ByteBreach 2026.2
Challenge Completed!
- Participants followed the clues starting right on the page
- The goal was to find the token hidden inside the vault
- Skills tested included OSINT, cryptography, steganography, and signal processing
- Writeups were required for the ticket to the workshop
Challenge Timeline
Started: September 1, 2026, at Noon CET
Ended: September 19, 2026, at Noon CET
The ByteBreach 2026.2 challenge is closed. Thanks to everyone who took part!
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Challenge Winner
1st Place
Damjan Ilikj
- Free attendance to "Cyber Everywhere, AI in Everything" workshop!
Best Notes
Highlights and memorable observations left by participants during ByteBreach 2026.2:
Best notes
Thus Spoke Octal
As any cybersecurity enthusiast would do, I scanned a random QR code and opened it directly on
my machine
Luckily, it was just the end of the internet, phew
Luckily, it was just the end of the internet, phew
There's a .git
There's always a .git
There's always a .git
The QR code turned out to be a joke,
I honestly felt kind of betrayed after getting all that way for nothing
I wrote a little watcher script, a crawler that polls the announcement page on a loop and diffs
the HTML
The moment anything changed I'd see exactly what
The moment anything changed I'd see exactly what
If I had squint hard enough I would probably get INHIBIT
Will have to revisit later when my sanity meter replenishes
Successful Participants
These participants successfully cracked ByteBreach 2026.2:
- Viktor Ivanovski
- Damjan Gjorgievski
- Aleksandra Spasenovska
- Daniel Popovski
- Syreone
- Dimitar Karadjovski
- Kristijan Angelovski
- Monika Jovevska
