Tag: defcon

CovidScammers writeup (Defcon RTV CTF)

I joined the Defcon Red Team Village CTF because I was curious about it and I wanted to test out the skills that I have gained playing with CTF sites like overthewire.org and vulnhub. I knew that the challenges won't be easy, but thankfully, I was able to join up with other newbies who were willing to give it a go and learn with each other.

Unfortunately, I fell asleep just before the CTF started and when I woke up all the easy challenges were already solved by my team members. There was one easy challenge that was still open on the CovidScammers category, so I quickly got started to solving that.

Free Flag (and binary) [1 point]

You've been contacted by a high-end but morally ambiguous finance company (unhackable-bitcoin-wallet.com) to investigate a data breach. The box in question is a mail server in their internal network, a …