The world's most famous college hacking competition was won by the students of the CrySyS Lab who are sponsored by evopro

It was the fourth time the CrySyS Data and System Security Laboratory (CrySyS Lab) - which operates on the campus of the Budapest University of Technology – has entered the prestigious iCTF hacking competition organized by the University of South Carolina.

evopro has first sided with the promising Hungarian team in 2013 acknowledging their aptitude, their passion for their field of expertise, and their thorough commitment to their work. Thanks to evopro's sponsorship CrySyS Lab was able to travel to iCTF multiple times, and after their second place finish last year, this year they stood on the top of the podium, beating 87 teams competing around the world.

The teams joined the US competition remotely via the Internet, entering an online environment simulating realistic scenarios. The competitors had to defend 41 different vulnerable applications in their own system, and by discovering the security holes they also had to attack the systems of other teams. The Hungarian team won by a wide margin.

The BME CrySyS Lab has already established its expertise in the field when in 2011 they participated in the discovery and analysis of a computer malware called DuQu, and then after a malware called Flame was discovered in May of 2012, CrySys Lab was the first one to publish a detailed technical analysis about it. In February of 2013 the members of the team have provided a detailed analysis of MiniDuke, a campaign that also targeted governments around the world, and in March of the same year they analyzed an 8-year long series of targeted IT attacks called TeamSpy.