Conquering
The Deccan CTF 2025
Our Department of Cyber Security & IoT proudly participated in The Deccan CTF 2025, hosted by 0x1337 - Hacking Club, IIIT Hyderabad. From Feb 8th, 1 PM to Feb 9th, 8:45 AM, we engaged in an intense overnight CTF, testing our offensive security skills, tackling challenging exploits, and pushing our limits!
Event Photo Gallery
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Guest Speaker Sessions
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Threat Hunting: Approach and Best Practices
Uday Gonti
Staff Threat Hunter, SentinelOne
XXE: When Your Parser Becomes a Hacker's Playground
Jashwanth Konduru
Staff Security Engineer, ServiceNow
Hunting Adversaries: Analyzing Persistent Threat Operations
Sathwik Ram Prakki
Senior Security Researcher, Quick Heal
Team Achievements
Open Category Final Ranks
Team Crucial
Top 15- Maram Shanmukh
- Pavan Reddy
- Dinesh Goud
- G V S Harshith
- Manvith Goud
- Rakesh Thadem
Team Genisis
Top 20- Sonu Lanka
- Lokeshwar
- Jaideep K
- Jishnu Sai Prasad
- Bhanu Prasad Rao Kolamaddi
Team Nexus Crew
Top 40- Matta Teja Hari Sai Ram
- Jathin
- Swaroop
- Mahesh Balaji
Team United Minds
Top 40- Gorantla Jagadeep
- Udutha Shashidhar
- Sharanya
- Mothe Shriya
- Lava Kumar
Team Cipher Storms
Top 45- Samineni Janaki Sai Komali
- Sidda
- Tatikonda Pavani
- Lakshmi Sathwika Vennam
- Hemanth Reddy Sama
Team 405 Found
Top 50- Sreeja Parne
- Laharika Garimilla
- Thrisha Sagala
- Greeshma Gopireddy
- Girish Routu
CTF Format & Experience
The Deccan CTF 2025 followed the CTFd Jeopardy-style CTF pattern, presenting a wide range of exploits, web vulnerabilities, reverse engineering challenges, and adversarial security tasks for participants to solve under strict time constraints.
A huge thanks to 0x1337 - The Hacking Club, IIIT Hyderabad for hosting such a thrilling competition and to our HOD, Dr. G. Anand Kumar Sir, for his constant support and encouragement!
More challenges ahead, and this is just the beginning! 💪💻