FlyForge CTF 2026: the team from Khmelnytskyi National University wins

The tasks

This time, teams worked on cybersecurity tasks for autonomous systems and interacted with a real physical device.

All tasks were linked into a single kill chain: each step opened the way to the next, and every previous step affected all the following ones. Instead of building many separate, unrelated tasks, we recreated a complete infrastructure. Participants started the attack with a memory dump of the system and finished by interacting with the physical device.

After the competition, one participant said they had never seen a CTF format like this before.

The winners

Congratulations to team 518&imposter from Khmelnytskyi National University on their win:

• Denys Stadnik (captain)
• Mykola Kostiuk
• Volodymyr Anikin
• Rastislav Tovt
• Volodymyr Oliinyk

Thank you to all the teams for a strong game and for being ready to take on new challenges!

Qualifier for the Ukrainian Championship

FlyForge CTF became an official industry qualifier for the Ukrainian Championship in Technological Sports, thanks to our cooperation with the Federation of Technological Sports of Ukraine.

Partners

We thank the partners we created FlyForge CTF with:

• IronCyber – our technology partner, who developed the competition scenario and tasks.
• Alerts Bar – competition partner; the company’s CEO Dima Ashkinazi opened FlyForge CTF.
• Federation of Technological Sports of Ukraine – thanks to the Federation, the CTF became an official qualifier for the championship; the Federation also provided information support.
• De Novo – provided the infrastructure for the competition.

What's next

Want to compete next time or join FlyForge CTF as a partner? Follow SET University for announcements or write to us at hello@setuniversity.edu.ua.