Translation. Region: Russian Federal
Source: Novosibirsk State University – Novosibirsk State University –
T-Bank held the annual computer security competition T-Bank Capture the Flag* (T-CTF). Information security specialists, developers, SRE and QA engineers, analysts and other IT specialists could participate. The event was held online and offline in six Russian cities where T-Bank IT hubs are located.
Three teams from NSU were in the top 20 of the competition. The team “Big Hamster Weekend Point PAS” took 1st place, the team “tralalero tralala” took 3rd place, and the team “CYBERSQD” entered the top twenty.
The T-CTF competition has been running since 2023 and is based on web security, application and infrastructure security, cryptography, and general intelligence challenges.
— These are classic “task” (i.e., with tasks, not attack-defense) CTF competitions. Within the framework of such competitions, participants solve various tasks from the world of information security and receive points for them. In particular, they hack programs, websites, codes, do computer forensics and much more, — said Roman Lebedev, a graduate Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) NSU and senior lecturer of the Department of Computer Systems (KafKS) FIT NSU, member of the winning team.
The Big Hamster Weekend Dot PAS team also included Vladimir Sitnov, a graduate of the NSU FIT and assistant of the KAFKS FIT NSU, Roman Fedoseyev, a graduate Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of NSUThe team has participated in these offline competitions every year, and this year was no exception.
— The impressions are excellent, these competitions delight us with the quality and spirit of the tasks year after year. Their authors are the SPbCTF community, which manages to offer tasks that usually have a simple and elegant solution, but at the same time it is difficult to find. In most other competitions there are fewer original ideas, and more monotonous work.
There was a strict limit on the number of participants for each team – 3 people, the competition was quite serious, nevertheless, the NSU representatives managed to show excellent results.
“We come to these competitions to spend time, like in the old days, and solve interesting problems. There was no goal to take prize places, it just happens,” Roman Lebedev shared his impressions.
The team “tralalero tralala”, which took 3rd place, included Ivan Baksheev and Dmitry Makogon, both second-year master’s students at the NSU Institute of Information Technologies, and Dmitry Baryshev, a second-year master’s student at ITMO, St. Petersburg. The team “CYBERSQD”, which entered the top 20, included Alexey Vishnevsky, a first-year student at the NSU Institute of Information Technologies, Danis Ivanchenko and Ivan Dudnik, first-year students at PSUTI and SSAU.
— We connected online from home, although it was possible to participate offline at the sites provided by the organizer. CTF is traditionally well organized thanks to the SpbCTF team. The tasks were quite complex, but interesting, ideological, and did not require monotonous work.
In T-CTF, the traditional mascot is a capybara. This year, the capybara theme was presented to the maximum: a separate city of Kapibarovsk was created, and the scenarios of all tasks were dedicated to capybaras. All teams that entered the top 20 were presented with a toy capybara. And cash prizes were provided for 1, 2, 3 places.
— I would like to note how well Novosibirsk has shown itself this year — the Siberians took 1st and 3rd place in the security league and 3rd place in the development league. Thus, the prize places were shared with Moscow 50 to 50, — Ivan Baksheev shared.
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