10 teams made it to the finals in the ethical hacking competition organized by digital risk management company BI.Zone, Sber press service reported.
The tournament brought together 1326 teams from 117 countries in total.
According to the results of the competition, the top 10 teams from Russia, Indonesia, China, South Korea, Czech Republic and France will compete in the final, which will be held online in November 2023. First place will be awarded $10,000, second place $5,000 and third place $3,000.
The CTF (Capture the Flag) competition assesses participants’ skills in solving hands-on problems in cybersecurity: protecting and attacking computer systems, and finding and fixing vulnerabilities in services.
“We organize the CTFZone regularly: they help participants not only maintain and develop their skills, but also acquire new knowledge in a dynamic competitive format. The competitions have no clear boundaries and criteria, anyone with the necessary skills can participate, no matter what country they live in. In the past. many BI.ZONE experts have joined CTFZone “This helped them prepare in addition to working with real cyber attacks,” said Evgeny Voloshin, Director of the BI.Zone Security Analysis and Anti-Fraud Department.
In this year’s qualifying tournament, teams had to solve 26 tasks across 7 categories, including sports programming, exploits, cyber-attack investigation, cryptography and other cybersecurity areas. Therefore, as part of one of the tasks, participants had to neutralize a malicious file on a compromised computer. Another example of a task was decrypting a message sent using a secure messenger based on the Signal specification.