🚩Disarm Me CTF: Hack, Decrypt, Disable
Event Overview
This red team–style CTF puts your team in the role of attackers breaking into an emulated internal network. You’ll play as contracted gray-hat operatives (SAVE) infiltrating The League — a shadowy collective behind ransomware and extortion campaigns — to recover intelligence and disrupt their plans. Why it matters: this immersive, hands-on scenario trains teams in offensive techniques and attacker thinking so they can better anticipate and mitigate threats in their own environments. All activity runs in a safe, non-production setting and yields actionable insights. What you’ll practice: 🔍 Attacker tradecraft — reconnaissance, exploitation, persistence. 🧠 Adversary tool fluency — exposure to real-world tools and methods. 🤝 Critical thinking & communication — operate as a focused squad under timed pressure. 🗂️ Side quests & extra intelligence — optional objectives that surface richer findings for your organization.
What to expect
- Frameworks – Metasploit
- Post-exploitation – Meterpreter
- SQL vulnerability detection/exploitation – SQLmap
- Web Reconnaissance/Exploitation – Burp Suite
- Directory/File enumeration – Dirbuster, Wfuzz
- DNS enumeration – Fierce, DNSrecon
- Password Cracking – John-the-Ripper, Hashcat
- Network Reconnaissance – NMAP
- Steganography – Steghide
- Reverse-Engineering – Ghidra, GDB, Strings
Goals and Objectives
Points are awarded for completing challenges, covertly breaking into The League’s network, and collaborating with your team to obtain the final passphrase. Expect a mix of core objectives and optional targets that add extra scoring and intelligence for your organization. 🚨 Practice realistic incident scenarios without risk to production systems 🤝 Improve team coordination — align roles and communication under timed pressure 📊 Surface skill & process gaps to inform future training and investments 📋 Generate actionable insights that support tabletop exercises, IR playbooks, and stakeholder reporting
Who should attend?
This CTF is designed for technical teams who want hands-on offensive experience and for leaders who need clear takeaways about attacker behavior and organizational readiness. 🕵️ Red teamers & penetration testers — sharpen exploitation technique and tool usage 🛡️ Incident responders & SOC analysts — learn attacker steps to improve detection and containment strategies ⚙️ Security architects & engineers — see how design choices may be exploited and identify defensive hardening opportunities 📈 CISOs & security managers — observe attacker behavior firsthand and gather evidence to inform risk decisions and investment cases 🔬 Researchers & ethical hackers — test theory in a high-fidelity, scenario-based environment
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