Russia has held the BRICS+ CTF cybersecurity tournament: 105 countries, 5 continents, 1257 teams.

Russia held the online cybersecurity tournament BRICS+ CTF. It was hosted in two stages: the first, qualifying stage, was held on October 5-6, and the final was held on November 16.

Organisers of the Tornamnent are ITMO University, Association of Chief Information Security Officers (ACISO - ARSIB), All-Russian Public Movement of Mentors of Children and Youth "Mentors of Russia" (Nastavniki Rossii).

1,257 teams from 105 countries, five continents, participated in the qualifying stage. Twenty teams from eight countries competed in the final. The first place was taken by the international team Friendly Maltese Citizens, the second place by NE_SPRUSH (Russia), and the third place by Bushwhackers (Russia). Fourth and fifth places were also taken by Russian IT specialists.

It is noteworthy that 608 teams from the BRICS founding countries participated in the tournament: 389 Russian, 102 Indian, 98 Chinese, 11 South African, and 8 Brazilian. The top 10 participants included five Russian and two Chinese teams. The tasks for the participants were prepared in thirteen programming languages. In the final, which was held in the Attack-Defence format, the participants had to detect vulnerabilities on their server and try to close them without disrupting the functionality of the services and at the same time carry out attacks on the servers of other teams - "capture the flag".

Since cybersecurity was named by the leaders of the BRICS countries as one of the main challenges of our time, the program of the BRICS+ CTF tournament, which is being held in the year of Russia's chairmanship in BRICS, is aimed at developing human resources to ensure the information security of the Russian Federation, the BRICS countries and BRICS+.

The general partner of the competition is the Aquarius group of companies, and the general information agency is TASS. The project is supported by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI), entering the top 100 "Strong Ideas for the New Time" of the ASI, and Rossotrudnichestvo. The T.Hunter company headed the prize fund of the cyber competition, the companies "Positive Technologies" and "Astra" became partners of the competition.