It’s Google CTF time! Set up your instruments, commit your scripts, and clear your schedule. The competitors kicks off on June 21 2024 6:00 PM UTC and runs by June 23 2024 6:00 PM UTC. Registration is now open at goo.gle/ctf.
Be a part of the Google CTF (at goo.gle/ctf), an exciting enviornment to showcase your technical prowess. The Google CTF consists of a set of pc safety puzzles (or challenges) involving reverse-engineering, reminiscence corruption, cryptography, net applied sciences, and extra. Individuals can use obscure safety data to seek out exploits by bugs and inventive misuse, and with every accomplished problem your workforce will earn factors and transfer up by the ranks.
The highest 8 groups of the Google CTF will qualify for our Hackceler8 competitors happening in Málaga, Spain later this 12 months as part of our bigger Escal8 occasion. Hackceler8 is our experimental esport-style hacking sport competitors, custom-made to combine CTF and speedrunning.
Screenshot from final 12 months’s Hackceler8 sport
Within the competitors, groups want to seek out intelligent methods to abuse the sport options to seize flags as rapidly as attainable.
Final 12 months, groups assumed the function of Bartholomew (Mew for brief), the fuzzy and lovely protagonist of Hackceler8 2023, set to defeat and overcome the evil rA.Ibbit taking up Silicon Valley! What adventures will Mew encounter this 12 months? See the 2023 grand closing to get a way of the story and gameplay. The prize pool for this 12 months’s Google CTF and Hackceler8 stands at greater than $32,000.
Itching to get began early? Wish to be taught extra, or get a leg up on the competitors? Evaluate challenges from earlier years, together with earlier Hackceler8 matches, all open-sourced right here. Or acquire inspiration by binge watching hours of Hackceler8 2023 movies!
If you’re simply beginning out on this area, take a look at our documentary H4CK1NG GOOGLE, it’s an effective way to get acquainted with safety. We additionally suggest trying out this 12 months’s Newbie’s Quest that’ll be launching later this summer time which can educate you among the instruments and tips with less complicated gamified challenges. For instance, final 12 months we explored hacking by time – you need to use this to organize for what’s but to return.
Whether or not you’re a seasoned CTF participant or simply interested by cybersecurity and moral hacking, we need to invite you to affix us. Join the Google CTF to broaden your ability set, meet new pals within the safety neighborhood, and even watch the professionals in motion. For the most recent bulletins, see goo.gle/ctf, subscribe to our mailing record, or observe us on Twitter @GoogleVRP. Excited about bug attempting to find Google? Try bughunters.google.com. See you there!
