Issue dossier
The report links the badge to CTF hacking and describes hidden challenges, but does not document participant eligibility, badge count, price, registration tier, badge distribution, pickup, delivery, access-control role, challenge rules, scoring, data handling, completion, support, or whether every attendee received one.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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CTF, distribution, and credential scope gap · named post-event account · event interaction documented; issuance terms unknown
The badge is not presented as an admission credential, universal attendee entitlement, complete CTF platform, or verified distribution record.
- Badge
- PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge
- Category
- CTF, distribution, and credential scope gap
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- named post-event account
- Status
- event interaction documented; issuance terms unknown
- Timeframe
- 2025 event report; reviewed 2026-08-04
- Source note
- Best of PWNEDCR 0x08 by Simón Correa.
Evidence
Related Resources
current official series home
Organizer-controlled PWNEDCR home reviewed on 2026-08-04. It is currently the PWNEDCR 0x9 site, so it establishes live series continuity only and does not preserve a historical 0x08 event page, badge archive, maker credit, technical release, allocation record, or image-reuse basis.
Badge: PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge
named post-event account
Fluid Attacks' named post-event account is the recovered artifact-level source for PWNEDCR 0x08. It documents the 2025 event context, a physical electronic badge that attendees hacked through the CTF, and hidden Easter eggs/challenges. It publishes no technical archive or badge-maker credit; its generic Unsplash skull visual is not a factual badge photo or reusable-image basis.
Badge: PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge
Source trail
Evidence Sources
Fluid Attacks / Simón Correa · retrieved 2026-05-15
Named post-event account documenting PWNEDCR 0x08 on October 18-19, 2025 at the Auditorio Nacional / Centro Costarricense de Ciencia y Cultura in San José; it describes an electronic badge, badge hacking during the CTF, and hidden Easter eggs/challenges. It is sufficient evidence of the real artifact and event context, but not a hardware, firmware, badge-maker, allocation, delivery, or reusable-image archive.
Badge: PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge
PWNEDCR · retrieved 2026-05-15
Current organizer-controlled PWNEDCR home establishing only live series continuity as reviewed on 2026-08-04. It has rolled to 0x9 and does not itself evidence the 2025 0x08 badge, venue, dates, technical design, distribution, authorship, or image rights.
Badge: PWNEDCR 0x08 Electronic Badge