TryHackMe Hacker Hollidays Walkthrough
For the past couple of weeks I've been playing through Hacker Holidays 2026 - "The Byte Lotus," TryHackMe's resort-themed CTF: 14 rooms unlocking one a day (Jul 27 – Aug 9, 16:00 UTC), all wrapped around a luxury-hotel story starring VERA, the resort's a little-too-helpful AI concierge.
What I liked about this event is how much ground it covered, one day you're doing pure OSINT off a brochure, the next you're chaining a NoSQL auth bypass into a full boot2root, cracking DPAPI in a DFIR triage, or talking an LLM into running shell commands for you.
Below are the main pointers from each day: the core vulnerability, the trick that unlocked it, and the flag, so you can follow the whole trail from the beach bar to the manager's office.
Hacker Holidays — The Shells Teaser
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