Ashiri’s CTF notepad

CTF challenges, solutions, tricks that may come in handy

UTCTF 2024

This CTF was organized by the University of Texas, Austin’s Info Security association. I participated as part of the team Weak But Leet and we were placed 9th out of approximately 900 teams participating. ...

Jersey CTF 2024

Another edition of JerseyCTF, organized by NJIT. It is my third year of participating in this CTF and it was as much fun as the other years. ...

MAPNA CTF

Organized by Asis, this CTF seems to be sponsored by an energy consortium called the MAPNA group. The challenges were indeed … challenging! ...

Iris CTF 2024

A very nice, high quality CTF organized by IrisSec. It had several good quality Signals/RF related challenges, which is rare in the CTFs. I used the little time I had to play in this CTF focusing on the RF challenges. ...

January 7, 2024 9 min

Backdoor CTF from IIT Roorkee

A very nice CTF organized by the Info Sec club at IIT Roorkee. A very high quality set of challenges in all categories. ...

December 17, 2023 14 min

Wargames.my CTF 2023

A CTF organized by a team from Malaysia. It was a tidy little event with some interesting challenges. ...

December 15, 2023 7 min

Ping CTF 2023

I focused on the Crypto challenges in this CTF. The challenges were of excellent quality. ...

TUCTF

A really nice CTF hosted annually by the CTF club at the University of Tulsa. I really enjoyed some of the challenges here. ...

December 3, 2023 9 min

Glacier CTF by LosFuzzys

This is a CTF contest hosted by LosFuzzys. The challenges were of good quality. I would rate them to be of intermediate to hard level. I played with the team Weak But Leet and we were placed 44th. ...

Intigriti 1337Up CTF

A CTF organized by Intigriti. It had some interesting challenges. I mainly attempted the crypto category. ...

UD Bluehens CTF

CTF from University of Delaware. ...

October 30, 2023 5 min

Deadface CTF

I played this CTF with a newbie highschool CTF team. My goal was to introduce them to CTFs and the variety of challenges. This CTF was perfect for that purpose. They had over 60 challenges covering many aspects of Cybersec. The innovative, immersive experience that showed both the offensive and defensive aspects of cybersec was extremely educational. Further, the graphics for the challenges were fantastic! Crypto Coin Code We found this image of a coin that belongs to a member of DEADFACE....

October 22, 2023 6 min