HackTheBox's Cyber Apocalypse 2026 - Hardware

Disclaimer: This write-up will be a bit brief. I will comeback to actually finish this write-up later. Ughh, should have written it when I have just finished:( Cadence in the cord Description: With the Brine Signet shattered, every house hunts whatever might make its story law. Lady Seralyne — the Velvet Spider of Suncourt — sells what she claims is the dragon’s true note: not the lost thing itself, only a counterfeit cadence arranged to be believed, and a wavering house is ready to buy it as proof its claim rings true. We cut one of her sendings from the wire first. Read the pleasant words; then attend to the silences between them, and expose the forgery she is truly selling. ...

HackTheBox's Sherlock 2026 Write-up

Honestly, it recently feels sooooo boring writing a CTF challenge write-up. You know, with the rise of AI, doing all of these is kinda pointless now. Well, at least luckily, I’m a project-person. 1 Which Win32 structure defines the format of the buffer returned by the Lua script when monitoring directory changes? (string) - FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION Which Win32 API is used by the Lua script to send an HTTP request to the remote server? (string) - WinHttpSendRequest ...