The dcua team of the Educational and Research Laboratory of Technical Information Protection of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, having gained 49,000 rating points, took first place in the international Space Heroes CTF competition.
The dcua team, led by Mykola Ilyin, associate professor of the KPI Information Security Department, who is also the head of the laboratory and the team’s coach, consisted of 10 students.
Space Heroes CTF was held by the Florida Institute of Technology in conjunction with Hack Space Con 2024, a cybersecurity conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The competition, which took place on April 12-14, was attended by 614 teams from around the world.
During the annual online cybersecurity competition, participants received tasks of all levels of difficulty, from beginners to experts, in such areas as pwn, re, cryptography, web, and forensics.
It is worth noting a significant gap between KPI students and other teams, more details are available at https://ctftime.org/event/2254/
We congratulate the leader of the dcua team and all its members and wish them new victories:
🔹 Bondarenko Oleksii, FB-03
🔹 Dmytro Kryhin, FB-03
🔹 Shanidze David, PB-03
🔹 Yurii Prykhodko, FB-12
🔹 Podolianko Tymofii, FB-11
🔹 Bigunenko Volodymyr, FB-34
🔹 Tsema Vlad, FB-11
🔹 Perebynos Roman, FB-22
🔹 Duduladenko Volodymyr, FB-z21mp
🔹 Kostetska Alina, FB-83
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