Through: Where the raccoons burrow and rummage¶

A raccoon elbow-deep in a server rack at midnight, one eye on the corridor, a privilege token clamped in its teeth. Behind it: a dumpster tipped, three systems overturned, a registry picked clean. Ahead: another fence, another misconfigured service, another lid left loose. It has not decided where it lives yet. It is deciding now.

The Through phase is where attackers turn from guests into squatters, rummaging through your network like a raccoon in a midnight dumpster. Why smash doors when you can pick locks, tunnel through ducts, and loot the good stuff without anyone noticing? We escalate privileges like raccoons scaling fences, pivot through systems like they’re overturned trash cans, and leave every registry/keyhole/data cache thoroughly pilfered. The goal? Turn “I’m in” into “I own the place”, one misconfigured service at a time.