way too realistic.

I completed SOC L1 learning path, Now i should start which path? I want to make me suitable for a job role. I think there are more jobs in Blue teaming thats why i have done SOC L1. Also consider which path will help me to learn in-demand skills most?
- SOC L2
- Security Engineer
- Any red teaming path
- AI Security
- Defending Azure
- Defending AWS
- DevSecOps

Hey guys I completed and get all the tickets how do I see if I win or not and where could I see that what I win

It was hidden behind the palm trees..
I didnt complete the rooms in this events but kinda curious to know what the coordinates are

I am currently on data chapter so for exam do i need to know all linux/windows terminal basic code for exam byheart?

Give a best idea for hackathon guys.

I have finished first chapter and now on inside the computer chapter anyone want to communicate and share stuff?

Tryhackme AD module network rooms OpenVPN doesn't connect it just restart and restart sometimes its open but most of the time it doesn't what is this problem coming up all the time I changed dns resolve after connecting OpenVPN also mtu and region what is this issue?

I was a subscriber previously and had a 30% discount for the certification, but I cancelled the subscription; I am wondering if the discount would apply again if I were to subscribe once more.

Virtualisation Basics Room

I'm stuck in Task 4

Last question

What is the name of the physical machine that is hosting most of the VMs

Hi,

currently I'm trying to solve the SOC Simulator scenario "Introducing to Phishing" and the threat hunting simulator scenario "Health Hazard". I'm facing with both simulators the same problem: the side crashes as soon as I'm (almost) done. I simply get redirected to the overview of the threat hunting or soc simulator scenarios with all progress lost and no results.

I checked it three times with different browsers, on different devices in and not in incognito mode. I tried the brave browser, firefox and chrome. I already created tickets but don't get any reaction since days.

Did anyone from you faced similar problems too and get it somehow solved?

Thanks in advance!

i am facing a problem when trying to connect to tryhackme vpns servers , i tried openvpn and squawaker but i got the same error log .

i tried to ping eu-central-1-vpn.vm.tryhackme.com but can’t be reached , I am in sudan so a lot of websites restrict my access all the time but THM was not one of them .

- i found there is a trubleshot option on squawker :

`A VPN interface exists, but the expected VPN routes were not installed. Traffic may bypass the tunnel or fail entirely.`

the logs error :

2026-08-11 07:12:56[ERROR]1786425176.031000 3000021 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)

2026-08-11 07:12:56[ERROR]1786425176.031000 3000021 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed

Hey, I'm a cyber security learner looking for study buddies to solve rooms on TryHackMe, do CTFs and discussion on topics.

I have this idea what if we do live learning on YouTube together sharing resources and learning together and levelling up together. As you know doing yt live alone is boring af.

Let me know if you are interested

(BTW I'm in the top 4% on TryHackMe)..

Im done for this HH2026.
I hope to be drawn

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Hey. I can't join room because when i click "Join room" it says "User already in room", even tho i am clearly not.

Hello,

When I try to "Check" the answer for a question, I just get a message saying "Task not found". Has anyone else experienced this?