Notable CTFs
Overview
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[Finalist] C2C CTF
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Top 9.4% Industrial Intrusion CTF
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Top 10% CSAW CTF
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Top 18% Hack The Box Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2025
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[Top 24%] Jersey CTF (solo team)
Read more about the above CTF events below.
C2C CTF
Country to Country CTF (7th Feb- 9th Feb 2025)
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Challenges: The competition featured 20+ challenges across a wide range of categories, including Cryptography, OSINT, Binary, Forensics, and Web. I managed to solve 11 of these challenges, earning 2360 points and securing 81st Place in the global leaderboard.
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I made it to the Finals and competed against the best in July at Northeastern University, Boston. While we did not win the competition, we did not give up until the last moment of the finals and scored more than 8000 points, of which I scored 2000 points for the team and made some great connections with other hackers around the world.
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Industrial Intrusion CTF by TryHackMe
Date: June 27th – June 29th, 2025
Participants: 19,712 players | 5950 teams
Performance: Rank #543 (Top 9.4%)
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This was an International CTF competition hosted by TryHackMe, featuring challenges across various domains.
CSAW'24
CSAW'24 Capture The Flag (6th SEP- 8th SEP)
Participants: Over 1,181 teams competed globally.
Challenges: The competition featured 30 challenges across a wide range of categories, including Crypto, OSINT, Reversing, Forensics, Pwn, and Web. Our team managed to solve 22 of these challenges, showcasing our versatility and skills.
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Team Performance: Our team, UMBC Cyberdawgs, is the official CTF team from UMBC. Our team performed exceptionally well, placing 116th out of 1,181 teams with 2,680 points, positioning us in the top 10%.​​
Hack the Box: Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2025: Tales from Eldoria
Date: March 21 – March 26, 2025
Participants: 18,369 players | 8,130 teams
Performance: Rank #1503 (Top 18%)
Challenges Solved: 12/14 | Score: 9,925 points
Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2025 was a global Jeopardy-style competition hosted by Hack The Box, featuring challenges across Web, Blockchain, Crypto, Reversing, Pwn, Forensics, Coding, OSINT, Machine Learning, AI, and Secure Coding.
Despite joining at the last moment as I was studying for my Digital Forensics exam, I pulled an all-nighter and managed to solve 12 out of 14 challenges, contributing 9,925 points to my team’s total.
We secured Rank #1503, placing in the top 18% worldwide.
One of the most exciting challenges involved AI prompt injection, where I creatively interacted with AI models to extract flags—an experience that was both fun and a great learning opportunity.
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Jersey CTF (29th MAR - 30th MAR)
Participants: Over 407 teams competed globally, with 1300+ participants. I competed as a solo in this competition.
Challenges: The competition featured 52 challenges across a wide range of categories, including Crypto, OSINT, Reversing, Forensics, Binary, and Web. I managed to solve 10 of these challenges.
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Performance: I secured #100th out of 407 teams with 5,045 points, positioning me in the top 24% as a solo team.​​