National team CTF · Captain of ByteMeIfYouCan, handle 0xAr3s
HackerLab is Benin's national cybersecurity competition, run by ASIN. The 2026 scenario, "Operation Tervalis": defend a fictional nation against masked actors by identifying the attackers, tracing attack chains and protecting critical infrastructure.
A team of 4 organised as a cell: one role per challenge family (pwn and reverse, AI and attribution, web and OSINT, forensics and crypto), a shared repository with a per-challenge template (notes, files, validation), a tool installation script and a MITRE ATT&CK guide for attribution. Before the competition: training on Root-Me.
Final ranking: ByteMeIfYouCan 11th with 13,319 points, the maximum score also reached by the top ten teams, separated by time. On my own: 93 flags, 10,479 points, 5th in the individual ranking and 4 first bloods (first in the whole competition to solve Bohemian Rhapsody, The Ashen Seal, Loose Cage and Phone Home), 8th on the BloodBoard. On 29 August, my points made up 83% of the team score.
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