CyBRICS is a computer security competition (CTF) organized in a cross-university effort by BRICS countries academia.

In 2020 the event is organized by ITMO University and run by SPbCTF meetups crew (members of CTF teams LC↯BC, SiBears, PeterPEN, Yozik).

What's a CTF

CTFs are competitive hacking events: like ACM ICPC, but in computer security. Teams get a number of tasks or challenges about cryptography, binary reverse engineering, web vulnerabilities, network security, digital forensics, etc — all the topics that computer security engineers work with.

Each challenge has a goal, e.g. find a vulnerability and extract the administrator's password from website database. Upon solving the challenge, team gets a flag — some secret string like cybrics{Na5JRe_g0_G3u_Z1P_Pu3PX}. Team submits it in exchange for points. The team with most points, wins.

To be successful in a CTF, you basically need to know computer systems good and deep.

More info about CTFs on CTFtime website.

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Sat, July 25^th, 2020 10:00 UTC — Sun, July 26^th, 2020 10:00 UTC (24 hours)

The competition is open to any teams, with any number of people.

Jeopardy Format

There will be 28 challenges assorted into seven categories:

• Web — web technologies and vulnerabilities,
• Forensics — analyzing data formats, logs and digital evidence,
• Reversing — understanding the algorithm of an executable,
• Network — messing with packets and examining packet dumps,
• CTB — Crack-The-Box, getting code execution on a remote box,
• Cyber and rebyC — miscellaneous challenges, everything else: cryptography, fun quirks, coding, etc.

Each category will have four difficulty levels: Baby, Easy, Medium and Hard.

Dynamic scoring will be used: the more teams solve a challenge, the less it will cost in the end.

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1^st place: 3 000 USD (220 000 RUB)

2^nd place: 2 000 USD (145 000 RUB)

3^rd place: 1 000 USD (75 000 RUB)

In addition to cash prizes, we have some special awards for you from our beloved partners:

• XCTF League gives the CyBRICS 2020 winner a spot in on-site XCTF Finals in China. It's a yearly event that clashes winners of multiple CTFs in an Attack-Defense competition for some good prizes. Place and date will be notified later, after COVID is over.

• Positive Technologies invites each of the Top-3 teams to the PHDays 10 international infosec convention in Moscow. 5 tickets per team will be awarded. Positive Hack Days is a spectacular yearly event that features multi-track talks with speakers from all over the world, fun activities and plenty of contests on the spot. Date will be notified later, after COVID is over.

• BI.ZONE will provide each Top-3 team with 5 tickets to their OFFZONE 3.0 security conference, also in Moscow. OFFZONE will be held for the third time next year, and in addition to international speakers, on-site CTF and tattoos, it rocks a separate zone devoted to Hardware Security and one on Financial Security. Date will be notified later, after COVID is over.

Register for CyBRICS 2020 →

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Don't Ruin the Fun for Players

CTFs allow using any means or tools to solve challenges and outperform other teams.

At the same time, some actions can break the fun for other people. For example:

• Don't delete flags or break services. While organizers try to maintain challenge resilience, mistakes will be made. Instead of abusing them, report them to the orgas for kudos.
• Don't share flags or ask for flags. It's a competition, do your personal best.

Don't Ruin the Fun for Orgas

For example:

• Don't generate excessive load. Bruteforcing or DirBusting will not be necessary, let's keep it down.
• Don't troll, spam, flood in the chats.
• Don't register multiple accounts.

Organizers will guard the fun by punishing the fun-ruiners.

Do Your Best and Have Fun

Good luck!

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Should any questions arise, please contact us at

E-mail: orgs@cybrics.net
Telegram: @cybrics
WeChat: spbctf