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 part of the Google CTF (at goo.gle/ctf), an exhilarating 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, internet applied sciences, and extra. Individuals can use obscure safety data to seek out exploits by bugs and artistic 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 potential.
Final 12 months, groups assumed the position of Bartholomew (Mew for brief), the fuzzy and cute 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? Need 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 area, try our documentary H4CK1NG GOOGLE, it’s a good way to get acquainted with safety. We additionally suggest testing this 12 months’s Newbie’s Quest that’ll be launching later this summer time which can train you a few of 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 inquisitive about cybersecurity and moral hacking, we wish to invite you to affix us. Join the Google CTF to broaden your ability 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. Inquisitive about bug attempting to find Google? Try bughunters.google.com. See you there!
