Hi, friends!
We had the last meeting with org team yesterday about COVID-19 and RuCTF 2020 at April.

Most of our foreign participants are from Italy and Germany, so nobody knows if they can travel to Yekaterinburg in April.
We thought that we can connect them via VPN, but we have no guarantees that any public events in Russia won’t be banned in a month (now it’s banned in Yekt if there are >5000 participants). Also some of our speakers said that their employers advising not visiting conferences and some are just afraid of COVID.

We think that postponing RuCTF 2020 to September or October will be the best desicion. So, RuCTF 2020 will not take place in April.
We’ll provide an official letter to the teams on the next week so they can use it to get back flight costs from the insurance or university.

For those who want to play some A/D CTF at April 12th our friends came up with an interesting idea. Follow the news!

Feel free to ask any questions to @ktwzk, remember to wash your hands and so on. We love you!

It’s time for the news from our friends, @CBSCTF_c team.
We’re ready to announce STAY ~/ CTF — online A/D CTF that is created for you not to sleep the day RuCTF 2020 Finals should have happened.
Follow: @STAY_HOME_CTF
Register: @CBSCTF_bot
Wash your hands!

Let us share this whole new world with you...

At the 26th of December 10:00UTC. New services, new legend, some new devs. But good old RuCTFE Cloud (self-hosting is an option) and 9 hours of cool A/D game!

Winners will be invited to RuCTF 2021 (and we remember about RuCTF 2020 participants, but will have some good news later).

Stay tuned at @RuCTFE

This year we would like to share the whole new world with you. You don't need to save your boat on fights or try to survive the post-apocalypse. Let's just move to the mysterious and beautiful East (also, our regards to HITB guys which showed it to us).

RuCTFE 2020 starts on December 26th at 10:00 UTC and will last for 9 hours. As usual, the network will be closed for the first hour.
Registration will be closed on December 26th at 08:00 UTC.

This year our new partner is Free TON — blockchain platform which uses the open source TON OS as virtual Operating System to run smart contracts and decentralized applications and have the one of the fastest and most scalable networks in existence today.

So, the prize fund is:
1st place — 8192 Free TON Crystals
2nd place — 4096 Free TON Crystals
3rd place — 2048 Free TON Crystals
And that's not all! We have prizes for every active team. For the full list of prizes, check the rules.

Our wallet address is 0:bd9e0f00061e6ffc95c2107ce381d5050b692be2f95b1c83af72300756020d5d. This is posted here for KYP procedure, but you can donate us if you really like our events and have spare Crystals.

Also we would like to say thanks for our long-lasting friendship to SKB Kontur and Yandex.

Prepare your magic carpet and don’t forget to register your team!
https://RuCTFE.org/registration

RuCTFE 2020 is over? Not yet!
Despite the ending of A/D game, we have one more thing for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtNOTZhJ5WU

This year we did not have the opportunity to conduct RuCTF which is not only A/D but also the conference. Coronavirus happened, borders closed, bringing people together turned out to be too unsafe. So we have decided to invite speakers to participate in a conference at the end of 2020 because you don't have to be somewhere physically to get some useful skills and experience. For our online RuCTFE conference, we have filmed speakers' talks and are going to post them one by one at the beginning of 2021.

Of course, we understand the importance of interaction. That's why you get to ask any questions to the speakers in YouTube premiere comments section and the speakers will surely answer you! Also, it's a perfect chance to chat with others like-minded without worrying about life safety.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay tuned and don't miss the premiere!

The first talk of the RuCTFE Conference will be published this Thursday! soxoj will tell you about information leaks and their usage in OSINT. Come and watch him on January the 14th at 19:00YEKT (UTC+5) on our YouTube channel. Feel free to discuss and ask questions!

Meet Demid — our next speaker! Tomorrow he is going to explain you some basics of hardware research.
Enable notifications to not miss the premiere and watch the talk on January the 28th at 20:00YEKT (UTC+5)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM3TOAT7fTQ
Don't forget to leave your questions and comments in the chat!

Let's watch the talk about hardware reverse with soldering iron. In 10 minutes at our YouTube! Remeber to turn on captions and feel free to ask any questions in the chat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM3TOAT7fTQ

Do not miss the talk of our new guest tomorrow!
Asya Gorelina and mobile gaming security, February the 13th at 20:00YEKT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rWyApixd2s

Good news, everyone!

📹 We've finally published all talks from RuCTFE Conf 2020
Here they are, in the playlist. There are nine talks (and a workshop) - from lockpicking and soldering iron reversing to application of AI in information security and defence in mobile games. Each speaker can be asked any question in the comments — almost like on a real conference, just not that synchronized :)
English subnoscripts for a few last videos will be published later in May, we'll remind you about it once more.

😮 RuCTFE 2020 isn't over yet
We had an idea of having competitions not only by using special-wrtitten serveces.
So together with SKB Kontur we're launching a Month of Real Product Vulnerability Survey. Prize fund — 200 000 ₽ and an invitation to RuCTF 2021.
How it works: search for vulnerabilities in products of Kontur and send reports into the special form. Don't forget to identify your team in the vulnerability denoscription. Starting now, we are taking your reports until June 4. Then, we are going to sum things up and divide 200 000 ₽ among three teams and invite one team to RuCTF 2021.
Please, don’t forget to read the full rules: https://kontur-inc.com/bugbounty/ructfe

🏴‍☠️RuCTF 2021 is going to take place on July 18
This year we're making an online-competition for top-25 student teams from RuCTFE 2020 and RuCTFE 2019 (25 teams from each one). We're still in process of sending invitations, however, we already can tell: in 2020 on the 25th place among all the student teams was team SFT0, and in year 2019 it was RedRocket. If you are placed above these teams — you're welcome to RuCTF, and we'll contact you soon. Otherwise, you still have a chance :)
We will post more info on RuCTF on our @RuCTF_en channel, stay tuned!

Hi everyone!
We're here to tell you about searching-vulnerabilities-in-real-products Month.
The first team has already collected 40 points — it was SFT0 team who was already invited to RuCTF. Though they will receive the money prize :) However, you still can beat them — we are taking your reports 'til June 4 at https://kontur-inc.com/bugbounty/ructfe
One more thing — from now on, you can get accounts for free authentication in products, so that you could search for vulnerabilities inside of them. Just mail security@skbkontur.ru, ask them about receiving logins and passwords and don't forget to identify your team in the letter!

It’s been half a month since we together with Kontur started the searching-vulnerabilities-in-real-products Month. We’ll be taking reports for another two weeks. The first and only team on the scoreboard is SFT0 with two reports.
Just reminding you, that the prize fund is 200,000₽ and an invitation to RuCTF 2021. SFT0 is already invited, so even if you send a low priority vulnerability, you could still receive around 50,000₽ and a chance to participate in RuCTF 2021! By the way, you can research products from the inside as well — Kontur will provide accounts for that.
For more details and rules: https://kontur-inc.com/bugbounty/ructfe

ZeroNights Hack Quest starts right now!

Every day, there is going to be a task, and the first person to send a flag and make write-up would receive an invitation to ZeroNights.
The first task was made by us, Hackerdom team. Good luck!

https://hackquest.zeronights.org/

ZeroNights Hack Quest goes on!
Congrats to beched with completion of the first task! And here is the second one from us (the fourth task in summary).
This time it's the task from Arthur awengar from RuCTFE team. Don't miss the opportunity to take your place in the hall of fame and to receive your invitation to ZeroNights: https://hackquest.zeronights.org

Searching-Vulnerabilities-In-Real-Products Month ends today, however, we only have one winner - team SFT0, who will get 100 thousand rubles and the invitation of their second team (if they had one) to RuCTF 2021. Congrats!

Actually, we think it's unfair not to give away all the presents, so guys from @Konturtech suggested making the contest last for a little bit more - for two more weeks!
Send us your reports until July 18. Remember, even if you send a low priority vulnerability, you could still collect your prize: https://kontur-inc.com/bugbounty/ructfe
(try beating SFT0 and getting 100k rubles ;) )