Sun, 07 Sept. 2025, 10:00 UTC — Mon, 08 Sept. 2025, 10:00 UTC 
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A Blackhat MEA CTF event.
Format: Jeopardy 
Official URL: https://blackhatmea.com/capture-the-flag
This event's future weight is subject of public voting!
Event organizers
Black Hat MEA in collaboration with Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming & Drones (SAFCSP) will host a CTF Tournament and powered by FlagYard Platform, with over 500 participants (125 teams) entering the final stages at different levels of competency: amateur, intermediate and expert.
CTF competition run as a jeopardy-style competition and team based both in the qualification and final stages.
Participants will be challenged across a range of categories during the competition including Web, Reverse Engineering, PWN, Crypto and Forensics.
Qualification Round:
- Date: 24 hours from 07 Sep 2025, 10:00 GMT (01:00 PM KSA Time)
- Location: Online.
Final Competition:
- Date: 2-4 Dec 2025 during Black Hat MEA conference
- Location: On-Site - Riyadh
Total Prizes for the BlackHat MEA CTF On-Site CTF will be 700,000 SAR (Approx. $187,000)
- 1st Place: 300,000 SAR (Approx. $80,000)
- 2nd Place: 200,000 SAR (Approx. $53,500)
- 3rd Place: 100,000 SAR (Approx. $26,500)
- 4th Place: 60,000 SAR (Approx. $16,000)
- 5th Place: 40,000 SAR (Approx. $10,500)
interesting
very interesting
This got to be the worst CTF ever this year, massive cheating, flag trading and flag selling in Telegram !!!!!!!
Moreover, it seems that the admin have banned teams randomly without proof just to prove that he reacted to the cheating, we opened a ticket to contest your decision but no reply !
unprofessional admins
Please don't bother organising the finals or any other CTF ever !
This year’s CTF was quite disappointing. The integrity of the competition was compromised by incidents of cheating, flag trading, and flag selling, which were openly reported. On top of that, the way bans were handled came across as arbitrary, with little transparency or communication from the organizers. Even after opening a ticket to contest a decision, many teams—including ours—received no reply. For the credibility of future events, better anti-cheating measures, clear evidence-based enforcement, and timely responses are essential.
worst ever ctf. admins went to sleep and discord server became flag trading center. Challenges from 20 solved went to 300+ in one night!! People asking for flags in dm and on telegram. The admins managed to ban more than 200 teams for cheating. One week after the ctf end and still no scoreboard uploaded
