FBK CyberSecurity Sponsors MIEM CTF 2018

FBK CyberSecurity has sponsored MIEM CTF 2018, a practical information security competition the final round of which was held at the HSE Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics.

Following an online qualification round 27 teams from all over Russia, from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, were invited to the final. Tasks for the competition were prepared by FBK’s experts Andrey Skuratov and Sergey Migalin together with members of the student organisation “Higher School CTF”.

“CTF is a great opportunity for cyber security specialists to show their skills and obtain new ones in a game. This is not the first time we arrange such events and this time we wanted not only to hold a top class competition but also to give the participants a treat of more unusual and practical tasks that are fun and interesting to handle,” said FBK CS’s IT Security Expert Andrey Skuratov.

The competition was organised as a task-based jeopardy and covered both standard categories (Web, Crypto, Reverse, Forensics, PPC etc.) and a special category that involved hacking an application operating based on a well-known video game Minecraft.

“Participating in a cyber security capture the flag competition allows young specialists to show their worth. Guys that can break encryption, attack web services with vulnerabilities and find a criminal using only his or her nickname and IP address in only eight hours have a bright future in the profession ahead of them,” said FBK CS’s IT Security Expert Sergey Migalin.

The following teams were among the winners: the third place –VoidHack from Ural Federal University, the second place – SFT0 from Bauman Moscow State Technical University and the first place – kks_wund3rw4ffl3_team from Russian Technological University.