Thugcrowd Matrix Spock Challenge, Mirror: Yet again, we have another classic ThugCrowd chat challenge, this time, featuring a picture of Spock from Star Trek. This challenge was set to expire in 14 days from the publishing date, but unfortunately the steps to …

Thugcrowd Matrix ELF Chat Challenge Link, Mirror: As with most challenges which appear to be base64 encoded, I think it’s always good to try to decode them first to see if there is anything worthwhile (a message which is encoded) or …

Thugcrowd DEFCON Badge Challenge Link, Mirror: This was one of my first introductions to non-standard CTF-y solvable challenges. At first glance, challenge has a few things which seem to be noteworthy: - BEGIN PRIVATE KEY seems indicative of a cryptographic key. BEGIN …

ThugCrowd XOR Chat Challenge, Mirror: seven days until discord xors itself \x1b\x11\x02\x15\x1d\x1aKN\r\x1bU\x12\r\x06\x06\x1bDJ\n\x1c\x0e@\x11\x0cA\x14@\x11\x1bA\x1dZ\x1b\x11\x01\n This chat challenge was interesting …