UrFU Students Won the CTF Russian Cup 2018

16:38, December 5, 2018

For the second year in a row, students of UrFU became the winners of the CTF Cup of Russia

The team VoidHack, consisiting of students of the Department of Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Science Andrei Chuprilin, Alexander Belev, Alexey Dubrovin, Kirill Churkin, Stanislav Fedyanin, Maria Devyatykh and Alexey Zakharov, won the II CTF Cup of Russia. In the finals of the competition, they bypassed rivals from Moscow, becoming winners, and received the second cup as winners of the task-based stage.

‘Good job. We congratulate our students. The Cup is ours once more,’ says Magaz Asanov, director of the department of mathematics, mechanics and computer science of Ural Federal University.

Hackerdom team also participated in the competition: students and graduates of Ural Federal University Arthur Liss, Alexander Ankudinov, Mikhail Evdokimov, Mikhail Gnedashev, Vladimir Cherepanov, Alexander Kotov and Vikenty Kotvitsky received the prize in the nomination “The most technical hacking”.

The winner of previous competitions was the team Hackerdom. Thus, the students of Ural Federal University win the CTF Russian Cup for the second year in a row. The CTF movement in Russia began 11 years ago with the Hackerd team support (they organized the UralCTF competition).

The II CTF Russian Cup is one of the country's largest information security tournaments. Competitions were held on November 30 - December 1 in the Skolkovo Innovation Center. 21 teams-winners of regional competitions and CTF development teams took part in the finals.

The organizers also held an international conference Skolkovo Cyberday - 2018. The main topics of the conference were the transformation of threats and the evolution of protection methods, the Bug Bounty, ML / AI - new cybersecurity opportunities, new proactive security approaches.