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FAUST CTF 2026

Starts
Ends
Runs for
9 hours
Format
Attack-Defense (online)
Rating weight
72.29 - Flagship
Teams registered
41

Run by FAUST, with prizes listed on CTFtime.

Event siteRegister on CTFtime

What the organisers say

Classic online attack-defense CTF. Each team will be given a Vulnbox image to host itself and VPN access. You will run exploits against other teams, capture flags and submit them to our server.

Prep briefing

What past editions were made of

Counted across 165 challenges from 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, using the categories the scoreboards themselves used. Two things to hold in mind while reading it. The archive indexes challenges that someone published a solution to, not whole scoreboards, so this is the shape of what people wrote about rather than of everything that was set. And where a scoreboard gave no category the challenge lands in misc, so a large misc slice means “unlabelled” rather than “miscellaneous”.

  • misc 65%(17)
  • web 23%(6)
  • crypto 4%(1)
  • rev 4%(1)
  • pwn 4%(1)

What to have open when it starts

The challenges people wrote about most

From previous editions, ordered by how many published solutions each attracted. Reading two solutions to one of these is the closest thing to a warm-up for this event that exists.

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