Next week, we will participate in FAUST CTF, an online attack-defense CTF. We will meet up at SBA Research and participate together.
If you are curious about participating, what CTFs are or what's special about attack-defense CTFs, we are hosting this preparation meetup as part of our weekly CTF/Security meetup series. If you can't make it to the meetup, but still want to participate in the CTF, please contact us.
Where: @EI3A, TU Wien (Gußhausstraße 25, 1040 Wien, 2nd Floor)
Where: @SBA Research (Favoritenstrasse 16, 1040 Wien, 1st Floor) When: Monday, 09.04.2018, 18:30 (CEST) What: Recap of past CTFs/challenges $YOUR_TOPIC_HERE$ and of course Socializing ;)...
yacs is a tool to store and later retrieve text snippets. If you store program source code there, it can even compile it for you! So handy. Of course, everything is protected using state-of-the-art user authorization and password hashing. It's a big C++ compiled binary which uses a local SQLite database file for data storage. Here's a normal create/list paste workflow: ___...
We participated in the RuCTF Finals 2017 and finished 12th.
Last Sunday we had the pleasure to participate in the RuCTF Finals 2017 in Yekaterinburg, Russia. After a long day of attacking other teams and defending our own services we managed to secure the 12th place out of 23 active teams. The services we had to work on were really interesting and quite diverse. But a really nice touch to the game was the actual hardware separation of services. Instead of providing a virtual machine...
Where: @SBA Research (Favoritenstrasse 16, 1040 Wien, 1st Floor) When: Monday, 09.01.2017, 18:30 (CET) What: Recap of past CTFs/challenges What to change in 2017? $YOUR_TOPIC_HERE$ and of course Socializing ;)...
The description of the challenge was as follows: There has been some strange transactions on this blockchain! Let's do some research. After downloading and extracting the data (fbi300_64635d9aa64b20d0.7z) is was clear that we where looking at at a .bitcoin folder of a bitcoin-core client hat was started in regtest mode. As a first guess we used bitcoin-abe to read and analyze the blockchain. (https://github.com/bitcoin-abe/bitcoin-abe). Since bitcoin-abe looks out-of-the-box in the default bitcoin directory ($HOME/.bitcoin/blcoks/*) the only thing we...
The description of the challenge was as follows: In this challenge you are presented with a PCAP that comes from a network infected by a well known SCADA related APT Threat (hint: pay attention to potential C&C) Identify the relevant packets related to the malware and attempt to find the flag in the normal format So first we had to download and unpack the relevant file. After fiddling around with wireshark we identified a suspiciously looking HTTP...
We participated in the iCTF 2015 and finished 8th.
Last Friday we participated in this year's iCTF. For the first time the services were not written by the organizers, but each team had to provide a service themselves in order to participate. Although this meant that there were fewer teams this year, still 30 teams took up the challenge in total. The organizers also got some angry comments for this setup, and they liked one of them so much that their unofficial theme...
We participated in the hack.lu CTF and finished 45th.
The past two days we were busy hacking in the hack.lu CTF. The challenges by fluxfingers were superb as always, and we solved quite some of them. Kudos to the top three teams, what a photo finish! You can find the scoreboard here....
This semester, we are looking for fresh blood to expand our team. If you think you have what it takes to deal with the challenges of interactive hacking challenges, live trouble-shooting for flaky Internet connections, defending online services which you have never seen before and the forensics skills to pinpoint exploits in a gbit connection, drop us an email at iwant2pwn@w0y.at Please include which security courses you have completed so far at TU...
We have a new homepage. And yes, we are on Twitter, too ...
Since this week we now have a public website, which will be updated with news and writeups. We are now on Twitter too, which will be used for live coverage from actual contest. Next week is the hack.lu CTF, and we will participate....
In this years iCTF2014-2015, themed "hacking at scale", we reached the 3rd place out of more than 80 participating universities.
Last Friday we participated in the ictf2014 and reached the 3rd place out of more than 80 participating universities. This years theme was "hacking at scale" with 42 services to pwn, most of which had been reused from previous iCTF's. We constantly improved our score during the CTF until we were at the second place about one hour before the end with only Team Bushwhackers in front of us. However, SpamAndHex did an incredible finish,...