Iโm pleased to share that our team Platinum has won first place in the Saudi Teams category at Black Hat MEA CTF 2025 for the third consecutive year.
Weโre especially proud to have secured first blood ๐ฉธ on a hard web challenge.
He is right, just in the case of playing bad quality ctfs (strings to find the flag, use rockyou and pray,etc) u will not gain much knowledge. But when u play high quality ctfs u will gain insane knowledge. ( i can defend my point 24/7). Ctfs allows u to interact with great minds
This is what it feels like when something larger than you quietly takes your place. Not all at once, not with noise, but with a steady certainty that leaves no room to argue back. One day you are needed, the next day you are optional, and then eventually you are nothing at all in
One of our engineers just did a detailed writeup for one of his Google kCTF kernel exploits. The bug is 20 years old and has been there since Linux 2.6.12!
open.substack.com/pub/calif/p/a-โฆ
CVE-2026-4887 A flaw was found in GIMP. This issue is a heap buffer over-read in GIMP PCX file loader due to an off-by-one error. A remote attacker could exploit this by convincing aโฆ cve.org/CVERecord?id=Cโฆ
i wrote a blog about the art of xs-leak attacks, i did a deep dive into chromium source code for an xs-leak oracle, have fun ๐
x6vrn.github.io/xsleaks-part1.โฆ