TISC 2026 Summary

Mission Summary

Target neutralised. It studied every move we’ve ever made. Except this one.

Mission complete. On to the next.

In this edition, participants took on a series of challenges across domains such as Web Penetration, Forensics, Reverse Engineering, Steganography, Pwn, and OSINT.

A new game modality was also introduced where additional challenges were unlocked at specific points along the journey.

TISC 2026 was held over 9 days, from 11 Sep 2026 (2100H) - 20 Sep 2026 (2100H).

Statistics

1,119 cybersecurity experts answered the call in TISC 2026 to defeat The Singularity, with 1,059 solving at least one challenge. Here are some statistics:

2026 Winners' Results

This year's top five cash prize winners are:

Rank	Name	Cash Prize	Writeup
1	Muhammad Hazley Bin Samsudin	$5,337	View write up
2	Vincent Tan	$4,337	View write up
3	Cai Shuce	$3,337	View write up
4	Lim Jin Kai	$2,337	View write up
5	Hrithik Ram Ganesh Kumar	$1,337	View write up

Challenge Creators

A big thank you to all challenge creators! Your challenges have allowed cybersecurity experts to put their skills to the test and your identity will now be revealed:

Level 1 - 🗃 REDACTED (OSINT)

Level 2 - My Printer has a Secret (Misc, OSINT)

Additional Challenge - EXPCalibur [Arena Challenge]

Level 3 - Lion City Layover (RE, Web)

Additional Challenge - 👾 Capture-the-System [Arena Challenge]

Level 4 - ZyGPT (LLM, Steganography, Forensics)

Level 5 - Trash Talk (Forensics, RE)

Additional Challenge - JKU WiFi Firmware Management Console

Level 6 - Provenance (Misc, Re)

Level 7 - Omnitrix (Pwn)

Level 8 - Cmdwrap (RE, Pwn)

Level 9 - GameVault (RE)

TISC Swag

The Top 50 participants with the highest scores will receive a customised, exclusive TISC keycap.