Lmao that's insane

I'm glad that you were able to circumvent it though 😂

Any of you all good at puzzles?

Like with 2000 piece type puzzles?

Or what do you mean?

More like cyber puzzles/ CTF challenges.

Google DerbyCon. The first result is their Twitter account with a single video posted.

In that video, there is a string of binary that convers to -/saRjNntkux

I found that adding that string to their website gives you this: Derbycon.com/saRjNntkux

On this website, the bottom line is in Base64 and gives a URL of a zip file.

The top lines are MD5 encrypted. It decrypts to "FromDarknessLightRises"

The zip file has a YouTube link for

And that's as far as I got. I'm stuck

what a beautiful mystery you have!

Yes indeed. I would like some assistance lol

Happy to help you, if I can 🙂

Wow, damn! I am not good at puzzles like this at all lol

same, but who can refuse a good mystery??

If you like this, I got another one we can work on after we get this one figured out.

I've exhausted my resources on that first puzzle. I think the YouTube video is the end of that one.

So now for the second one. In the podcast Darknet Diaries, there is a code at the end of the first seven episodes.

This link has spoilers, but nice to look at if you want to save some time getting the codes from the episodes. https://www.reddit.com/r/codes/comments/7higqs/hidden_code_in_podcast_darknet_diaries/

I dunno if you are doing a similar puzzle to the one I did, but if so and you are stuck, keep in mind it is possible to complete by just analyzing the people and accounts delivering the clues (ie 100% social engineering is a valid strategy, though its far from optimal). Best advice I can give is to think of it as a path lined with pebbles, some of which are noticeably different from the other pebbles. When you find such a shiny pebble, put it in your pocket -- eventually it will make sense why, when you find another pebble that connects with it.

If you get good at DFIR, I need halp. Got a weird ass process mystery on my machine and like I mentioned, I went the 100% social engineering route cause that's all I knew

Also, note taking helps a lot. Do that. Like, lots of contemporaneous notes. That was definitely a mistake I made, not taking enough notes in the moment

it would be helpful if people could throw a star on this repo https://github.com/ctfg/ctfg that would be super helpful. I am trying to set up sponsorship through OpenCollective and it requires 100 stars to get approved. Any stars would be helpful 🙂

@breadchris I'm trying to get my wife curious about infosec, how might I tell her what CTFg is?

@quiet this is a good competition to play https://www.picoctf.org/

i also just recorded a small walkthrough of the competition i just ran