Challenge Overview

A hacktivist just compromised one of the government's networks and gathered over one million government employees' personal information, including background, social security numbers, and information of family members and employers. The hacktivist posted several members' of Niaguistein government officials' personal information on a social media platform and threatened to show more personal information. The hacktivist posted that he has continued access to the government systems.

The Ambassador of Niaguistein requested your highly crafted ethical hacking skills to assess the network and systems. Your task is to determine how the hacktivist accessed the systems, what websites were compromised, what databases were accessed, and what credentials the hacktivist used for access. You must identify the hash values of the files containing critical data to the sensitive file systems.

What You Will Learn

  • Network scanning & enumeration to discover live hosts, open services, and attack surface.
  • Web application vulnerability discovery and exploitation (e.g., auth flaws, injection, file inclusion).
  • System-level exploitation and privilege escalation to chain exploits and obtain root access.
  • Forensic evidence & credential recovery, locating sensitive files, extracting hashes/credentials, and mapping attacker access.

Program Curriculum

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