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Hydra Tutorial – How to Effortlessly Brute-force Network Services

February 12, 2026 by pentestguides

Full tutorial to brute-force network services with hydra, including SSH, FTP, HTTP, NFS, SMB, etc. Hydra is useful during CTF or pentesting to brute-force login.

Categories Pentest Tools - Password Attacks Tags brute force, ftp, hydra, kali linux, linux, nfs, password attacks, passwords, smb, ssh Leave a comment

Solving Lookup – TryHackMe Challenge Writeup

February 16, 2026February 12, 2026 by pentestguides
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Complete walkthrough of Lookup room on TryHackMe: form brute-forcing, elFinder CVE and 2 Linux misconfigurations lead us to the root flag.

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags ctf, curl, ffuf, hydra, linux, nmap, path hijacking, php, python, reverse shell, ssh, sudo, suid, tryhackme, web Leave a comment

Solving Basic Pentesting – TryHackMe Challenge Writeup

February 17, 2026February 11, 2026 by pentestguides
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Full walkthrough of the TryHackMe Basic Pentesting room: web enumeration, SMB usernames, SSH access and SSH private key brute-force.

Categories TryHackMe Challenge Tags brute forcing, brute-force, ctf, ffuf, hydra, john, nmap, private key, privilege escalation, rockyou, smb, ssh, tryhackme, web Leave a comment
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