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Reverse Engineer with Google Cloud's FLARE Team. Organizer of the Flare-On challenge.
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There seems to be some misinformation and pranks floating around out there so let me clear the record.
#flareon7
is happening this year and will launch Sept. 11th. Official announcement will be coming shortly.
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I refreshed the Flare-On website with a new look, and all the new data. Have a look:
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#flareon7
If you get stuck on an early challenge this year, I'm considering opening up the first several to be done in any order after the first week. Let me know what you think.
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#flareon7
The hall of fame is now live! Congratulations everyone. Prizes will begin shipping in Mid-November
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Early registration is live for
#flareon5
Head to to sign yourself up for six weeks of reversing mayhem.
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#flareon8
The hall of fame for this year is live. Congrats everybody, prizes start shipping this week.
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#flareon9
I apologize for the prize delay this year. The server is back online now, winners please update your shipping address if it has changed.
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#flareon7
In case you were stuck on an early challenge, I've opened up the first 4 to do in any order. Enjoy!
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Hall-of fame for
#flareon4
is up! Added an honorable mention section for the poor souls who got stuck on 12.
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#flareon7
It shouldn't need to be said, but please don't tweet flare-on flags during the contest.
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#flareon9
and we are LIVE! congrats to ktkaufman on first blood with a 1min4sec solve after launch
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#flareon9
Apologies once again for the very late prize shipping, but the second vendor has now informed me that are running late, and expect to finish production of the prizes Oct. 20th. Thank you for your patience.
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#flareon6
Solve the full version of Memecat Battlestation and bypass the first level of this year's flare-on challenge, which is the demo version of this awesome game. password "BHUSA2019"
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#flareon8
ends tomorrow night. Your rank among the winners might change as I purge some cheaters from the honor roll.
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Familiar names atop the
#flareon10
finishers:
@jinmo123
and
@drludde
. We need to preserve your DNA to shepherd our species through a future apocalypse.
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#flareon8
sysenter draws first blood with 86 seconds to solve the first challenge. Good luck everybody!
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#flareon7
you speedrunners might want to make sure you have a Win10 VM downloaded ahead of time for one of the late stage challenges
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Refreshed the website (), Gearing up for a new killer Flare On Challenge this year.
#flareon3
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The
#flareon4
Top 10 is now complete. Congrats 6:
@wayrick0x20
, 7:
@itszn13
, 8:
@_L4ys
, 9:
@groke1105
, 10:
@rwfpl
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#FLAREOn
winners 1: kao 2:
@riczho
3:
@rbaranyi
4:
@MykolaIlin
5: themadbat 6:
@pkosinar
7:
@tylerni7
8:
@0xf4b
9:
@yeuchimse
10:
@movcharuk
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#flareon6
a lot of familiar names pre-registered. In just under an hour these champions will be unleashed. The toughest competition is yourself though.
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@hasherezade
@_marklech_
@alex_k_polyakov
@pieceofsummer
@daubsi
@alex_k_polyakov
costs me hundreds of dollars a year in extra prizes ;)
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#flareon10
I've made all flag entries for chal 8 case Insensitive, please try again if you got a rejected flag
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1. ludde (1d 11h 1m)
2. dotsu (2d 5h 34m)
3. nneonneo (2d 8h 32m)
4. riatre (2d 10h 50m)
...
7. milan.bohacek (3d 59m)
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Monday is a good day to convince your boss to let you play
#flareon3
at work to improve your reversing skills.
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#flareon5
sysenter is the third finisher as of yesterday. Still just 3 finishers so far. The final challenge is proving to be a tough nut to crack.
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@0xdf_
flare-on 10 will come first. The prizes for 9 are due for delivery around the same time so that is when we will be starting the shipping.
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Andoryuuta drew first blood with a solve of the first challenge 49 seconds after we went live.
#flareon4
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You know you're a nerd when the only woman you see on a daily basis is the IDA Pro icon
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@lolzareverser
@jinmo123
@drludde
If you are implying that people exist outside of
#flareon10
then you aren't playing
#flareon10
hard enough
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@Myrtus0x0
new for this year, hasn't been much a problem in the past, but its gotten pretty brazen so its time to bring out the banhammer
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Early Registration is now open! check the website for link Good idea to register early and get your email
#flareon3
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@RubiksHnK
Challenge 2? There is no base64 in it. Probably easiest if you just figure out which cells have mines in them and which don't, then click the ones that don't, the program will give you the key
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@Raviv0S
Yes we had to change vendor very late in the game, but the prizes are scheduled to be in my hands around the time
#flareon10
starts, so shipping will begin then.
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I may be late to the party but I just found Python Tools for Visual Studio (
http://t.co/0AgAOlNq).
time to ditch my other python editors
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@daubsi
Would be cool, not sure if everyone would want to be listed that way though. I will look into adding that next year with some opt-in or out settings.
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Congrats to
#flareon3
finishers 11:
@mztropics
12:
@CodeAndSec
13:
@xedi25
14:
@yohanes
15: Stefan Marinescu
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#FLAREOn
this year's first place finisher is kao. You can stalk his blog at
http://t.co/rgPyDnRozq
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#FLAREOn
winners 21:
@xxldao
22:
@ryanmitj
23:
@professor__plum
24:
@z3r0zh0u
25: Merc 26:
@koczkatamas
27:
@codeandsec
28:
@klks84
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Anyone with a vested interest in windows intrusions should read my latest blog post:
http://blog.mandiant.com/archives/1207
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Wrote an article about writing shellcode with a c compiler:
http://bit.ly/bstvLn
. Better than Didier's approach.
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Keep in mind that the keys are Case Sensitive and will be a an email address in the domain
#flareon4
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From my friend Chris: "Fantasy Football is Dungeons and Dragons for jocks."
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@FuzzySec
Ahh flare-on 3. You could almost hear it. The sound, like a great river swell breaking through a dam, of a thousand dorks popping their own browsers and taking to twitter
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@lnxg33k
@FireEye
@CyberDefenders
Just a pro-tip, these have been published and available on the website since 2014.
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@Ch33r10
@Tinder
@FireEye
@SANSInstitute
@SANSPenTest
@PentesterLab
@cybraryIT
@hackthebox_eu
@VulnHub
Bringing attention to
#flareon4
one swipe at a time. Kudos!
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@AbuSaiif
Yes blog post says stats are as of 10am. Looks like there is one finisher after that time from SA. we will be updating the blog post stats soon though.
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Some stats to start off
#AskFLARE
, 3782 people downloaded the first challenge, 1201 solved the first challenge, and 99 people have won
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I wrote a blog post about the fxsst.dll malware issue I hinted at a few weeks ago.
http://blog.mandiant.com/archives/1786
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this is cool, but I would LOVE for someone to make a similar tool for machine level debugging:
http://bit.ly/jzxZdL
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