From 5th place last year to coming back stronger this year 🔥🔥
Really happy to share that our team received the Champion (金灣獎) 🥇 at the 2nd Greater Bay Area Cybersecurity Competition — Hong Kong and Macao Division!
We also placed in the top 30% overall in the final round and received the Bay Area Talent Certificate 😎
What made this competition especially memorable was its offline format — no network access, no searching for write-ups, and no browser-based agent workflows. Just our preparation, local tools, teammates, and a lot of trial and error 💻🚩
Agentic CTF is moving fast, and it is exciting to see what agents can help with. But this experience was a nice reminder that traditional CTF fundamentals still matter: understanding the challenge, testing ideas, writing quick scripts, and solving problems together when things do not go as planned.
A special thank you to HKCERT for sponsoring our entire trip and making this experience possible 🙌 We truly appreciate the support!
Big thanks as well to my teammates (ZheMa & Kit Hoi Jiang) and everyone who supported us. Proud to be part of Firebird (HKUST Firebird CTF Team) 🐦🔥 and on behalf of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 😚