Attack Vectors_
Choose your target
Four categories, multiple challenges, one objective. The challenge database itself stays classified until the competition begins.
Break the cipher
Recognize patterns, decode information, analyze encryption methods, and recover hidden messages across modern and historical schemes.
Find the vulnerability
Investigate web applications, understand how they behave, identify vulnerabilities, and find ways to reach protected information.
Follow the evidence
Examine digital evidence and uncover information hidden inside files, metadata, logs, network data and other artifacts.
Connect the clues
Investigate publicly available information, search effectively, connect clues, and identify relevant intelligence.
Threat levels
Complexity is scaled across five levels. Harder challenges demand deeper investigation and typically award more points; values are assigned dynamically at launch based on solve rates.
Flag protocol
Select
Choose a challenge from the available categories.
Investigate
Analyze the provided target, files, clues or information.
Find the flag
Discover the flag hidden inside the challenge.
Submit
Enter the flag into the competition platform.
Score
A valid flag adds points to the team's total.