Binghamton CTF
Student cybersecurity club exploring software security, binary exploitation, cryptography, and embedded systems. Open to all majors!
- #13 Global Rank
- #1 in New York
(MITRE eCTF 2026 International Competition)
What we do
Embedded and Hardware
- Microcontroller firmware
- UART/I2C sniffing
- Voltage glitching
- Physical fault injection
Binary Exploitation
- Disassemble x86/ARM binaries
- Audit C code
- Craft exploits using Ghidra, GDB, and Pwntools
Cryptography
- Break insecure ciphers
- Analyze Diffie-Hellman key exchanges
- Inspect cryptographic side channels
Web and Forensics
- Expose web vulnerabilities (SQLi, SSRF, XSS)
- Analyze PCAPs
Helpful Courses and FAQ
- CS 220: Computer Architecture
Assembly, registers, processor datapath, and memory hierarchies. Great for reverse engineering. - CS 310: Data Structures & Algorithms
Algorithmic complexity, memory representation, and pointer manipulation.
Do I need prior experience?
No! We teach everything from scratch, starting from basic Linux commands to binary
reversing.
Is membership free?
Yes, 100% free for all Binghamton University students.
Thursday Hack Nights
We meet at 5 p.m. Thursdays in the Fabrication Lab (first floor of the Engineering Building) to reverse-engineer binaries, test hardware attacks, eat pizza, and prepare for competitions. Everyone is welcome — just bring a laptop!
Learn more about CTF
Contact us
Faculty Lead and Advisor
Associate Professor Aravind Prakash
Leads systems security and binary analysis research at Binghamton University. Serves
as advisor for the eCTF team, integrating embedded security into the School of Computing
curriculum.
Co-Captains
Samruddhi (Sammy) Deshpande
4+1 master's student in computer science. Competed in both 2025 and 2026 eCTF seasons.
Leads defensive firmware architecture, authentication protocols, and member onboarding.
Pratik Kamble
Doctoral researcher in binary analysis, reverse engineering, and software debloating.
Co-captain for the 2026 and 2027 eCTF campaigns.