On November 3, 2023, the Escuela de CTFs@UZ held its fourth CTF (Capture The Flag) event, the first CTF in the course 2023/2024. It was a 2-hour hacking event in which participants had to solve technical challenges that required knowledge from various disciplines. The participants had to cooperate in teams of up to 2 members, although individual teams were also allowed. Both types of teams performed quite well!
Additionally, we allowed two kind of teams in this event: juniors and seniors. We consider as junior teams the new people enrolled in “Escuela de CTFs@UZ” (in this academic year) and as senior teams the people that participated last year with us in “Escuela de CTFs@UZ” (course 2022-2023).
The event was a success from our point of view. We had a total of 17 participants, divided into 4 junior teams and 5 senior teams. During the event itself we all enjoyed the experience of facing and solving problems (both the participants and the organization!).
We prepared a series of entry-level, beginner-friendly challenges for our participants to solve.
During the competition, we published a set of challenges spread across various categories such as: Binary Exploitation, Web, Networking, Forensics, OSINT, Crypto, Steganography, and Misc.
The winning team was Team Rocket.
The second place was CAB41105
The winning team was I2000C.
The second place was
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The award ceremony is still pending. Stay tuned for updates!
From the organization we want to thank all the participants who have enjoyed as much as we did during the execution of this CTF. We look forward to the next one! Keep hacking!