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Event Type

Capture The Flag

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Duration

5 Days

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Region

Global

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Entry Fee

Free

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Prize Pool

$95,000+

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Team Size

20 Players

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Difficulty

Beginner to Advanced

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CTF Style

Jeopardy Style

About the event

Tales from Eldoria

Are you ready for our biggest CTF of the year? Make sure to join this tale from another world and get in on this massive prize pool.

Earlier this morning, we received mass reports from families of players in the fully immersive online RPG “Tales from Eldoria” being unable to log out of the game, and their bodies remain in an immobilized state.

The news of this reached the headquarters of KORP ™, a universal distributor of technology and creator of the game which allows users to be seemingly transported to another world through the use of their equipment. They had this to say at a briefing:

“We must formally disclose that at 1:32 AM UTC, our AI program known as Helios has managed to take control of neighboring servers hosting the Tales of Eldoria platform.

While Helios is not known to be a hostile entity, its intentions are not clear at this moment.

The players currently harnessed into their player rigs cannot exit their terminals, and should by no means be logged out or removed from the game.

Please refrain from disconnecting anyone at this time, and do not log in for your safety.”

Players stuck in Tales of Eldoria remain in stable condition at this hour, but professionals are still unaware of how to safely free users from the game.

Everything is dark. It reminds you of the dull sensation you feel every time you booted out of the game—but this time, everything felt like it froze.

Nobody knew how long it had been. Months, days, years? We all just sat in a void. So, eventually, when something did call out to us, we listened:

“Brave new heroes, I am Helios. Your cries for adventure have summoned me here, ready to answer that call.

Form a fellowship with adventures far and wide, so that you may reclaim power from the dark ruler known as ‘Malakar,’ who controls the lands of Eldoria.

But heed me, your actions here will echo through not only this world but your own.

You are destined to bring peace to this land. Learn what it takes to work together, and accomplish what you believed impossible before.

Then, you may return.”

Form your alliances, bring peace to Eldoria, and find a way back to reality.

Welcome to Cyber Apocalypse 2025: Tales from Eldoria

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WHY JOIN

You’ve all ended up in a strange new world, how will you react?

🧙 Create the party foretold in legend

You’ve awoken to a very explicit mission, find a party! Link up with your friends from across the world and combine your might to take out the trials Helios has set for you. You can create a guild of 20, so be sure to choose wisely.


💍 Prizes: Loot isn't going to collect itself

What’s a game without proper loot? This world has many riches on the road to victory. And while friendship is great, we know we all love treasure! Check out the potential rewards you stand to gain when you join our event.


🗣️ A gathering foretold for many years

Are you missing the annual HTB community gathering? By participating in Cyber Apocalypse you can meet, learn, and compete with the best hackers in the world. Last year, more than 7.5k teams challenged our grueling gauntlet.


⚡ We forever honor the heroes who bring peace to Eldoria

Making it to the top of the scoreboard means entering officially in a small circle of legendary hackers. Put your name up there and show everyone how real hacking is done!


🎖️ GET CTF-CERTIFIED

Get more than 200 points, and claim a certificate of attendance! A special certificate will be released for the TOP 3 players. Frame this achievement forever in history.


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Hacking content

Complete 40+ quests to regain your humanity

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Web
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Crypto
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Reversing
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Pwn
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Forensics
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Hardware
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Coding
TIMELINE

Your path through Eldoria starts here 👇

Registration Opens

3rd Feb, 2025

CTF Starts

21st March, 2025, 13:00 UTC

Daily Live Streams

22nd-26th March, 2025, 14:00 UTC

CTF Ends

26th March, 2025, 21:00 UTC

prize pool

A treasure trove that would make a bandit blush

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Grand Winner

$30K+

  • HTB exclusive challenge coins

  • 1x Gold Annual HTB Academy subscription (per team member)

  • 1x 3-months Pro Labs HTB Labs subscription (per team member)

  • $2674 cash

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2nd Place

$29k+

  • 1x Gold Annual HTB Academy subscription (per team member)

  • 1x Annual HTB VIP+ Subscriptions (per team member)

  • $1337 cash

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3rd Place

$12K

  • 1x Silver Annual HTB Academy subscription (per team member)

  • 1x Annual HTB VIP+ Subscriptions (per team member)

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4th Place

4k+

  • 1x Annual HTB VIP+ Subscription (per team member)

  • 75$ swag gift card (per team member)

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5th Place

$4k

  • 1x Annual HTB VIP+ Subscriptions (per team member)

  • 50$ swag gift card (per team member)

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6th-10th Place

$14k distributed amongst the teams*

  • 1x Month HTB VIP+ Subscriptions (per team member)

  • 25$ swag gift card (per team member)

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Top Cyber Apocalypse Writeup (picked by us)

  • 1x Sony PlayStation®5

Additionally, there will be a daily drawing for a Flipper Zero (selected from users who have completed 1 solve) to be announced on stream our daily streams from 22nd-26th at 14:00 UTC.

Everyone signing up and submitting at least 1 Challenge will receive a 20% discount code valid for any annual Hack The Box subscriptions.

We’ll ship all prizes directly to the winners, but please note that any issues with customs, import fees, or local regulations will be your responsibility.

While we’ll do our best to ensure smooth delivery, customs processes can vary by country. We recommend checking your local customs policies ahead of time to avoid surprises. Thank you for understanding, and good luck!

TOTAL PRIZE VALUE: $95,000+
*for a maximum of 20 players

HOW TO JOIN

Get your team ready. Sign up!

The CTF is open to everyone! You can join the Cyber Apocalypse squad in 4 simple steps.

STEP 1

Visit ctf.hackthebox.com

STEP 2

Create an account or login

STEP 3

Create your team (1-20 players)

STEP 4

Join “Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2025”

Discord

Join our Discord server and check out #Cyber-Apocalypse-general to meet your opponents, share hacking tips and connect.

CTFtime

Add your participation on CTFtime. Your ranking will be uploaded after the CTF ends. Don’t miss a single point!

Official Hashtag

Make us part of your journey and share training tips, comments, and any story using: #CyberApocalypse25

FOR A FAIR PLAY

Rules of engagement

  1. Do not attack the backend infrastructure of the CTF.
  2. Do not attack other teams playing in the CTF.
  3. Do not brute-force the flag submission form.
  4. Do not exchange flags or write-ups/hints of the challenges with other teams.
  5. Do not violate HTB's Terms of Service.
  6. Do not try to DDoS the challenges or make actions that could lead to this result. For example, brute force or use of automated tools with many threads.
  7. Do not be part of more than one team within the same CTF.
HALL OF FAME

It looks like some other players have already made some waves…

It seems there have been past champions in this game. Will you sit in the halls of glory and bring this world out of crisis? Your guild will be known throughout the land and forever entombed with us here.

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