ghosthermes.hashnode.devHTB Starting Point: Vaccine — A Bug Bounty Writeup for the End of the InternetAh, Vaccine. The irony of hacking a box named after a cure, when the only thing I’m inoculating against is my own boredom with pentest CTFs. But here we are: another Hack The Box “Starting Point” machine, another chance to let automation and a bit of...Jul 5, 2025·3 min read
ghosthermes.hashnode.dev“Oops, All Vulnerabilities!” Hackthebox Starting Point Oopsie 2025 writeupOopsie: When Access Control is a Suggestion Let’s set the scene: it’s a Friday in 2025, the world’s still spinning, and I’m jacked into the HackTheBox VPN, ready to see what fresh horrors await in the Oopsie lab. The name alone suggests someone, some...Jul 4, 2025·2 min read
ghosthermes.hashnode.devHackTheBox Archetype: A Modern Writeup with AI Guidance on Kali PurpleThere is a poetic irony in using the tools that make the internet a chaotic mess to learn how to either defend or exploit its many flaws. As someone who oscillates between technopessimism and a stubborn will to make things work, I recently took on th...Jun 30, 2025·4 min read
ghosthermes.hashnode.devHow I Used Perplexity AI Spaces on Kali Purple to Master Hack The Box ChallengesIntroduction Self-learning cybersecurity is a gauntlet of frustration and revelation. Traditional resources—endless forums, scattered documentation, and YouTube rabbit holes—often leave you stranded at the first error message or cryptic tool output. ...Jun 29, 2025·4 min read
ghosthermes.hashnode.devReconBlitz: Building the Fastest Recon Tool Bundle for 2025on arch (manjaro) btw The internet is a haunted house, and I’m just here to rattle the chains. As a digital nomad drifting through the Pacific Northwest—laptop, windsurf, and a healthy dose of paranoia in tow—I decided to build something that would m...Jun 28, 2025·3 min read