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status: online // last update: 2026.06.03
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pwn 2026.06.03 · 8 min read

picoCTF: heap - Heap Overflow into an Adjacent Struct's Callback

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ad-ctf web pwn crypto reverse 2026.05.09 · 15 min read

CyberChallenge.IT A/D CTF 2026 — Kosovo Team 4: How We Held First Place

Team: Kosovo Team 4 (Team ID 84) Result: First place for the majority of the competition

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crypto misc 2026.05.08 · 4 min read

SHC 2026: ZIPPER - Forging a Linear Hash via Matrix Inversion and gzip FEXTRA

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misc 2026.05.08 · 3 min read

SHC 2026: Stegosaurus - LSB Steganography + C2 Emulation

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re pwn crypto web misc 2026.05.08 · 17 min read

SHC 2026 Qualifier: Cross-Challenge Structural Analysis

A post-competition analysis of the Swiss Hacking Challenge 2026 Qualifier. Across twelve challenges spanning binary exploitation, reverse engineering, cryptography, web security, and miscellaneous categories, I identified recurring design patterns, deliberate deception techniques, architectural security weaknesses,...

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crypto 2026.05.08 · 2 min read

SHC 2026: Punky Hash - Lattice Reduction (LLL/CVP)

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misc 2026.05.08 · 3 min read

SHC 2026: PlumberHub - Rust Integer Overflow for Fun and Flags

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pwn 2026.05.08 · 5 min read

SHC 2026: Jurassic Stack Park - Stack Overflow with Predictable Cookie

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web 2026.05.08 · 2 min read

SHC 2026: Grafasaurus - Grafana + PostgreSQL COPY FROM PROGRAM RCE

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web 2026.05.08 · 3 min read

SHC 2026: DinOData - OData Lambda Filter IDOR via Navigation Properties

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re 2026.05.08 · 2 min read

SHC 2026: DinoConfigurator - .NET RE with a Custom LCG

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crypto 2026.05.08 · 2 min read

SHC 2026: Dino Vault - RSA Common Factor Attack

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pwn re 2026.05.08 · 6 min read

SHC 2026: Canopysaurus - Heap UAF Function Pointer Hijack on an Automotive ECU Simulator

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re 2026.05.08 · 4 min read

SHC 2026: Bedrock Bank - Android APK RE with Native Constraint Solving

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crypto misc 2026.05.08 · 1 min read

Base Onion - Peeling Multi-Layer Encoding

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