our motto

Learning for everyone.

Free cybersecurity lessons and CTF challenges. Learn at your pace, then teach what you know.

Know something? Teach here
  • Free, always
  • At your own pace
  • Every level welcome

Learn, compete or teach

CTF-ORION is built on two parts, learning paths and challenges, and it is open to anyone who wants to teach. All of it is free.

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Learning paths

Short lessons in a set order. Each module ends with a small practice flag, so you know the idea clicked before moving on.

  • Foundations track for complete beginners
  • Paths for crypto, forensics, reversing and OSINT
  • No deadlines and no streaks to protect
Explore learning paths
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Challenges

File-based puzzles you download and solve on your own machine. Open around the clock, from beginner to insane.

  • Static and file challenges available now
  • Flags look like CTF-ORION{...}
  • Solve alone or with your team
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Teach

Students, professionals and hobbyists are all welcome to teach. Share what you know with people who are where you once were.

  • Write a lesson or a full learning path
  • Build challenges for practice or events
  • Your name stays on everything you publish
Start teaching

Events are optional. When we run one, it adds a clock and an event scoreboard on top of everything above.

See events

What you can play today

We are starting with file and static challenges. Machine-based categories arrive together with our tunnel system.

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Cryptography Forensics Reverse engineering OSINT Steganography Misc

Coming soon soon

Web instances Pwn Boot2Root King of the hill

Play solo or with a team

Choose how you want to be counted. You can change your mind later.

Solo player

Every solve counts for you alone. You appear on the Solo board and on the All board next to teams.

Team player

Teams hold up to 25 members. You can be in one team at a time and switch teams whenever you need to.

Fair play rules

These rules apply to everyone, in practice and in events.

One person, one place

One account per person and one team at a time. Accounts we find playing from more than one place are restricted.

Flag sharing ends teams

If we trace a shared flag during an event, the team that used it can be banned, and so can the team that shared it.

Sharers are named

When a leak is confirmed, we publish who shared the flag.

Shared flags and duplicate accounts are removed from every board.

Read the fair play rules
first event

Our first CTF starts 1 January 2027

Doors open at 00:00 Bangladesh time (UTC+6). Format and categories will be announced before registration opens.

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Run your own CTF on CTF-ORION

Universities, clubs and teams can host an event at their own address. Keep machine challenges on your own servers and let CTF-ORION handle registration, flags and the scoreboard.

Read the hosting proposal
ctforion.com/your-org
  • Your own event pageBranding, rules, schedule and a scoreboard just for your event.
  • Your machines stay yoursHost boxes on your infrastructure. We run the main CTF platform.
  • Tunnels for private boxesA tunnelling system is on the way. Documentation coming soon.