Hack The Box: Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2025
Tales from Eldoria — Competed in one of the world's largest and most prestigious cybersecurity competitions. Team Assassin's Code ranked 1,294th out of 8,130 teams (Top 16%) with 13,675 points and 19 challenges solved.
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Competed in one of the world's largest and most prestigious cybersecurity competitions, Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2025, hosted by Hack The Box from March 21-26, 2025. This 5-day intensive cybersecurity challenge event featured a narrative-driven CTF experience themed "Tales from Eldoria" with teams tackling progressively harder challenges across multiple security domains under time pressure.
Team Performance & Statistics
• Team Ranking: 1,294th out of 8,130 teams (Top 16%)
• Team Name: Assassin's Code
• Total Points Earned: 13,675 points
• Challenges Solved: 19 out of 77 available challenges
• Success Rate: 24.7% completion across all domains
• Competition Format: 5-day intensive cybersecurity challenge event
Technical Competencies Demonstrated
Successfully solved challenges across multiple security domains including web exploitation, cryptography, reverse engineering, forensics, and binary exploitation. Applied practical offensive security techniques to complex scenarios under time pressure, demonstrating proficiency in vulnerability identification, exploit development, and digital forensics methodologies.
Skills & Tools Utilized
• Web Application Security: Burp Suite, OWASP methodology
• Cryptography: Classical and modern crypto analysis
• Reverse Engineering: Static/dynamic analysis, deobfuscation
• Digital Forensics: Memory, network, and disk artifact analysis
• Binary Exploitation: Memory corruption, shellcode development
• Scripting: Python, Bash automation for exploit development
Competition Impact & Recognition
Earned Hack The Box Certified CTF Player status, demonstrating proven capabilities in competitive cybersecurity challenges. This achievement reflects elite performance in a global competition with over 8,000 participating teams, showcasing advanced offensive security techniques and problem-solving abilities under pressure.
Professional Development
The competition experience strengthened operational security skills, improved threat modeling intuition, and reinforced disciplined exploit methodology that translates directly to professional red-teaming and secure engineering practices. Learn more at hackthebox.comand explore additional security projects on the Cybersecurity page.