Adam Bannister December 24, 2021 12:16 UTC
Update time: December 24, 2021 12:17 UTC
More than a dozen teams compete in cloud, IoT, OSINT, forensics and machine learning challenges
A Romanian team ended a series of near misses and crowned Trend Micro’s 2021 champion Raymond Gene Cup.
PwnThyBytes finally topped the list in the finals of the annual Capture the Flag (CTF) cybersecurity competition. 2020 year And 2019, and the third place in the 2018 edition.
The Chinese team Bad Guesser finished second, while the South Korean team CodeRed (repeat the 2020 ranking) finished third.
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In the 24 hours from December 18th to 19th, 12 teams from 14 countries/regions participated in 17 information security challenges in the fields of cloud, mobile, OSINT, forensics, Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning.
The first two teams are tied in the “reversal” in each category column, among which PwnThyBytes won Commander.
PwnThyBytes received a bonus of 1 million yen ($9,000), while Bad Guesser and CodeRed received 300,000 yen ($2,600) and 200,000 yen ($1,800), respectively.
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Players of the winning team also received 15,000 Zero-Day Plan (ZDI) Reward plan Points, PwnThyBytes will become the seed of the 2022 competition.
The finals used a “dynamic hazard” scoring method, which adjusts the total score based on the number of teams that solve a particular challenge.
The 10 finalists qualified through the 24-hour online qualifying competition in September.
‘Key corporate strategy’
“The dramatic fluctuations in today’s threat landscape and the scale of modern enterprise attack surfaces are pushing existing security practitioners to their limits,” Say Mike Gibson, Vice President of Customer Success and Security Research at Trend Micro, a US-Japan information security company.
“In this rapidly changing world, organizations must ensure that their IT security team has the skills suitable for the job. The talented participants in this year’s Capture the Flag are a strong guarantee for the future.”
Jonn Perez, Senior Director of Vulnerability Response and Critical Support Operations, Trend Micro Research, told Drink it every day: “In general, considering the global security community’s high level of concern about Log4Shell vulnerabilities, this event went very smoothly, but it provides an interesting and educational channel for CTF event organizers and competitors.”
Perez said that after the 2020 and 2021 finals were held in a virtual manner through Discord servers due to Covid-19, Trend Micro hopes to return to a hybrid format in the eighth competition in 2022-online qualifiers, and then It was a face-to-face final in Toronto.
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