July 6th, 2020: It all started with this mail. I received a scholarship for CEH Practical (applied two times xD) and I had to pay $99 to take the exam. I guess it was worth it. Battling with college and other stuff, I used to think I am not ready yet and kept on postponing it until 6th of November, 2020. I finally took the exam and passed it easily, and now that I look back, I could have done it then as well, but yeah....

The CTF is live on Hacker101 as Grayhatcon CTF – Hacker101 CTF The CTF was built upon real vulnerabilities found during bug bounties. It had four flags – 250 points each. Objective - Hackerone’s Username and Password database has been leaked and put on an auction. Our task was to delete the auction listing before anyone buys it. We were given an IP, which resolved to a web application....

This is related to a talk given by me and pre & post-event activities, that were conducted at Developer Circles, Pune and Bengaluru. It all started with DEFCON 2020 Red Team Village CTF, my team and I reached the Top 50 and it was just amazing for all of us. It was an enriching experience, solving challenges from a wide range of categories and learning new stuff in the process. One section of the CTF dealt with Malware Analysis and I was fascinated by this domain of security and have been learning about it....