CTF competitions

Solo run in picoCTF 2026 on the CyLab Security Academy platform (the evolution of Carnegie Mellon's PicoCTF). Over ten competition days I earned 11,800 points from 63 solves, placing 495th globally out of 8,747 players. Strongest categories were General Skills (17/17) and Forensics (8/8); I also cleared all Blockchain challenges (4/4) and nearly completed Binary Exploitation (7/8) and Cryptography (11/12).

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I completed this CTF in just 2 hours on my own, solving challenges across multiple categories. The reverse engineering challenges were particularly harder but fun, pushing me to think creatively and apply advanced techniques. I successfully completed all challenges in Binary Exploitation (2/2), Cryptography (1/1), Forensics (4/4), General Skills (1/1), and Reverse Engineering (2/2), along with Web Exploitation challenges.

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I solved various challenges in specifically: AI (prompt injection), web exploitation and other complex categories, such as reverse engineering. This was a great CTF, I enjoyed playing this a lot. What motivated me the most was the community and the funny memes in the challenges itself. It was a mix of learning hacking and entertainment.

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I solved various challenges in categories like: OSINT, web exploitation, cryptography and more. This was a very fun but hard CTF since there were 60+ challenges and I was solo. Although I was on my own, I made as many challenges as I possibly could and ended up completing 10/60 challenges. This was a very fun CTF, and gave me a new perspective on things like OSINT and complex challenges.

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This CTF was a very interesting CTF for me. This was my first solo, and Hack The Box CTF. Out of the 5 complex challenges which were given 2 days for, I solved 1 very hard challenge, it was a Flask-based web application which generated certificates based off of input fields, and were vulnerable to SSTI.

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This was my very first CTF, which was luckily beginner-based. I completed several challenges in the following categories: binary exploitation, cryptography, general skills and web exploitation. This first CTF was a great learning for me and was very fun to play and taught me fundamental concepts which could help me in other CTFs.

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