BYUCTF 2026 writeup — all 15 challenges across crypto, forensics, reverse and web

BYUCTF 2026 Writeup: All 15 Challenges

Platform BYUCTF 2026 Difficulty Mixed (Easy → Hard) OS Jeopardy (Crypto, Forensics, Reverse, Web) Tags Coppersmith small-roots, multi-prime RSA, Euler totient tower reduction, YARA constraint solving, NTP/ICMP/HTTP pcap forensics, Go reverse engineering, Python prototype pollution, CSP bypass BYUCTF 2026 is Brigham Young University’s annual capture-the-flag, hosted on the Cyber Jousting infrastructure (chals.cyberjousting.com). The 2026 edition runs fifteen challenges across four classic jeopardy categories — Crypto, Forensics, Reverse, and Web — with a heavy Portal-flavoured forensics arc starring GLaDOS, Wheatley, and the cake-is-a-lie ICMP/NTP/HTTP capture. ...

May 30, 2026 · 17 min · 3582 words · CyberSecurity Elite Team
Hackastra CTF 2026 writeup — all 15 challenges across reverse, web, crypto, misc and forensics

Hackastra CTF 2026 Writeup: All 15 Challenges

Platform Hackastra CTF 2026 Difficulty Mixed (Easy → Hard) OS Jeopardy (Web, Crypto, Reverse, Misc, Forensics) Tags JWT, RS256/HS256 confusion, DSA known-nonce, Coppersmith, Feistel inversion, ARM64/x86_64 RE, WASM RE, AWS Cognito, blind SQLi, XSS, LSB stego Hackastra CTF 2026 ran as a jeopardy-style competition on CTFtime (event #3270) with fifteen challenges spanning reverse engineering, web exploitation, cryptography, forensics, and miscellaneous infrastructure bugs. The event’s name plays on the Sanskrit word अस्त्र (astra, meaning “weapon” or “missile”), and the challenges live up to it — every flag in this set rewards a specific, named technique rather than rote tooling. ...

May 30, 2026 · 19 min · 3856 words · CyberSecurity Elite Team
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