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Last Saturday night the Knicks won the NBA finals for the first time in over 50 years.

Bad vibes I often find myself needing to edit text on an emulated Android system and it’s always a pain.

The Challenge A Tiny one to start, based on the works of TheXCellerator in Tmp.0ut (link) We’re given a tiny x86_64 ELF binary (only 301 bytes!)

Challenge Description Santa wants to make sure he doesn’t leak the location of his secret base through image metadata.

Challenge Description Due to some Grinchey shenanigans, this year the OverTheWire Advent Bonanza CTF will run from Tuesday December 07 until Sunday December 19, however, as is tradition we have a cosy day0 warmup challenge from Retr0id to keep you busy: Be

Challenge Description Santa built a service to allow elves to encrypt secret data without having access to the keys.

Challenge Description Santa has hidden a secret message on the backside of a jigsaw puzzle that he completed.

Challenge Description Santa and Grinch forces have declared a fragily truce.

Challenge Description: Good job!

Challenge Description: With the help of your analysis, we got onto the trail of the group and found their hidden forum on the Deep Dark Web.

Challenge Description: A mysterious file appeared on a deep dark web forum.

Challenge Description: Our investigation revealed that CATAPULT SPIDER uses artificial intelligence to classify images.

Challenge Description: Diving deeper into CATAPULT SPIDER’s malware, we found that it also supports handing off tasks to external modules.

Challenge Description: We were approached by a CATAPULT SPIDER victim that was compromised and had all their cat pictures encrypted.

Challenge Description: After moving laterally, PROTECTIVE PENGUIN compromised a number of additional systems and gained persistence.

Challenge Description: We have received some information that CATAPULT SPIDER has encrypted a client’s cat pictures and successfully extorted them for a ransom of 1337 Dogecoin.

Challenge Description: We just received another report that PROTECTIVE PENGUIN was identified at a company that provides access to mapping software as a service.

Challenge Description: PROTECTIVE PENGUIN gained access to one of their victims through the victim’s extranet authentication portals and we were asked to investigate.