Every day we&nbsp;leave informational traces about ourselves all over the place, whether it&rsquo;s just open data or&nbsp;leaks of&nbsp;private data. 
Can this information be&nbsp;used by&nbsp;cybercriminals to&nbsp;reveal our secrets?

You&rsquo;re invited to&nbsp;take part in&nbsp;a&nbsp;heist competition. Participants must form teams of&nbsp;three people with the goal of&nbsp;hacking a&nbsp;safe and stealing the owner&rsquo;s secrets. The key here is&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;faster than the other competitors. After breaking into the office, you&rsquo;ll get only 300 seconds before being discovered. In&nbsp;that time, you must solve a&nbsp;series of&nbsp;logic puzzles while avoiding booby traps. Bear in&nbsp;mind that the safe is&nbsp;protected by&nbsp;three layers of&nbsp;security.

Some of&nbsp;the competition&rsquo;s tasks are provided online.
[competition entry point](https://databreakout.phdays.fun/)

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AI Track: Data Breakout

Welcome to&nbsp;the $natch contest!

Your task is&nbsp;to&nbsp;hack a&nbsp;bank, an&nbsp;ATM, a&nbsp;mobile bank, and a&nbsp;cash register. 

Contest tasks

1. ATM. You will be&nbsp;given an&nbsp;image of&nbsp;an&nbsp;ATM, in&nbsp;which you must complete a&nbsp;variety of&nbsp;creative tasks (ranging from very easy to&nbsp;incredibly difficult) and earn flags. There will be&nbsp;traditional tasks, such as&nbsp;bypassing the kiosk, bypassing AppLocker, and obtaining maximum privileges, as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;completely new and original ones. 

2. Web banking, mobile banking, and cash register. Here the goal is&nbsp;to&nbsp;simply find as&nbsp;many vulnerabilities as&nbsp;possible. All the vulnerabilities that you will encounter have been previously discovered by&nbsp;researchers.

This year, the results will be&nbsp;displayed on&nbsp;an&nbsp;online scoreboard.

Our experts will be&nbsp;available at&nbsp;the stand to&nbsp;give you hints on&nbsp;which direction to&nbsp;move&nbsp;in, if&nbsp;you&rsquo;re not sure where to&nbsp;start.

We&nbsp;have a&nbsp;prize fund for each track of&nbsp;this contest. Find vulnerabilities, write and submit reports, win prizes, and most importantly&mdash;enjoy your hacking!

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$natch

The future is&nbsp;already here. Not too long ago, money transfers had to&nbsp;be&nbsp;arranged through a&nbsp;bank. Today, you can send your funds directly and without intermediaries&mdash;just connect to&nbsp;the blockchain!
Smart contracts are the decentralized blockchain analogs of&nbsp;banks, insurance companies, and electronic voting systems.

You&rsquo;re going to&nbsp;face a&nbsp;series of&nbsp;challenges around hacking smart contracts on&nbsp;the Polygon Mumbai testnet: you must either withdraw all the funds from a&nbsp;smart contract or&nbsp;set its flag (the value of&nbsp;the contract&rsquo;s Boolean state variable) to&nbsp;true, depending on&nbsp;the given challenge.

To&nbsp;participate in&nbsp;the contest, you&rsquo;ll need a&nbsp;computer or&nbsp;laptop connected to&nbsp;the Internet with a&nbsp;crypto wallet installed (preferably Metamask) to&nbsp;sign smart contract transactions, as&nbsp;well as&nbsp;some MATIC test tokens to&nbsp;pay for the transactions.

MATIC for participation in the competition can be obtained through the official facet: [mumbaifaucet.com]( https://mumbaifaucet.com/)

The number of&nbsp;points awarded depends on&nbsp;the number of&nbsp;challenges you solve and how fast you solve them.
Link to [online platform](https://blockchain-ctf.ptsecurity.com/)

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ETHical Hacking

We&nbsp;welcome all tech enthusiasts to&nbsp;the Wireless Fuzzy Frenzy Contest!

In&nbsp;today&rsquo;s world, we&rsquo;re constantly swimming in&nbsp;an&nbsp;invisible information stream. Hundreds of&nbsp;different devices create electromagnetic pulses, constantly transmitting and receiving data at&nbsp;incredible speeds. But what could this alien, otherworldly dimension hide?

This competition is&nbsp;for those who want to&nbsp;test their skills in&nbsp;the field of&nbsp;wireless networks. 
Grab your (Wi-Fi-enabled) laptop and get ready for an&nbsp;exciting adventure. You&rsquo;ll have to&nbsp;listen to&nbsp;the airwaves and scope out the location in&nbsp;search of&nbsp;secrets. 

To&nbsp;participate in&nbsp;the competition, you need to&nbsp;be&nbsp;present on-site, but that gives you a&nbsp;chance to&nbsp;work freely and privately. Don&rsquo;t miss this opportunity to&nbsp;put your skills to&nbsp;the test and best the other participants!

Join our [Telegram group](https://t.me/WiFuzzyFrenz)

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Wireless Fuzzy Frenzy

The **IDS Bypass** contest is&nbsp;held for the fourth time. This competition is&nbsp;for those who want to&nbsp;test the strength of&nbsp;network protection systems. Participants must hack six hosts and steal the flags. They are opposed by&nbsp;an&nbsp;intrusion detection system (IDS), which checks traffic and blocks attack attempts using network rules and complex modules. If&nbsp;you get caught, the Telegram bot will notify you and tell you the name of&nbsp;the triggered rule. 

Vulnerable services are selected so&nbsp;that competitors focus their efforts on&nbsp;bypassing the IDS, and the number of&nbsp;possible solutions is&nbsp;unlimited. You will need a&nbsp;computer with an&nbsp;Internet connection. You can access the contest network via VPN and get the configuration files from the Telegram bot. There will be&nbsp;a&nbsp;network switch and cables at&nbsp;the stand for a&nbsp;faster connection.

You can get acquainted with the analysis of&nbsp;the competition of&nbsp;the previous year on&nbsp;Habr: [https://habr.com/ru/company/pt/blog/669068/](https://habr.com/ru/company/pt/blog/669068/).

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IDS Bypass

Challenge yourself to&nbsp;attack a&nbsp;web application protected by&nbsp;a&nbsp;security filter. The application contains a&nbsp;bunch of&nbsp;vulnerabilities, which, if&nbsp;exploited properly, will allow execution of&nbsp;OS commands, among other things. Now, we&nbsp;all know very well that hacking applications is&nbsp;a&nbsp;serious matter and should be&nbsp;approached with a&nbsp;sober and responsible mindset. So, to&nbsp;spice up&nbsp;the challenge, each 5&nbsp;minutes we&nbsp;will slightly (by&nbsp;50&nbsp;ml) complicate the work of&nbsp;those participants whose actions the WAF most often reacts&nbsp;to. The winner is&nbsp;the player who earns the most points during the competition. And there will be&nbsp;valuable prizes at&nbsp;stake!

Please note that all participants must be&nbsp;of&nbsp;legal age and must sign an&nbsp;agreement before the game to&nbsp;accept responsibility for the consequences of&nbsp;participating in&nbsp;the competition.

You will need a&nbsp;laptop (any software is&nbsp;allowed), and we&nbsp;will provide a&nbsp;wired connection to&nbsp;the contest segment.

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