Building a Vulnerable SSH Lab to Learn Real-World Attack Techniques
By
Handhika Yanuar Pratama
A good honest bake. Not flashy, but you'll finish the whole bagel.
Summary
This article guides readers through setting up and using VulnSSH, a purposely insecure SSH environment inside a local pentest lab, to learn real-world attack techniques. It follows up on a previous article about building a pentest environment on a Mac using Docker, and focuses on how attackers enumerate, attack, abuse, and maintain access to SSH services.
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In this article, we will use VulnSSH, a purposely insecure SSH environment, to understand how attackers enumerate, attack, abuse, and maintain access to SSH services in the real world
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