February 2025 - nPm Hacks

How to Decrypt an Ansible Vault

By nPm February 28, 2025Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Networking, Security, Tutorial

In this video I explain how to decrypt and Ansible vault using several tools like ansible2john, hashcat, and ansible-vault. There are several steps that need to be followed in order to successfully decrypt an Ansible vault and I lay them all out here for you. Hope this help and let…

Walkthrough – Offsec Proving Grounds – Astronaut

By nPm February 21, 2025Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Metasploit, Networking, Offsec, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

New video - OffSec Proving Grounds Walkthrough of "Astronaut". This was an interesting box that we use many tools an techniques to pwn including Metasploit Framework, PHP reverse shell, and GTFObins! This is a complete walkthrough of the machine so don't watch the video unless you want help compromising the…

Multithreaded Port Scanner

By nPm February 19, 2025Coding, Python, Security, Tutorial

I am FAR from a developer so go easy on me. This is an attempt at a multithreaded port scanner. I have it down to about 40 seconds to scan all 65,535 port (using my PC). The threading was obviously the hard part and I relied on several code examples…

Certification Review – Cisco CyberOps Associate (Cisco Cybersecurity Associate)

By nPm February 14, 2025Certification Exams, Cisco, Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Networking, Review, Security

This is my review of the Cisco CyberOps Associate exam/certification. The cert was rebranded to the Cisco Cybersecurity Associate by Cisco in January. I give you my overall impressions of the exam and how I prepared for it using the official study guide and CBT Nuggets. Keith Barker and Robert…

Hack the Box Walkthrough – Manager

By nPm February 8, 2025Ethical Hacking, Hacking, HTB, Linux, Networking, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

🔔 New video! This video is a walkthrough of the Hack The Box machine called "Manager". It features the use of tools like: 💠 kerbrute 💠 certipy-ad, 💠 mssqlclient.py 👉 I learned a lot about Active Directory tackling this one. ***SPOILERS*** I show you how to pwn the box, so…

👉”How to Generate Shellcode with🐍msfvenom🐍”

By nPm February 2, 2025Ethical Hacking, Hacking, Linux, Metasploit, msfvenom, Networking, Offsec, Security, Tutorial, Walkthrough

This is a follow up video to the Offsec Proving Grounds walkthrough of "Kevin". I show you how to modify an exploit that possibly may not be working for you by generating a new shellcode payload. I learned a ton after being challenged by a viewer of the Kevin video…