Search Party CTF

Trace Labs will be onsite hosting a Search Party CTF during B-Sides Bloomington. This is a non-theoretical CTF that offers contestants the opportunity to put their investigative skills to good use in a safe and responsible way. The “CTF” will feature active missing persons cases that law enforcement has requested the public’s assistance with. The “flags” in this CTF are key pieces of intelligence that our LE partners have denoted as useful to their investigation. Teams of up to four people will compete to find these “flags” for the missing persons cases featured in the CTF. Intelligence collection is entirely passive and will consist mostly of sketching out a person’s online footprint. This is not only a great way to #OSINT4Good but also great experience in real world intelligence collection. More information about our CTFs can be found at: https://www.tracelabs.org/initiatives/search-party

To get a head start on the event you can check out the following resources: 

Contestant Guide: https://download2.tracelabs.org/Trace-Labs-OSINT-Search-Party-CTF-Contestant-Guide_v1.pdf

Demo of the CTF Platform: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=f526PYm6cqU&list=PLlaJQR699XLt4ib7yWgvaWM7KA12uTlB9&index=2

Briefing Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYdQIiMzRlI

Trace Labs OSINT Field Manual: https://github.com/tracelabs/tofm/blob/main/tofm.md