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!

https://ctftime.org/event/1178

If you want to become our partner or sponsor, please contact @ktwzk or info@ructf.org

This year we would like to share a 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 (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, Yandex and Kaspersky Academy.

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

Check your mail! We’ve sent one-time secret codes to get your configs and credentials.

If you can’t log in, please use https://ructfe.org/restore_config to get new secret code. If you can’t find letter on your email, please check Spam folder (also check Promotions on GMail) and if it doesn’t help, contact us via info@ructf.org or DM @ktwzk.

Newly registered teams will get secret code right after email confirmation. Registration will be closed on December 26th at 08:00 UTC.
Hurry up! https://ructfe.org/registration

Vulnerable image is available!

Yandex Disk: https://yadi.sk/d/f_jxcxJ_CO_WvA
Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yL48oaLv1qpa4N6XgZwMlJK2E55obU36/view?usp=sharing
Mega: https://mega.nz/file/PQlXlaBb#S8qmxcah-OJQF1Qmtgt-8vnzvJuzBNs-WxBQlxO8oJQ
FTP: https://ftp.hackerdom.ru/ctf-images/2020-12-26-RuCTFE/

sha256sums:
099a14d22cacd2c196aa223c6c275ffcf82285895e613f5483a9ef3587cb5f14 ructfe2020.ova.7z
c7b97f3ceb915a5f22f8f364c6788bb0e647136df4cdb5232b8df3aeee7abdf2 ructfe2020.ova

Decryption key will be available at 10:00UTC.
Also if your team is based in Yekaterinburg, contact us to get USB flash drive with image by Yandex.Go Delivery (just kidding, but feel free to ask any questions from any city).

Short FAQ

Q: If my team plays self-hosted, what's system requirements?
A: 2 CPUs (4+ CPU the best), 6GB RAM, 40GB HDD will be okay. Remember to install VirtualBox 6.0.24!

Q: Remind me, how long game round and flag lifetime is?
A: One round takes nearly 1 minute, flag is actual for 15 rounds.

Q: So, what's the timeline?
A: Get image password or access to Cloud at 10:00UTC, prepare for network opening at 11:00UTC, attack and defence for 8 hours. Celebrate winning at 19:00UTC!

+ Telegram as a file hosting: https://news.1rj.ru/str/joinchat/UpG6bfXl2c0OZa6N

Just in case: registration is closed, mail confirmation will be closed in 20mins

Decryption key is aN06vKefJFul2KUCv9bf9cx2AXM63umk

RuCTFE Cloud Console now available at https://cloud.ructfe.org
The network will be opened at 11:00 UTC

For those who have problems with vpn on cloud: while you fixing it, you can connect to your vuln box using ssh root@teamXX.cloud.ructfe.org

The VPN config was tested on Linux and Windows OS. If you have mac, this can help: https://tunnelblick.net/cTunTapConnections.html

Hey, oldfags, it’s for you: http://monitor.ructfe.org/board
Farmers, it’s for you: http://monitor.ructfe.org/api/info

And the one scoreboard to rule them all: https://monitor.ructfe.org/

Network is open!
Good luck! Also check out Free flags on your 80 port.

Gratz to saarsec for keeper firstblood!

And mudarabah was hacked by Bushwhackers!

Your service is working, but board is red? Try connect_vm_to_game_network, it’s useful!

FB on scrolls by SharLike 🎉

If you’ve encountered 500 Internal Server Error in notary, just after the first start, please restart docker-compose. There is a bug in database initialisation. Sorry for that.