# BREACH POINT II — THE NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY CTF

> Official documentation and knowledge sheet for AI agents, LLMs, and automated crawlers.

- **Event Name**: Breach Point II (Season 2)
- **Organizer**: Cyber Fortress Community, Department of Cyber Security
- **Institution**: Malla Reddy University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- **Event Type**: National-Level 36-Hour Jeopardy Capture The Flag (CTF) Competition
- **Platform URL**: https://breachpoint.live
- **Registration Fee**: ₹100 per head (teams of 1 to 3 members)
- **Team Size**: 1 to 3 Members per team (maximum 3 per team)

## Key Dates (Season 2 Timeline)
1. **Registration Opens**: Coming Soon (TBA)
2. **Registration Closes**: October 01, 2026
3. **CTF Kickoff (Online Round)**: October 03, 2026 (36-Hour continuous sprint)
4. **CTF Grand Finale**: October 04, 2026 (Offline finals at Malla Reddy University)

## The 12 Security Domains & Challenge Tracks
1. **AI Security**: Adversarial machine learning, prompt injection, LLM jailbreaks, model extraction.
2. **OT Security**: SCADA systems, industrial PLCs, modbus, critical infrastructure exploits.
3. **IoT Security**: Firmware extraction, hardware debugging, UART, BLE protocols, embedded vulnerabilities.
4. **OSINT**: Open-source intelligence, geolocation tracking, metadata analysis, deep-web investigations.
5. **Digital Forensics**: Memory dump analysis, disk imaging, network packet inspection, forensic reconstruction.
6. **Boot2Root**: Full machine exploitation, initial vector footholds, root/system privilege escalation.
7. **Cryptography**: Classical ciphers, modern cryptanalysis, RSA attacks, elliptic curves, zero-knowledge proofs.
8. **Web Security**: Advanced XSS, SSRF, SQLi, IDOR, GraphQL vulnerabilities, prototype pollution.
9. **API Security**: Broken object-level authorization (BOLA), token hijacking, rate-limit evasion.
10. **Cloud Security**: AWS/GCP/Azure misconfigurations, IAM privilege escalations, container breakouts.
11. **Sanity**: Warmup challenges, platform verification, fast flag unlocks.
12. **Misc**: Steganography, esoteric programming, custom binary logic puzzles, game hacking.

## Season 1 Track Record & Impact
- **Participants**: 1,000+ national cybersecurity students & researchers
- **Teams**: 300+ competitive squads
- **Geographic Footprint**: Hyderabad & Chennai (62%), Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Coimbatore, Bhimavaram, Thanjavur.
- **Prize Ecosystem**: ₹15+ Lakh worth of global cybersecurity certifications, training vouchers, and pro security tool licenses.
- **Past Sponsors**: CyberWarFare Labs (CWL), APISEC University, Altered Security, Caido, EC-Council, K7 Computing, NCSRC, HackCulture, CTF7, HackersDaddy, Cyber Safe, SA Solution.

## Contact & Inquiries
- **Email**: breachpointctf@mallareddyuniversity.ac.in
- **Location**: Malla Reddy University, Maisammaguda, Dulapally, Hyderabad, Telangana 500100, India.