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 area 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 information to seek out exploits by bugs and inventive misuse, and with every accomplished problem your group will earn factors and transfer up by 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 seek out intelligent methods to abuse the sport options to seize flags as shortly as attainable.
Final yr, 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 yr? See the 2023 grand remaining 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? Need to study extra, or get a leg up on the competitors? Evaluation 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 house, try our documentary H4CK1NG GOOGLE, it’s a good way to get acquainted with safety. We additionally advocate testing this yr’s Newbie’s Quest that’ll be launching later this summer time which can train you a number of the instruments and methods with less complicated gamified challenges. For instance, final yr we explored hacking by time – you should utilize this to arrange 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 affix us. Join the Google CTF to develop your talent set, meet new associates within the safety neighborhood, and even watch the professionals in motion. For the newest bulletins, see goo.gle/ctf, subscribe to our mailing record, or observe us on Twitter @GoogleVRP. All for bug attempting to find Google? Try bughunters.google.com. See you there!
