I Played HackTheBox For 30 Days - Here's What I Learned

⏰ Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:22 - Project Overview
2:36 - Week 1 - Starting Point T0
4:44 - Week 2 - Starting Point T1/2
6:48 - Week 3 - Retired Machines
7:00 - 2Million Box
8:12 - Week 4 - Active Machines
8:30 - Steps to Pwn Boxes
9:18 - Lessons Learned + Conclusion

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[collinsinfosec]

Update: I had to remove the overview sections of active machines as this was a violation of HTB's Terms of Service.

[nostalgicnow]

HTB is no joke for beginners; however, you can see results with HTB academy patience and the ability to grind. I have spent hours on boxes, even with walkthroughs where I couldn't get one flag 😂 but my hands-on skills and tool knowledge upgraded vastly. My advice is Dont stop and Dont rush for flags learn as many attack vectors as possible

[iTzDynamic]

"more like a 60 day process due to laziness.. 😅" bro, I've always appreciated your honesty/trasnsparncy in your content. Been watching you since December and I can truly say you've helped me solidify my decision to get into cyber security. currently enrolled in a coding BootCamp and should be done within a month and a half. Thank you so much for documenting your journey, it feels like I'm a kid growing up watching a tv show and seeing the characters age with me

[kilo-papa]

Thanks so much for sharing your 30 day HTB experience! It's awesome to see something real as I'm new to HTB and kind of intimidated but really want to play CTF challenges 😂

[UnixGuy]

Thanks for sharing! Love HackTheBox, those challenges are extremely helpful!

[joaooliveirarocha]

I did HTB for 3 months during a summer 4 or 6 years ago. I did it after some workshops in college sparked my curiosity. It was refreshing because it's a "try-to-catch" me vibe and it's requires knowledge on the tools, operative system and networks. That was very different from software engineering / programming where it's more about building, solving problems and making decisions on a product.
I don't see myself doing pen-testing / hacking for a job and HTB made me realize that. But it's was pretty fun to do and gave me solid basis later that I've used already on preventing some vulns on the products I worked on.

[RisingAurora]

I have zero experience with CTF and am using this to kickstart myself. Thanks!

[milosmilovanovic]

Great video, really enjoyed. Also, very inspirational idea, I'm planning to implement 30-day routine as well.
I agree with your recommendation for notes, that they should maybe include multiple attack paths in order to be more realistic. Regarding that, I also recommend you to watch some ipssec videos, he's kind of doing that on camera, so you could get some good ideas on what to do from him.

[Redyf]

Pretty cool stuff, I had no idea about HackTheBox so thanks for sharing Grant

[mrashco]

Love this. CTFs are a great starting place.

[chrisgiannakopoulos]

Proud to see a company founded by greek founder to be so successful!

[codebeta_cr]

Awesome video…just a thing, you mentioned live boxes and basically providing the solution to them…that’s against the tos…though it’s a quick overview. Just want to be careful with that.

[MK-rylg]

To the people asking for others notes/writeups THAT IS ALSO AGAINST HTB POLICY. GET GOOD.

[truhustaz]

Hey, is it a good idea for a beginner to start at HTB to start learning Cybersecurity?

[fsa-he]

Please Tell me Is this Necessary use pwn box to go with hack the box ?

[ajaykumargupta]

Hey ... I just want to know from where did you learn hacking nd everything.... Cause I am interested in this field....so if you can share the information It will be very helpful for me....

[hankrearden]

At what level should a person try HTB?

[Fahodinho]

will you continue playing htb after these 30 days?

[JW-jucq]

Hey Grant - where are those starting point notes found?
Thanks!

[phamcongtoan]

Is HTB Labs and HTB Academy different, right, and which platform should I use?