The year is almost over and there’s one thing that always marks this period: the end of one of our biggest and most hyped events. You probably already know what I’m talking about… but just in case you don’t (or even worse, have no idea what the most awaited event of the year is) let…
Read MoreSummer is over, autumn is here – and so is the most anticipated event of the year for cybersecurity students: WP CTF 2025. Every year, the WP CTF draws cybersecurity students hungry to learn, compete, and put their skills to the test. Our marketing team has been working for months to organize an incredible event,…
Read MoreStepping Deeper into the CTF World It seems that this year, I’m a step further into the world of Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions: not sure why but I don’t regret it. We’re only halfway through the year, and I’ve already participated in three events. Not a huge amount, but a noticeable jump considering that…
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The 2024 edition of the WP CTF has ended, and we are thrilled to announce its resounding success! This year, approximately 80 participants formed teams from across Europe, including Greece, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. Staying true to tradition, WP CTF 2024 featured a Jeopardy-style competition with diverse categories such as AI, Cryptography, OSINT, Web,…
Read MoreHello everyone, today I’d like to show you how we exploited the Not a democratic election challenge from HTB Business CTF 2024. This challenge is of type Blockchain and is based on Solidity Smart Contracts for Ethereum. Since the official exploit uses Foundry, and I couldn’t run Foundry on my workstation, I’d like to report…
Read MoreDuring WP-CTF 2023 hosted at Würth Phoenix headquarters, a fresh set of CTF challenges were unveiled. These challenges spanned various fields, including OSINT, Digital Forensics, and Blockchain investigations. In this article, I’m going to delve into the solutions for some challenges presented by the Würth-Phoenix security team. THE FIRST CHALLENGE The first challenge, titled “There…
Read MoreFor those who don’t know, several of us at Wuerth-Phoenix often participate in Capture The Flag (CTF) events. CTFs are programming challenges where a message (the flag) is hidden somewhere inside code, an application or a website. Usually they are divided into different categories, and within this article we’ll focus on a forensics challenge. I…
Read MoreThe Cyber Apocalypse CTF is back with the 2022 edition. It’s a Jeopardy-style competition organized by Hack The Box and is open to everyone. Together as a security-focused guild (a concept taken from the Spotify model) we here at Würth Phoenix participated in this challenge and in particular I focused on the web challenges. After…
Read MoreOn January 29th, I attended my first CTF (capture the flag) competition: the Insomni’hack teaser.Based on my skills, I decided to go for the challenge called Vault which consists of a web-based vault of five pages: a home page, one where you can see the key/value pair you entered after logging in, a page for…
Read MoreAt Wuerth Phoenix, we recently introduced a security-focused guild, and decided to attend our first security CTF (Capture The Flag) challenge: RomHack CTF 2021. After panicking initially (there were really difficult challenges!) we stayed calm, and managed to solve the table of contents challenge in the ‘pwn’ category, which made our team finish in 21st…
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