My second VulnHub box, and a completely different lesson from the first. DC-1 fell because its software was ancient. DC-2 had nothing old to exploit — every step was just a weak password or a lazy ...

I’ve already published how I broke DC-1. This is the other half: I wanted to know what a defender would actually have seen while I did it. So I put Suricata in front of the same attack and ran it a...

Engagement type: Network penetration test (black-box, single host) Tester: Self-study lab (solo capstone) Date: 2026-07-31 Target: 192.168.56.103 (VulnHub DC-1), isolated host-only network 192.168....