News
Thanks for all the teams participating in Balsn CTF 2021. We hope you enjoyed our challenges. If you like our CTF, please help vote weight in CTFTime or provide feedbacks. We really appreciate your support and feedback!
Congratulations to the following teams:
- Global top 3:
- 1st place: Water Paddler
- 2nd place: 10sec
- 3rd place: Goburin’
- Balsn CTF 2021 Taiwan Stars (domestic top 3):
- 1st place: 10sec
- 2nd place: Goburin’
- 3rd place: BambooFox
About
Balsn is CTF team from Taiwan founded in 2016. Most of our current members are affiliated with Network Security Lab in National Taiwan University. We actively participate in online and onsite CTF competitions. You can browse our recently participated events and rankings on CTFtime. We also publish writeups on CTF challenges.
We are a group of cybersecurity enthusiasts interested in various areas including software security, binary analysis, web security, cryptography, IoT security, and etc. Besides our own research, all of us enjoy playing CTF because we believe it is an excellent chance to hone our skills in practice, catch up with the latest trend, and most importantly – compete and have fun!
In 2020 summer, Balsn attended DEFCON 28 CTF World Final online as a joint team HITCON⚔Balsn, collaborating with HITCON. We ranked in third place in this great competition.
Team Members
Active Members
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Ginoah Current leader of Balsn. (๑•ᴗ•)⊃━*✩⁺˚🕸 |
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yuawn Pwning my life. (๑•̀ㅂ•́)ﻭ✧ Github: yuawn Twitter: _yuawn |
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how2hack Give me flag (・ω・) |
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sasdf Yet another Shaman King of Balsn. He focuses on all kinds of challenges. |
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bookgin I enjoy playing web challenges! - Blog: https://bookgin.tw - Twitter: @bookgin_tw |
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kevin47 (｡>_ŏ)▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 |
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sces60107 sces60107 (a.k.a Shaman King) knows nothing about reverse engineering and binary exploit, but he knows how to get the flag. This guy specializes in mind-reading and guessing the flag. |
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qazwsxedcrfvtg14 Warning: He is a dangerous guy. Everything he touched will malfunction in a jiffy. |
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shw Blog: https://x9453.github.io/ |
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fweasd I love CTFs, but they don’t like me… mainly studied in pwn and crypto |
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RB363 Nothing to do with RB Tree Blog: https://blog.rb363.tw/ |
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hortune struggling with solidity QQ |
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Kaibro ∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿ Website: kaibro.tw Blog: blog.kaibro.tw |
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maojui ヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ |
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Billy Nothing … Something … Anything … Everything |
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NiNi blog: blog.terrynini.tw |
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tens PWN! |
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Frank Lin I’m a huge fan of sasdf! github: Frank Lin |
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nkhg ლ(◕ω◕ლ) |
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utaha Play crypto but am learning pwn OwO |
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ETT ε≡ﾍ( ´∀`)ﾉ Crypto |
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paulhuang A newbie who knows a little RE (a.k.a. Reverse Elephant). |
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fcchen I love misc! |
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YingMuo pwn newbie who is finding crystal ball. |
Honorary Members
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Isaac > “This might be a game, but it isn’t something you play.” Blog: https://poning.me |
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ysc Transfer from pwn to web. Often got a production boost at the last hour of a game. Blog: https://ysc21.github.io |
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lwc Solve the challenges ranging from pwn to crypto, from crypto to bruteforce, from butefore to guessing, from guessing to ESP… |
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lsc is my waifu. |
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bbiiggppiigg ( The challenge I can solve ) ≡ ( The challenge which is too easy ) |
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Xinra > “Every challenge is brute-forceable if you believe in yourself.” For me, 500 500 CAPTCHAs are just an hour of human work. |
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ymk Welcome to the world of CTF. |
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laurice A girl studies in computer science and interested in classical music. She has absolute pitch and used the ability to decode music in D-CTF final. She is now focusing on the area of machine learning. |
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lingling Blog: 0x00.tw Twitter: @0x000050 |
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YY A student who interested in binary analysis and like to PWN everything. |
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pone pone! |
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Xun BalsnCTF System Guardian. (OwO)^ Lead System Architect of BalsnCTF (2019, 2020) |
Selected Awards
| DEFCON 28 CTF Finals, 3rd place (HITCON⚔Balsn) | Online, Aug. 2020 |
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| DEFCON 27 CTF Finals, 2nd place (HITCON⚔BFKinesiS) | Las Vegas, USA, Aug. 2019 |
| DEFCON 26 CTF Finals, 12th place (BFS) | Las Vegas, USA, Aug. 2018 |
| HITCON CTF 2021, 2nd place | Online, Dec. 2021 |
| Dragon CTF 2021, 1st place | Online, Nov. 2021 |
| 0CTF/TCTF 2021 Finals, 3rd place | Online, Sep. 2021 |
| PlaidCTF 2021, 4th place | Online, Apr. 2021 |
| WCTF 2020, 1st place | Online, Nov. 2020 |
| 0CTF/TCTF 2020 Finals, 2nd place | Online, Sep. 2020 |
| Codegate CTF 2020 Finals, 3rd place | Online, Sep. 2020 |
| 0CTF/TCTF 2019 Finals, 2nd place | Shanghai, China, Jun. 2019 |
| HITCON CTF 2018, 3rd place (BFKinesiS) | Online, Oct. 2018 |
| Trend Micro CTF 2019 Finals, 3rd place | Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 2019 |
| Pwn2Win CTF 2019, 2nd place | Online, Nov. 2019 |
| TokyoWesterns CTF 5th 2019, 1st place | Online, Sep. 2019 |
| Facebook CTF 2019, 2nd place | Online, Jun. 2019 |
| PlaidCTF 2019, 4th place | Online, Apr. 2019 |
| Teaser Dragon CTF 2019, 3rd place | Online, Sep. 2019 |
| N1CTF 2019, 2nd place | Online, Sep. 2019 |
| RCTF 2019, 3rd place | Online, May. 2019 |
| *CTF 2019, 3rd place | Online, Apr. 2019 |
| Teaser CONFidence CTF 2019, 2nd place | Online, Mar. 2019 |
| Codegate CTF 2019 Final, 6th place | Seoul, Korea, Mar. 2019 |
| HITB-XCTF GSEC CTF 2018 Finals, 5th place | Singapore City, Singapore, Sep. 2018 |
| Pwn2Win CTF 2018, 1st place | Online, Nov. 2018 |
| Hackover CTF 2018, 2nd place | Online, Oct. 2018 |
| ASIS CTF Finals 2018, 5th place | Online, Nov. 2018 |
| DefCamp CTF Finals | Bucharest, Romania, Nov. 2018 |
| DefCamp CTF Finals | Bucharest, Romania, Nov. 2017 |
| Trend Micro CTF 2018 Finals | Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2018 |
| SECCON 2018 Finals | Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 2018 |
| SECCON 2017 Finals (1$@AIS3, Balsn) | Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 2018 |
Contact
Please contact us at balsn2015 [at] gmail [dot] com. You can write the mail in Chinese, English or Taiwanese.
If you have any question regarding our writeups, please feel free to create an issue in the writeup repository.