I come from offensive security and I have spent a lot of time on AI research, MCP, and vulnerability hunting. When Hack The Box shipped its Certified Offensive AI Expert, I jumped on it. This is a retex of the AI Red Teamer path and the certification, focused on how I prepared and the math behind the attacks, kept strictly within HTB’s disclosure rules.
Complete exploitation of a Windows Active Directory machine highlighting Kerberos delegation RBCD techniques
PeppermintRoute: Our Journey Through the challenge # This writeup covers our complete journey solving the PeppermintRoute challenge. This was part of the HackTheBox University CTF 2025, an international cybersecurity competition for students where we participated with the Phreaks 2600 team.
HackTheBox - Redelegate # Hard difficulty Windows Active Directory machine - Anonymous FTP access leading to KeePass cracking and Kerberos constrained delegation