The International Cybersecurity Challenge is a cybersecurity competition created and organised by a global consortium including Europe (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)), Asia (Code Blue, Div0, BoB, Bitscore), USA (Katzcy), Canada (Cyber*Sci), Oceania (The University of Queensland), Africa (Namibia University of Science and Technology), and Latin America (ICC Latino America) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] for people up to the age of 25. The challenges include web and system exploitations, cryptography, reverse engineering, hardware, and attack/defense.[6] It has been held since 2022.[7]
The 2022 event was held in Athens, Greece between 14 and 17 June. There were 7 teams which represented 64 countries,[8] and was won by Team Europe.[9]
Results
| Pos | Team | Final Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=col style="background-color: gold" | 1 | scope=col style="background-color: gold" | Team Europe | scope=col style="background-color: gold" | 12961 |
| scope=col style="background-color: silver" | 2 | scope=col style="background-color: silver" | Team Asia | scope=col style="background-color: silver" | 10724 |
| scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966" | 3 | scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966" | Team USA | scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966" | 7765 |
| 4 | Team Oceania | 7447 | |||
| 5 | Team Canada | 3643 | |||
| 6 | Team Latin America | 1722 | |||
| 7 | Team Africa | 981 |
The 2023 challenge was held in San Diego, California between 1 and 4 August. It was part of the International Cybersecurity Championship & Conference (IC3). The competition had 7 teams representing a region: Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Oceania, and the United States. 65 countries in total were represented.[10] Team Europe won again, Team Oceania came second Team Asia third.
Results
| Pos | Team | Final Score | Day 1 - Jeopardy CTF | Day 2 - A/D CTF & KOTH | KOTH | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=col style="background-color: gold" | 1 | scope=col style="background-color: gold" | Team Europe | scope=col style="background-color: gold" | 15189,14 | scope=col style="background-color: gold" | 7670 | scope=col style="background-color: silver" | 51340,89 | scope=col style="background-color: silver" | 718 |
| scope=col style="background-color: silver" | 2 | scope=col style="background-color: silver" | Team Oceania | scope=col style="background-color: silver" | 13608,86 | scope=col style="background-color: silver" | 6497 | scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966" | 48559,98 | 705 | |
| scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966" | 3 | scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966" | Team Asia | scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966" | 13032,00 | 5362 | scope=col style="background-color: gold" | 52370,95 | 372 | ||
| 4 | Team USA | 11438,10 | scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966" | 5431 | 41016,64 | scope=col style="background-color: #cc9966" | 709 | ||||
| 5 | Team Canada | 9229,19 | 4024 | 35541,16 | scope=col style="background-color: gold" | 904 | |||||
| 6 | Team Latin America | 4687,84 | 1906 | 18994,50 | 275 | ||||||
| 7 | Team Africa | 4012,86 | 2222 | 12228,01 | 237 |
In 2024 the event will be held from 28 October to 1 November in Santiago, Chile. The competition will feature Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Oceania, United States and potentially Middle East.