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Lovely Malware - HTB Sherlocks

In this post I want to share how I solved my first Insane Sherlock challenge. Lately, I’ve been diving deeper into malware reversing, and especially during CTFs I usually rely...

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Breached - C2C 2026 Qualification

This challenge is a very interesting and fun forensic scenario. We are placed in the role of the blue team, tasked with investigating a compromised virtual machine and reconstructing the...

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Unorthodox Part 1 – Cyber Jawara Qual 2025

On December 27th, I participated in the Cyber Jawara 2025 Qualifiers with my team, manablokchennya-Xx and we qualified to the final stage, where one of the forensic challenges I manage...

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Operation Pensieve Breach - heroCTF v7

About a month ago, I participated in heroCTF v7 with my team, CSUI, where we finished 9th overall and successfully solved all forensic challenges. I personally worked on most of...

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