Hack The Boo CTF Competition is a 5-day Catch-the-flag event organized by Hack The Box, a renowned global cybersecurity training platform which allows individuals, companies, universities and all kinds of organizations around the world to level up their hacking skills. This year, they organized a Halloween-themed CTF in the Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October 2022, which challenged contestants for a variety of categories of cybersecurity problems including Web Exploitation, Reverse Engineering, Forensics, and Compromise (also known as Pwn). Mr Hopkins Kong, coach of the PolyU CTF Team and MPhil student in the EIE Department, has led the team “NuttyShell” to win the championship among a total of 6367 players worldwide.
