Capture The Flag
5 Days
Global
Free
£8026.62
1 Player
Beginner Friendly
Jeopardy
about the event
Cyber Santa Is Coming To Town!
This year, Santa went digital and hired a bunch of tech elves to update his infra. Unfortunately, some of them were malicious elves who compromised Santa’s data warehouse in the North Pole!
Santa will not give up! He is now putting together a team of expert hackers to save Christmas. In return he is giving back gifts and vacations to everyone, to the naughty and the good. Will you join this ultimate hacking squad?
Play, Learn & Win!
Start Date: December 1st - 13:00 UTC End Date: December 5th - 19:00 UTC Join, hack, save Santa!
December 14th, 3 - 7 PM UTC CTF challenges walkthroughs on YouTube with the best hackers worldwide!
WHY JOIN
There’s no better way to get started with hacking!
Hack amazing content
25 beginner-friendly challenges created by the HTB and other special guests.
Win the best prizes
Solve challenges and get great daily prizes! Special prizes for the overall TOP3.
Learn From Iconic Hackers
The best hackers in the world will solve challenges on Youtube. Ready to learn?
Help Santa & Get Certified
Complete all the challenges and become a certified Cyber Santa hacker!
hacking content
25 Exclusive Themed Challenges!
5 Challenges
5 Challenges
5 Challenges
5 Challenges
5 Challenges
AGENDA
Join The Cyber Santa Hacking Squad
The Avengers? Justice League? No, even better!
Watch the walkthroughs and Q&A on Dec 14th, live on YouTube.
supporters
Meet who is supporting the HTB Cyber Santa CTF 2021
prize pool
Tons Of Prizes... Every day!
We really feel the festive vibes! All players have the chance to win prizes every single day.
Be the first one solving all daily challenges and win:
£50 Swag Card
Platinum HTB Academy Subscription
1 Pro Lab Of Choice
1 Annual VIP+ Subscription
Silver Annual HTB Academy Subscription
The first 1,000 users to solve all daily challenges anytime and win:
50% Monthly VIP Discount
50% Swag Discount
20% Annual VIP+
50% Pro Lab Set Up Fee
100% Pro Lab Set Up Fee
We will pick a lucky exploiter daily! Get at least 1 solve and win:
£25 Swag Card
1 Monthly VIP+ Subscription
3 Months VIP+ Subscription
500 Academy Cubes
1,000 Academy Cubes
First Place
£5,400
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£1,000 Cash
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Exclusive HTB eSport jersey signed by ch4p
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1x Learn One 1-Year Subscription
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1x Hak5 Bash Bunny Mark II
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1x Sony Playstation 5
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1x Sony PULSE 3D Wireless Headset
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1x Annual Snyk Plan
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HTB Winter Swag Box
Second Place
£3,094
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£500 Cash
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1x PWK90
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1x Hak5 Bash Bunny Mark II
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1x Sony Playstation 5
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HTB Winter Swag Box
Third Place
£980
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£250 Cash
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1x Sony Playstation 5
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HTB Winter Swag Box
TOTAL PRIZE VALUE: £8026.62
LET’S MAKE AN IMPACT
Hack for good.
For every challenge that gets at least one solve, Hack The Box will be making a donation to Code.org, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding access to computer science education and increasing participation by young women and students from underrepresented groups. Your goal is to hack as much as possible to help us support Code.org's mission. The team that achieves the most bloods will get a special prize!
HOW TO JOIN
Join The Scoreboard
The CTF is open to everyone! You can join the Cyber Santa squad in 3 simple steps.
Go to ctf.hackthebox.com
Login or create an account
Join “Cyber Santa CTF”
Join our Discord server and check out #cyber-santa to meet your opponents, share hacking tips and connect.
Add your participation on CTFtime. Your ranking will be uploaded after the CTF ends. Don’t miss a single point!
Make us part of your journey and share training tips, comments, and any story using: #HTBCyberSanta21
FOR A FAIR PLAY
Rules of the game.
- New challenges will drop daily at 1 PM UTC.
- In order to win the “Cyber Rudolph” prize, players will need to solve all 5 daily challenges within 24 hours.
- Daily winners will be announced right after they achieve the requirements to win prizes. Grand Winners will be announced at the end of the CTF!
- It is strictly forbidden to perform any kind of Denial of Service or any other unwanted actions against the servers or associated infrastructure.
- Do not try to brute force the flag submission system.
- Do not perform any unwanted actions against other teams/members.
- Do not try to exchange flags/write-ups/hints of the challenges during the competition with other teams participating or to other external entities.
- Do not distribute the content of the CTF (the challenges) to third party entities for help.
- “Cyber Santa” is an individual CTF. Teams with more members will be disqualified.
- Behaviour in Discord and towards other players or HTB Team must comply with our ToS and Discord ToS. Failure to do so will result in the appropriate penalty.
- Please familiarise yourself with the ToS in place regarding our content and intellectual property.
- Any violation of these terms will automatically disqualify the player from the competition.
- Rules are rules, but rule No. 1 is to have fun! Let the scoreboard go on FIRE! 🎉
Cyber Santa CTF 2021
December 1st - 5th, 2021
Online Live
Free
start date
Wednesday, 1 December 2021 13:00 UTC
end date
Sunday, 5 December 2021 19:00 UTC