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ISFCR CryoVault Finals 2026

31 writeups ↗

The ISFCR finals set: braid-matrix crypto, DFIR, IoT firmware, pwn, rev and web.

ISFCR CTF 2026

63 writeups ↗

The home-team event: a full slate of pwn, crypto, web, forensics, IoT and mobile challenges.

H7CTF 2026

21 writeups ↗

Cloud, forensics, mobile, pwn and reverse engineering.

XploitX CTF 2026

30 writeups ↗

Crypto, pwn, steganography and network challenges.

GenCyS CTF 2026

4 writeups ↗

AI, cloud and Android security challenges.

NNS CTF 2026

6 writeups ↗

DevSecOps and web security.

SunshineCTF 2026

6 writeups ↗

Forensics and web.

TCTF 2026

3 writeups ↗

Web and miscellaneous challenges.

Lunar CTF 2026

4 writeups ↗

Digital forensics.

Luna CTF 2026

4 writeups ↗

Enterprise DFIR.

NOCT CTF 2026

2 writeups ↗

Web exploitation challenges.

SEC CTF 2026

2 writeups ↗

Crypto and web challenges.

K17 CTF 2026

1 writeups ↗

Beginner-friendly web challenges.

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AI 2Binary Exploitation 22Boot2root 2Cloud 2Cryptography 35DevSec 1Digital Forensics 31Hardware 2IoT 8Miscellaneous 8ML 4Mobile 9Networking 5OSINT 1Reverse Engineering 12Steganography 9Web Exploitation 24

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