Victory for the women's team from dcua-school in Cyber & OSINT CTF
January 22, 2026
On January 22, 2025, under the auspices of the National Cybersecurity Coordination Center and CRDF Global, the All-Ukrainian Women’s Cyber Competition “SHE DEFENDS: Cyber & OSINT”. Women professionals in cybersecurity and IT, students, and young specialists seeking to develop in the field of cyber security were invited to participate. Contestants were divided into teams of up to six people, with the possible participation of men (up to two people).
Our team consisted of:
- Anna Proskurnya
- Polina Goncharenko
- Anna Melezhyk
- Victoria Shevchenko
- David Shanidze
- Oleksii Bondarenko
and took 1st place, demonstrating the best result.
Training course "Integrating the future-proof EU cybersecurity ecosystem in Ukraine"
January 03, 2026
The Laboratory staff took part in the training course “Integrating the future-proof EU cybersecurity ecosystem in Ukraine”, which is a continuation of a series of summer school courses of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet module “European experience for improving the resilience of critical infrastructure in Ukraine”.
read more ..Victory in League of Legends at the First National CTF
December 01, 2025
From November 20 to December 1, 2025, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR MOD) hosted the First National CTF. At the end of the main stage, 40 teams achieved the maximum score by completing all basic tasks. The dcua team was among the top-scoring teams and qualified for the next stage. To further differentiate the rankings, the organizers held a bonus round with higher-difficulty tasks — League of Legends. Participation in this round was available only to teams that achieved the maximum score in the main stage. The winner of the bonus round was declared the overall champion. The League of Legends bonus round was won by dcua, consisting of:
- Andrii VOITSEKHOVSKYI
- Anna PROSKURNIA
- Kostyantyn PUZIKOV
- Maksym HINKUL
- Anton VASALATIY
After accounting for the bonus round, the dcua team scored a total of 3450 points in the competition.
dcua-school Wins Kharkiv Regional Rookie CTF 2025
November 24, 2025
On November 23, 2025, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics hosted the Kharkiv Regional Rookie CTF 2025 on the Cyber Ice Box platform, developed with support from the USAID “Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure of Ukraine” project to foster practical skills among young cybersecurity specialists. The competition featured 42 teams from various Ukrainian educational institutions. The dcua-school team, consisting of:
- Anzhelika BIELIANTSEVA
- Halyna VLASENKO
- Polina HONCHARENKO
- Anna MELEZHYK
- Viktoriia SHEVCHENKO
secured 1st place overall. This victory once again demonstrates the high level of training and the strong potential of our young cybersecurity professionals.
dcua Wins BEST LVIV CTF 2025
November 22, 2025
On November 15, 2025, the dcua team passed the qualification stage of the competition and earned the right to participate in the BEST CTF 2025 final, securing 1st place with 364 points.
read more ..dcua victory at CTFLviv 2025
November 13, 2025
On November 13–14, 2025, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv hosted the nationwide competition CTFLviv 2025.
read more ..dcua and dcua-girls Honored by KPI Academic Council
November 10, 2025
Our teams dcua and dcua-girls were awarded certificates by the Academic Council of KPI for their outstanding achievements at DEADFACE CTF 2025 and CTF for Women organized by NKCC! This recognition demonstrates that persistence, teamwork, and passion for cybersecurity pay off. It is particularly rewarding to see student achievements acknowledged at the university level. Below are photos and scans of the certificates received by our teams. This is a small, yet very meaningful victory for every participant and for our entire community.
read more ..DCUA — winner of international DEADFACE CTF 2025
October 27, 2025
The dcua team won the international competition DEADFACE CTF 2025, held online on October 25–26, 2025. DEADFACE CTF is an open international cybersecurity competition organized by the non-profit Cyber Hacktic(San Antonio, Texas, USA). The tournament traditionally attracts top teams from around the world and features a wide range of jeopardy-style challenges, including web security, reverse engineering, cryptography, forensics, and exploitation. 787 teams with non-zero scores participated, highlighting the high level of competition. After two intense days, the dcua team secured 1st place, demonstrating consistent performance, technical depth, and effective team collaboration. This victory further confirms that dcua is a strong competitor on the international stage and ready to tackle advanced practical challenges in cybersecurity.
read more ..dcua-school Women’s Team Wins CTF for Women
September 04, 2025
As part of the National Initiative by NKCC to promote the role of women in cybersecurity, a moderated workshop was held, including an interactive crisis communication skills exercise Brainstorming: “Cybersecurity with a Female Face” and the women’s cybersecurity competition CTF for Women. The team from Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) demonstrated exceptional preparation in a competitive environment and secured 1st place.
read more ..Summer Internships 2025
August 29, 2025
Laboratory staff participated in the second summer school’25 under the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet module project “European Experience for Enhancing Resilience of Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine”.
read more ..dcua-school Team Triumphs at MITIT CTF 2025
May 07, 2025
Congratulations to the dcua-school team on their victory at MITIT CTF 2025!
read more ..dcua-school Team Wins CTF at Cisco & Splunk Conference
November 22, 2024
Congratulations to the dcua-school team on their victory at the CTF held during the Cisco & Splunk Conference!
read more ..dcua-school Teams Win at Ukrainian-Japanese CTF 2024
October 02, 2024
On October 1–2, 2024, the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, together with the Ministry of Digital Transformation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan, organized the Ukrainian-Japanese Online Capture The Flag (CTF) Competition.
read more ..Fortinet Academic Partner Program
September 04, 2024
The University has joined the Fortinet Academic Partner Program!
read more ..Summer internships for teachers: Tech Summer for Educators AI Edition
August 29, 2024
The Lab’s employees took part in the SoftServe Academy Tech Summer for Educators course: AI Edition description.
read more ..Winning the Incident Response Days 3.0 CTF
August 29, 2024
Congratulations to the dcua-school teams on winning the Incident Response Days 3.0 CTF!
read more ..Participation in the ReSkill UA project
July 27, 2024
M. Ilin took part in the project ReSkill UA, a program for advanced training and retraining in cybersecurity. The ReSkill UA project is implemented by Coursera and Happy Monday with the support of the USAID Competitive Economy Program and the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine.
read more ..Courses Product IT Foundation for Education (updated)
May 17, 2024
The Laboratory’s employees took part in projects of cooperation between universities and the Product IT Foundation for Education and received licenses to teach the relevant cources.
read more ..International Victory - dcua Wins Space Heroes CTF 2024
April 15, 2024
Congratulations to the dcua team on their victory at the Space Heroes CTF 2024 — an international online cybersecurity competition held in a jeopardy format, covering a wide range of practical challenges in web security, cryptography, reverse engineering, vulnerability exploitation, and digital forensics.
read more ..CRDF Global grant for cybersecurity certifications
April 08, 2024
Ilin M. received a grant to pass the CompTIA PenTest+ certification within the CRDF Global Sponsorship for Cybersecurity Certifications program, program description.
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Course for teachers "Configuring and securing cloud environments"
March 13, 2024
The Laboratory’s staff took part in an internship for teachers from SoftServe company, the course “Configuring and Securing Cloud Environments”, which was held from February 15 to April 4, 2024.
read more ..dcua-school Team Wins OSINT Challenge 2024
February 10, 2024
Congratulations to the OmniSight team and its captain, Dmytro Kryhin, on their victory at OSINT Challenge 2024 — an open team-based OSINT competition organized by Security Expert Group and Global Information Space.
read more ..Summer internships for teachers
September 01, 2023
The Lab’s staff took part in the Tech Summer Bootcamp for Teachers program from SoftServe and the IT course for teachers from GlobalLogic Education.
read more ..Sikorsky CTF 2023
July 10, 2023
The Laboratory team held the Sikorsky CTF cyber security competition on July 1-2, 2023.
read more ..Training "Security of information technology supply chains"
May 26, 2023
The Laboratory’s employees took part in the CRDF Global training “Security of Information Technology Supply Chains”.
read more ..Winning the second all-Ukrainian cybersecurity competition UA30CTF
April 25, 2023
Congratulations to the dcua-school teams on winning the UA30CTF Online!
read more ..Victory at MITIT CTF 2023
April 24, 2023
Congratulations to the dcua-school team on winning the MITIT CTF 2023!
read more ..HTB Enterprise and Academy licenses
April 04, 2023
The University has gained access to the HackTheBox Enterprise and Academy platforms as part of the USAID project “Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine”.
read more ..EPAM Teachers Internship Winter 2023
March 16, 2023
Laboratory staff Iryna Stopochkina and Mykola ILIN completed internship program EPAM Teachers Internship 2023.
read more ..Certifications of Laboratory staff
March 08, 2023
The Laboratory offers the possibility to undergo certifications, in particular OffSec (Offensive Security).
read more ..Victory at UA30CTF
February 25, 2023
Congratulations to the team of information security club on the victory at UA30CTF!
read more ..Participation in the "Google Digital Tools for Education" program
December 24, 2022
Ilin M.I. took part in the “Google Digital Tools for Education” program from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Google Ukraine announcement.
read more ..Participation in the mentoring program of higher educational institutions in the CRDF Global project
October 06, 2022
Materials of the “Introduction to Malware Analysis” course are integrated into the curricula of Ukrainian universities within the CRDF Global program.
read more ..USAID Summer Courses "Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine"
September 21, 2022
Staff of the laboratory were trained in the courses of the 2022 Cybersecurity Summer Training Program of the USAID project “Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine”:
read more ..Program "Development and integration of IT course with elements of cybersecurity on the curriculum of Ukrainian universities"
December 22, 2021
Mykola Ilin and Dmytro Yakobchuk took part in the CRDF Global program “Development and integration of the IT course with elements of cybersecurity on the curriculum of Ukrainian universities” (Faculty and Curriculum Development program), developed a course “Introduction to Malware Analysis” [link].
read more ..EU4Digital "Improving Cyber Resilience in the Eastern Partnership Countries"
November 01, 2021
The staff of the Laboratory took part in the training Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) of the EU4Digital project: Improving cyber resilience in the Eastern Partnership countries.
read more ..USAID Summer Courses “Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine”
October 19, 2021
Laboratory staff completed 2021 Cybersecurity Summer Training Program of USAID “Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine”:
read more ..Information security clubs
October 06, 2020
The information security club takes place at the laboratory, we invite everyone to join.
Information security club dcua-school, tg @infosec_kpi_dev and www
Selected topics in information security, offensive and cyber security tg @infosec_kpi_sci and www.
Each Friday at 14:00, starting 9th of October 2020. For the time of quarantine - online streams, see announcement in Telegram.
Technical information security course (11.09.2020-01.06.2021)
September 09, 2020
The course “Introduction to Technical Information Security” takes place at the laboratory, each Friday at 14:00,11.09.2020-01.06.2021. We invite students, staff of Igor Sikorsky KPI and other educational institutions. Address - room 311, building 11. For the time of quarantine - online streams, see announcement in Telegram @infosec_kpi_chat.
read more ..Penetration testing hands-on
June 25, 2020
As a result of the team wins in several information security competitions, a pool of vouchers has been accumulated for Pro Labs Hack The Box.
read more ..Technical information security course (19.09.2019-01.06.2020)
September 01, 2019
The course “Introduction to Technical Information Security” takes place at the laboratory, each Wednesday and Friday at 16:00. We invite students, staff of Igor Sikorsky KPI and other educational institutions. Address - room 311, [building 11] (https://kpi.ua/k-11).
read more ..Participation in BsidesKharkov CTF 2019
June 08, 2019
On June 8, 2019 BsidesKharkov conferece feachured jeopardy CTF competition.
Students of the Laboratory participated and took:
1 place - Anatolii Romanchenko
2 place - Andrii Voitsekhovskyi
3 place - Oleksandr Honcharenko
Thanks BsidesKharkov for a great organization and other participants for a game.
Participation in Deloitte CTF 2018
December 04, 2018
On December 1, 2018, Deloitte’s Ukrainian office held jeopardy СTF competition.
Students of the Laboratory participated and took:
1 place - Oleksandr Honcharenko, 800 points
2 place - Anatolii Romanchenko, 725 points
3 place - Andrii Voitsekhovskyi, 600 points
Thanks Deloitte for a great organization and other participants for a game.
Participation in NoNameCon CTF 2018
May 23, 2018
On May 17-18, 2018 NoNameCon conference organized attack-defence CTF.
The students team of Andrii Voitsekhovskyi, Anatolii Romanchenko and Oleksandr Honcharenko took 2nd place.
Congratulations to the winners - dcua team. Thanks NoNameCon for organization and other participants for good game.