In cooperation with the Iraqi National CERT, CyberTalents and HackiTiN are organizing Iraq National Cybersecurity CTF 2025. This national CTF comes as part of the Arab and Africa Regional Cybersecurity CTF 2025, one of the largest cybersecurity regional competitions between different countries in the Arab and Sub-Saharan regions.
The competition will run in two phases: Qualification and Final rounds. This is the qualification round for the competition, where participants will compete individually.
The CTF will be a Jeopardy-style CTF where every participant will have a list of challenges in different categories like Reverse Engineering, Web Security, Digital Forensics, Network Security, and others.
For every challenge solved, the participant will get a certain number of points depending on the difficulty of the challenge. The participants who will get the highest scores at the end of the day will raise their chances of joining the final round.
Conditions
Only Iraqi talents are allowed to participate without any adherence to age, gender, or major.
Rules concerning the platform are included.
Sharing the flags between participants is prohibited.
Brute-force attacks on the challenges submission portal or challenges links are not allowed.
Any attack against the site or the hosted servers will be observed, and the player will be banned from participating in the CTF immediately.
Organizers have the permission to disqualify participants for any unethical behavior or any attempt to interrupt the CTF.
Prizes
Top participants will be qualified to join the final round.
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