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 way of June 23 2024 6:00 PM UTC. Registration is now open at goo.gle/ctf.
Be 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 information to search out exploits by way of bugs and inventive misuse, and with every accomplished problem your group will earn factors and transfer up by way of the ranks.
The highest 8 groups of the Google CTF will qualify for our Hackceler8 competitors going down in Málaga, Spain later this yr as part of our bigger Escal8 occasion. Hackceler8 is our experimental esport-style hacking recreation competitors, custom-made to combine CTF and speedrunning.
Screenshot from final yr’s Hackceler8 recreation
Within the competitors, groups want to search out intelligent methods to abuse the sport options to seize flags as shortly as potential.
Final yr, groups assumed the function of Bartholomew (Mew for brief), the fuzzy and lovable protagonist of Hackceler8 2023, set to defeat and overcome the evil rA.Ibbit taking on Silicon Valley! What adventures will Mew encounter this yr? See the 2023 grand ultimate to get a way of the story and gameplay. The prize pool for this yr’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? Assessment 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!
In case you are simply beginning out on this house, try our documentary H4CK1NG GOOGLE, it’s a good way to get acquainted with safety. We additionally advocate trying out this yr’s Newbie’s Quest that’ll be launching later this summer time which can educate you a few of the instruments and methods with easier gamified challenges. For instance, final yr we explored hacking by way of time – you should use this to organize for what’s but to come back.
Whether or not you’re a seasoned CTF participant or simply interested in cybersecurity and moral hacking, we need to invite you to hitch us. Join the Google CTF to increase your talent set, meet new associates within the safety group, and even watch the professionals in motion. For the newest bulletins, see goo.gle/ctf, subscribe to our mailing record, or comply with us on Twitter @GoogleVRP. Taken with bug trying to find Google? Take a look at bughunters.google.com. See you there!