End of Ctrl+Space 2025 day 2! In today's competition, teams exploited our in-orbit challenges - plus a lot of conventional hacking. Scoreboard freeze shows a tight race for first place https://t.co/3LQAFnmcuz Bonus: see how teams are playing the 3-day-long King of The Hill 🔥

🚀 Mission Control here. The qualifying round of Ctrl+Space 2025 has come to an end! GG to all participants: * 599 crews showed up, with nearly 659 solves. * The top 5 eligible teams will soon be back in orbit🛰️ Finals at ESTEC 🇳🇱, Nov 4–6. We´ll see you at launch!

> You mistakenly pressed the button to eject the instruction manual & this ship is infamous across the stars for a labyrinth of controls no sane mind can master. > Returning home will demand more than luck. Come rev this and more at https://t.co/RR6O9BQ2KT ! GAME IS LIVE 🚩🍝

🚀 Ctrl+Space Quals have already kicked off on Voyager 1 🛰️! Due to light-speed delay, for us on Earth, the round officially starts in ~24h only Sept 20, 09:00 UTC. Don’t miss it… You might just reach the stars ✨ https://t.co/wUc726qEh0

The orbital pasta is almost ready 🍝🛰️ Registration for Ctrl+Space CTF Quals is open 👉 https://t.co/wUc726rc6y ⚡ 24h of space hacking kicks off THIS SATURDAY 20th, 9:00 UTC 🌌 Secure your spot at the @esa 3S Conference finals in November & bring your exploit to orbit! 🚀

We're excited to be creating the challenges and organizing this unique CTF 🚩 come join us to hack our intergalactic recipes! 🍝🚀

🌐𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 • Jeopardy-style • Space-themed CTF • 📅September 20, 09:00 UTC (24 hours) 🚀𝗢𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘀 • ESA’s Security for Space Systems (3S) Conference ESTEC, Netherlands 🇳🇱 • 📅 November 4–6 • Jeopardy + KOTH + In-Orbit

Still hacking with your feet on the ground? Not anymore, we cooked 🍝 Join Ctrl+Space CTF Quals (20–21 Sep) to be one of the 5 finalist teams to play in-orbit challenges running on @D_Orbit ION Satellite Carrier 🛰️ at @esa 3S conference 🇳🇱 (4–6 Nov)! https://t.co/cvS1NKTvZF

Overall, our seventh final, and another good result. We come back happy after meeting and competing with so many old and new friends. Wishing good luck to the next organizers - see you all soon ♥️🍝

And to @PoliTOnews @polimi @necstlaboratory @ConsorzioCINI for their logistical support over the years

Our results wouldn't have been possible without the support of our sponsors, who helped us get the whole team together to Vegas: 🥇 #7Layers - #DRIVESEC 🥈 @_revng - @KeylessTech - @WuerthPhoenix - @CNIT_TLC 🙌 #STACKBITS

End of day 1: the mhackeroni kitchen is in full swing @defcon CTF - let's cook 🔥 Thanks for the support to 🥇 #7Layers - #DRIVESEC 🥈 @_revng - @KeylessTech - @WuerthPhoenix - @CNIT_TLC 🙌 #STACKBITS

🚨 Sponsoring us?! The mhackeroni kitchen will open its usual pop-up restaurant in Vegas at @defcon this August 🍝 There's still time to help us make it - write us if you'd like to discuss! Let's get your logo out there on this summer's hottest piece of apparel 👕🚩

ncuts, nfuncs, nquals, nhackers @mhackeroni

Yet another year, yet another qualification!!! @mhackeroni See you at Las Vegas probably!! :D

You can also find us on the thing named after the stuff above your head 👀

That's it! Congrats to MMM 🥇 & thanks to all teams for a great fight, @0rganizers and @shellphish for the apéro 🍻, Blue Water for an amazing (and eventful) afterparty, @EmuExploit for continuing the pineapple pizza tradition (🍍🚫🍕 tho) - a presto! ♥️

A huge thank you to @necstlaboratory and @polimi, @PoliTOnews, @ConsorzioCINI for their essential support, and to everyone who helped fly us to the desert again 🎰🇺🇸

This wouldn't have been possible without the help of our amazing sponsors, who supported us to get everyone on site to do our best: 💎@BVTECHGroup 🥇@nozominetworks @PwC_Italia 🥈 @WuerthPhoenix @KeylessTech https://t.co/K05RmEljRU,

It was an intense weekend, powered by caffeine, team meetings, coordination of the whole kitchen 🍝 and reacting appropriately when finding bugs in the code 🤌🤌