upCTF 2026

upCTF (University of Porto CTF) is a Jeopardy CTF event hosted by xSTF (https://xstf.pt), a cybersecurity academic team from Portugal.

upCTF 2026 is the first edition of this event, we hope to have a lot of teams joining and give us a good review so we can improve and make this event every year!

The CTF will take place online with a duration of 48 hours, from

Sat, 7 Mar. 2026, 09:00 UTC to Mon, 9 Mar. 2026, 09:00 UTC.

We will have the following categories:

Misc

Reverse Engineering

Cryptography

Forensics

Binary Exploitation

Web Exploitation

OSINT

Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/

Infra sponsored by Ethiack (https://ethiack.com)

Thank you to our sponsors:

- Ethiack

- Caido

- Hackviser

- APISEC University

- Knight Squad Academy

Official URL: https://ctf.xstf.pt/

CTFtime URL: https://ctftime.org/event/3073/

Official prize text: 1st -> 2x kWAPTA, 12x Caido, 3x ASCP, 4x CASA, 9x ACP, 3x Hackviser

2nd -> 1x kWAPTA, 6x Caido, 2x ASCP, 3x CASA, 7x ACP, 1x Hackviser

3rd -> 1x kWAPTA, 3x Caido, 2x CASA, 5x ACP, 1x Hackviser

4th -> 1x kWAPTA, 1x Caido, 3x ACP

5th -> 1x kWAPTA, 1x CASA, 1x ACP

Best writeups on 4 designated challenges -> 1x kWAPTA voucher per writeup