How to hack other players

Hacking other players or NPC's is essential for being successful in playing hackero. In the following article, I'd like to point out how hacking in hackero works.

Step 1: Find a victim

Finding a victim can be difficult for beginners, but the more systems you have hacked, the more IP addresses you will find. To find other IP addresses you can use the netstat command to see which other systems are currently connected to the server you are connected to. Also checkout log files for the IP addresses of other players.

Alternatively, you can also convert a hostname (e.g. whois.io) to an IP address via the host command:

shrimps@213.71.60.191:# / host whois.io
whois.io has address 1.1.1.1

Step 2: Start the hacking process

Once you have found the right victim it is time to exploit their system! To be able to run an exploit you must have a cracker software installed. If you have one you can start the exploit by exploit s 1.1.1.1 which will schedule a job for the exploit procedure

shrimps@213.71.60.191:# / exploit s 1.1.1.1
Exploiting 1.1.1.1

To find out the current status of your exploit you can use the jobs command:

shrimps@213.71.60.191:# / jobs
  pid            type           file           version        time_remaining 
  400            exploit        -              -              a few seconds      

Once the time_remaining says ready you can finish your exploit job by using the jobs finish 400 command. 400 is the pid of the job.

You now have successfully exploited the other system!

Step 3: Accessing the exploited system

You can access the exploited system by using the ssh command.
The username is root or the players username followed by an @ symbol and the IP address of the exploited system.

shrimps@213.71.60.191:# / ssh root@1.1.1.1
Connected to 1.1.1.1
root@1.1.1.1:# /

As you can see, the part in front of the # has changed to the user root on the system with the IP address 1.1.1.1

From here on, you can use all your commands just like before. You can list files, make directories, download or upload files etc.

Step 4: Disconnect

To disconnect from the remote system you use the exit command and you return to your system. You can see this as the part before the # changes to your username and your IP address:

root@1.1.1.1:# / exit
session closed
shrimps@213.71.60.191:# /

You can also connect from one system to another to hide your identity. How this works will be covered in another blog post.