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End of Ctrl+Space 2025 day 2! In today's competition, teams exploited our in-orbit challenges - plus a lot of conventional hacking. Scoreboard freeze shows a tight race for first place finals.ctrl-space.gg Bonus: see how teams are playing the 3-day-long King of The Hill 🔥

🚀 Mission Control here. The qualifying round of Ctrl+Space 2025 has come to an end! GG to all participants: * 599 crews showed up, with nearly 659 solves. * The top 5 eligible teams will soon be back in orbit🛰️ Finals at ESTEC 🇳🇱, Nov 4–6. We´ll see you at launch!

> You mistakenly pressed the button to eject the instruction manual & this ship is infamous across the stars for a labyrinth of controls no sane mind can master. > Returning home will demand more than luck. Come rev this and more at scoreboard.ctrl-space.gg ! GAME IS LIVE 🚩🍝

🚀 Ctrl+Space Quals have already kicked off on Voyager 1 🛰️! Due to light-speed delay, for us on Earth, the round officially starts in ~24h only Sept 20, 09:00 UTC. Don’t miss it… You might just reach the stars ✨ ctrl-space.gg

The orbital pasta is almost ready 🍝🛰️ Registration for Ctrl+Space CTF Quals is open 👉 ctrl-space.gg ⚡ 24h of space hacking kicks off THIS SATURDAY 20th, 9:00 UTC 🌌 Secure your spot at the @esa 3S Conference finals in November & bring your exploit to orbit! 🚀

We're excited to be creating the challenges and organizing this unique CTF 🚩 come join us to hack our intergalactic recipes! 🍝🚀

🌐𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 • Jeopardy-style • Space-themed CTF • 📅September 20, 09:00 UTC (24 hours) 🚀𝗢𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 • ESA’s Security for Space Systems (3S) Conference ESTEC, Netherlands 🇳🇱 • 📅 November 4–6 • Jeopardy + KOTH + In-Orbit

Still hacking with your feet on the ground? Not anymore, we cooked 🍝 Join Ctrl+Space CTF Quals (20–21 Sep) to be one of the 5 finalist teams to play in-orbit challenges running on @D_Orbit ION Satellite Carrier 🛰️ at @esa 3S conference 🇳🇱 (4–6 Nov)! ctrl-space.gg

Overall, our seventh final, and another good result. We come back happy after meeting and competing with so many old and new friends. Wishing good luck to the next organizers - see you all soon ♥️🍝

And to @PoliTOnews @polimi @necstlaboratory @ConsorzioCINI for their logistical support over the years

@defcon CTF wrap up time 🚩🐚 We scored a great 6th place at this year's August finals in a great fight over three days on an excellent set of challenges. Thanks to @Nautilus_CTF for their years as organizers of the CTF and for giving us (yet) another good game

End of day 1: the mhackeroni kitchen is in full swing @defcon CTF - let's cook 🔥 Thanks for the support to 🥇 #7Layers - #DRIVESEC 🥈 @_revng - @KeylessTech - @WuerthPhoenix - @CNIT_TLC 🙌 #STACKBITS

🚨 Sponsoring us?! The mhackeroni kitchen will open its usual pop-up restaurant in Vegas at @defcon this August 🍝 There's still time to help us make it - write us if you'd like to discuss! Let's get your logo out there on this summer's hottest piece of apparel 👕🚩

ncuts, nfuncs, nquals, nhackers @mhackeroni

Yet another year, yet another qualification!!! @mhackeroni See you at Las Vegas probably!! :D

You can also find us on the thing named after the stuff above your head 👀

That's it! Congrats to MMM 🥇 & thanks to all teams for a great fight, @0rganizers and @shellphish for the apéro 🍻, Blue Water for an amazing (and eventful) afterparty, @EmuExploit for continuing the pineapple pizza tradition (🍍🚫🍕 tho) - a presto! ♥️

A huge thank you to @necstlaboratory and @polimi, @PoliTOnews, @ConsorzioCINI for their essential support, and to everyone who helped fly us to the desert again 🎰🇺🇸

Now that we're all back and caught up on sleep it's @defcon CTF @Nautilus_CTF wrap-up time! 🐚🚩 we managed a great 6th place in a tough competition with conventional pwnage, GenAI-powered spaceships, and LiveCTF duels