CTFs played
National qualifiers, international events, and on-site finals since 2022.
Cybersecurity lab at University of Bari.
Started as a handful of students competing in CTFs, the lab has grown into a community that plays in national and international competitions, trains the next group of students every year, and publishes the research and writeups along the way.
Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro
Mntcrl turns cybersecurity study into competition-tested skill, public research, and a community that teaches the next group.
People in the lab
Students, alumni, and researchers working side by side at the University of Bari.
Public notes
Competition writeups, CVE research, and security tooling published for anyone to use.
Inside Mntcrl
What happens inside Mntcrl.
The lab is built around repeated practice: weekend CTFs, workshops, shared infrastructure, and public writeups that keep the work useful.
Training
Students start with guided labs, learn the core categories, and build enough confidence to compete with the team.
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Competition
Weekly practice becomes national qualifiers, international events, and on-site finals with M0NT3C4RL0.
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Research
The work continues after the flag: vulnerabilities, forensic tooling, technical notes, and reproducible writeups.
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Latest from LinkedIn
Competition results, lab updates, and field notes from our company page.
Mntcrl Lab
Cybersecurity research lab
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MntcrlCTF2026 has officially come to an end 🚩 We want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who participated, supported, and contributed to making this event a success. Bringing this competition together has been a privilege, and we are incredibly proud of the engagement and talent displayed over the weekend. Here is a look at the CTF by the numbers: - 👨💻 550+ registered users - 📢300+ teams engaged, with over 150 successfully solving at least one challenge - 📝 49 challenges across Web, Crypto, Misc, Rev, Pwn, OSINT, and Forensics - 🚩 8,600+ total flag submissions - 🅾️ 5+ new 0day vulnerabilities discovered over the past few months, which are now...
Mntcrl Lab
Cybersecurity research lab
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🎉We're excited to finally say it out loud: MntcrlCTF 2026 is happening 🎉 Mark your calendars: June 27-28, starting at 16:00 UTC. You'll have 24 hours to work your way through a jeopardy-style competition with challenges spanning Forensics, OSINT, Crypto, Web, Misc, Rev and Pwn. Registrations open 24 hours before the start, on June 26 at 16:00 UTC: 👉 https://ctf.mntcrl.it 📋 https://lnkd.in/dbVBqEJR Come try to beat us at our own game. Good luck, you'll need it.🏁 MntcrlCTF2026 CTF CaptureTheFlag CyberSecurity Cyber
Mntcrl Lab
Cybersecurity research lab
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We just wrapped up the 2026 edition of ZeroDays CTF 🎯 Competing as Mntcrl and Pwncetta e Pecorino (both international teams), we placed 3rd and 5th out of 153 teams worldwide! The top spot was just *two challenges away*; the kind of close finish only a CTF scoreboard can make properly frustrating 😆 The challenge set was genuinely excellent: from the usual categories such as rev, web, crypto, etc. to a few tasks where both intended *and* unintended solutions worked (always a treat), plus even some physical challenges like lockpicking. We spent plenty of time staring at things that looked trivial and weren’t… and, inevitably, ignored a few things that *...