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CyberCup 2026 · Champions of Italy

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Champions of Italy

What began as a handful of University of Bari students now competes year-round, builds original challenges, and holds the CyberCup national title.

M0NT3C4RL0 at the CyberCup 2026 awards M0NT3C4RL0, champions of CyberCup 2026

What we practice.

CTFs span a handful of core disciplines. These are the ones we train hardest, each with the sub-skills and tooling that come up most often in competition.

Binary Exploitation

Turning memory corruption and logic flaws into control of a running process, from a first crash to a working shell.

Cryptography

Breaking schemes that lean on weak randomness, bad padding, or reused keys, and the protocol mistakes that undo good primitives.

Web Security

Chaining authentication flaws, injection, and access-control gaps to reach data and functionality that should be off-limits.

Reverse Engineering

Reading compiled binaries and custom formats, defeating obfuscation, and recovering the logic behind a program's behavior.

Digital Forensics

Reconstructing what happened from memory dumps, disk images, and captured traffic, then proving it with the artifacts.

Open-source Intelligence

Connecting public records, infrastructure clues, and social traces to identify the person, place, or system hidden in plain sight.

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M0NT3C4RL0 celebrating its CyberCup result with the trophy

How a weekly practice room became Italy's champion team.

The result belongs to every person who trained, reviewed a solve, rebuilt infrastructure, and kept knowledge moving through the team.

Mntcrl Lab, University of Bari Aldo Moro

Built by Mntcrl

Two events, one community: original challenges online and a live security festival in Bari.

MntcrlCTF

Our open online CTF, designed and operated by the team with original challenges across the disciplines we play every week.

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HackInFest

Bari’s live security festival brings together competition, workshops, talks, and the people shaping Italy’s cybersecurity community.

Visit HackInFest

Join M0NT3C4RL0

Meet the community, practice with the team, and follow upcoming competitions. Build the fundamentals, review solves together, then join us for live rounds.

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Get in touch.

Reach out for training, events, lab visits, or research collaborations.