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From Jeopardy-style challenges (web, crypto, reversing, forensics, etc.) to full-pwn machines and AD labs, it’s all here! Join a public CTF or organize one for your team, event, conference, university, or company.
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Why CTF Players Love It
Experience the markets best CTF platform. Advance, challenge, and prove your cybersecurity skillsin real time fast paced challenge solving events.
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- Top-notch hacking content created by HTB
- Content diversity: from web to hardware
- Scalable difficulty: from easy to insane
- Live scoreboard: keep an eye on your opponents
- Scalable difficulty across the CTF
- Real-time notifications: first bloods and flag submissions
- Captivating and interactive user interface
- Easy to register, create a team and join a CTF
4,640
Flags Submitted
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CTFs Hosted
2,860
Teams Competed
World-Class Hacking Content
Covering all challenge categories and difficulty levels with the latest and
must-known attack paths and exploit techniques.
Full Pwn-Style
Boot2Root machines, custom to your needs, with diverse difficulty, attack paths, and OSs. Players will need to find the user and root flag. Get ready for action!
AD-Style
Active Directory labs simulating real-world enterprise environments with the latest attack techniques. Try to capture all the flags and reach Domain Admin.
Jeopardy-Style
All challenge types are included in this category. Pick the ones that best fit your company's CTF requirements. From reversing and web to pwn and hardware.
Web
Hack a web app via a chain of attacks and exploits.
Reversing
Reverse engineering at its finest.
Pwn
Binary exploitation and more...
Forensics
All about data recovery and forensics.
Crypto
Can you crack the encrypted code?
Hardware
Hardware system hacking, oh yeah!
Stego
Uncover disguised messages inside objects.
OSINT
Open Source Intelligence challenges.
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency security challenges.
PPC
Professional programming and coding.
Misc
Challenges that don't fit in other categories.
Custom
Custom content creation upon request.
Events & Communities
Why CTF Hosts Love It
Host a private CTF for your company or build a public event for brand awareness. Our CTF platform supports thousands of players and offers curated packs of content to fit your needs be it offensive vectors, defensive vectors and much more.
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- Industry standard quality content for all skill levels
- Live support: available to help
- Live scoreboard: keep an eye on your players
- Branded events landing page
- Event analytics
- Dynamic scoreboards
- Dedicated instances
- And most importantly, players love it!
Universities
Stiff theory and exhaustive textbooks can
sometimes make an academic cybersecurity
curriculum too theoretical.
Companies
CTF competitions are a great way to increase
awareness and skill setacross an organization,
while also incorporating gamification to its
teams’cybersecurity training.
Our CTF Players & Hosts
They played, they captured the flag, they had fun, they learned! And here is what they
had to say after their Hack The Box CTF experience.
The HTB UNI Qualifiers CTF 2020 was really great. The challenges were very well-engineered and there was a great variety in the type of content distributed across multiple categories in the CTF. The CTF was overall very structured and precisely planned, and I really enjoyed the event in its entirety.
@st4ckh0und
Event:
HTB UNI CTF 2020
Rank:
Omniscient
Playing CTF on Hack The Box is a great experience, the challenges are of high quality as you know them from the platform and they range from beginner to pretty insane. I found the support to be quite fast and timely and we were always in the loop about what was going to happen. The platform worked well, submitting the flags felt satisfactory and challenges started on demand fast and smoothly. Overall 5/5, would (and will) play again.
@0xlimE
Event:
HTB UNI CTF 2019 & 2020
Rank:
Elite Hacker
We did it again! Thanks to the support of HTB and its fantastic team, we were able to run the RomHack CTF 2020 edition. We received exciting comments by the players on the organization of the CTF, the challenges, and the CTF format with a 10 mixed difficulty challenges (on many topics from crypto to hardware hacking). We want to sincerely thank Hack The Box for being so friendly, professional, and open to collaboration.
@yuntao
Event:
RomHack CTF 2020
Rank:
Omniscient
CTF FAQ
CTF (aka Capture The Flag) is a competition where teams or individuals have to solve a number of challenges. The one that solves/collects most flags the fastest wins the competition. Once each challenge has been solved successfully, the user will find a "flag" within the challenge that is proof of completion. If teams are tied, the one that finishes the challenges the fastest will appear higher on the scoreboard.
In order to join a CTF you need to have the access password. To obtain this small but powerful key you need to contact the CTF organizers or the HTB Team!
No, each platform is separate. Having an account on HTB does not mean you automatically have the same account on the CTF platform. You must register on the CTF platform and create a team (or join an existing one) to participate in any of the CTFs. You are free to use the same username and email address on both platforms.
Yes! You can join and be a captain in as many teams as your hacking heart wishes! But before you join any CTF you need to choose (aka activate) in your "Team Management page" with which team you will join a specific CTF.
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