VOLGACTF 2025 FINAL
VolgaCTF 2025 Final will be held from 15 to 19 September 2025 at Lotte Hotel SamaraVIDEO STREAM
CONFERENCE 17.09, TRACK A
CONFERENCE 17.09, TRACK B
CONFERENCE 16.09, TRACK A
CONFERENCE 16.09, TRACK B
SCHEDULE
17.09
11:00
Talks (see tracks A and B below)
14:00
Lunch
15:00
Talks (see tracks A and B below)
Track A
11:00
Evasion: How Malware Evades Detection
Maxim Andreev, Positive Technologies
Maxim Andreev, Positive Technologies
11:45
So, Here’s the Plan!
Dmitry Neverov, Head of Internal Infrastructure Testing, Bastion
Dmitry Neverov, Head of Internal Infrastructure Testing, Bastion
12:30
Blue Team Tales: How Professionals (and Others) Attack
Denis Chernov, Incident Response Engineer, and Dmitry Marichev, Malware Analysis Analyst, Solar Group
Denis Chernov, Incident Response Engineer, and Dmitry Marichev, Malware Analysis Analyst, Solar Group
13:15
Turn Me Off, Turn Me On
Haidar Kabibo, Kaspersky Lab
Haidar Kabibo, Kaspersky Lab
15:00
Shutting Down the Internet Without Shutting Down the Internet
Andrey Chizhov, BI.ZONE
Andrey Chizhov, BI.ZONE
15:30
Modifying and Securing Android Games on Unity
Evgeny Pluzhnik, Positive Technologies
Evgeny Pluzhnik, Positive Technologies
16:15
What's Next? After the Flag
Ivan Sovetkin, MTS Bank
Ivan Sovetkin, MTS Bank
17:00
Attacks on Modern Browsers
Yuri Pazdnikov, Junior Vulnerability Research Specialist, BI.ZONE
Yuri Pazdnikov, Junior Vulnerability Research Specialist, BI.ZONE
Track B
11:00
Fileless Linux Attacks
Kirill Urusov (cu63)
Kirill Urusov (cu63)
11:45
Mom’s Friend’s Son’s CTF
Ivan Kostomakha, Head of Cyber Exercise Expertise and Mentorship Development
Ivan Kostomakha, Head of Cyber Exercise Expertise and Mentorship Development
12:30
Map to Skypiea: Or How to Reach the Cloud with a Pile of Gold
Sergey Arefyev, BI.ZONE
Sergey Arefyev, BI.ZONE
13:15
1C Through the Eyes of a Hacker
Aydar Atnabaev, CICADA8
Aydar Atnabaev, CICADA8
15:00
The Tough Life of an AppSec Engineer: Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Alexander Kravchina, Application Security Expert, Beeline
Alexander Kravchina, Application Security Expert, Beeline
15:45
The Daily Life of a Vulnerability Researcher
Elizar Batin, BI.ZONE
Elizar Batin, BI.ZONE
16:30
Hiding from the All-Seeing Eye of SIEM
Vladimir Rotanov, Jet Infosystems
Vladimir Rotanov, Jet Infosystems
PARTICIPANTS OF THE
COMPETITION
| Foreign teams | ||
|---|---|---|
| Beavers0 | Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Belarus | participation confirmed |
| AreD@Yush? | Mongolian University of Science and Technology, Mongolia | participation confirmed |
| meme or meme | Empasoft Institute of Technology | participation confirmed |
| Kheshig | National University of Mongolia | participation confirmed |
| Russian teams | ||
| Drovosec | Moscow State University | participation confirmed |
| LCD | National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) | participation confirmed |
| dtl | National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) | participation confirmed |
| L0stAx3s | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology | participation confirmed |
| cR4.sh | MIREA – Russian Technological University | participation confirmed |
| ITMOteam | ITMO University | participation confirmed |
| SIGAN | Orenburg State University | participation confirmed |
| DUCKERZ | Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University | participation confirmed |
| CYBERSQD | SSAU, PSUTI | participation confirmed |
| f0x1e | Bryansk State Technical University | participation confirmed |
| RGB+5qu4d | Voronezh State University | participation confirmed |
| N0N@me13 | FSO Academy of Russia | participation confirmed |
| SiBears | Tomsk State University | participation confirmed |
| APT1804 | Bauman Moscow State Technical University | participation confirmed |
| 4Ray | MIREA – Russian Technological University | qualified as the runner-up of PSUTI CTF |
| McQuackerz | National Research University Higher School of Economics | qualified as the runner-up of PSUTI CTF |
| CUT | Central University | qualified as the runner-up of PSUTI CTF |
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