Hungarian Cyber Security Challenge 2024 (HCSC’24)

Between 25th of April and 28th of April the 7th Hungarian Cyber Security Challenge (HCSC) was organized. The competition is organized by Special Service for National Security National Cyber-Security Center (NKI), the challenges were created by HoneyLab of University of Obuda and White Hat IT Security.

The official website of HCSC is: https://nki.gov.hu/en/rendezvenyek/hcsc/

The challenges were available at: https://ctfd.nki.gov.hu/

Some statistics about the competition:

• 12 categories
• 36 challenges
• 500+ registered competitiors
• 73 hours of hacking
• 248 competitors submitted at least 1 flag

I achieved the presitigious 2nd place. Congratulations to all other competitiors, especially the winners of each category. And of course, many thanks to the Organizers!

Normal challenges:

• crypto
  • Epiclit’l’ Curve
  • Handy
• forensics
  • Not a bad day
  • Note to self
• malware
  • Trampling
• misc
  • 2beornot2bee
  • Esoteric Hell
• mobile
  • ThereOTT
• network
  • Csak egy litván hálózat
  • Return of Jack
• osint
  • BoB
  • Creeper or griefer
• pwn
  • Prequel
  • Prequel’s revenge
• reverse
  • Patch Adams
  • Tutorial
• steganography
  • Cool o’ red Met Alls
  • For’n sics
  • Sniffing
• web
  • SeeQingeviL
  • Trekking
  • Válassz-egy-böngészőt
• welcome
  • Welcome

Forensics VM (defense) challenges:

• Forensics intro
• Forensics 1
• Forensics 2
• Forensics 3
• Forensics 4
• Forensics 5
• Forensics 6
• Forensics 7
• Forensics 8
• Forensics 9
• Forensics 10
• Forensics 11
• Forensics 12