They called it an Atomic Code Destabilization. A glitch at the edge of reality, where software meets physics.
Synack Corp’s core network team was patching a deprecated warning stackdump when something broke. Not just the code, not just the config, but reality itself. An unvalidated paging problem deep in the control plane fractured space-time and pulled the team into a software defined shadow realm created by the network.
Firewalls have locked down. Routing tables rewrite themselves every few seconds. SD-WAN links phase in and out like ghosts. Kubernetes nodes are spawning nightmares along ingress routes and there are rogue containers running unknown processes. Honeypots are no longer traps, they’re alive.
That’s where you come in.
Contracted by an off-the-books team of incident responders, you’re being dropped into the wreckage. Your objective: restore control, neutralize the anomalies, and bring the Synack team home.
Every checkpoint in this CTF is a corrupted piece of the Synack architecture. This includes firewalls, routers, VPNs, container clusters and more. The Atomic Code Destabilization has twisted everything. You’ll need to exploit vulnerabilities, manipulate traffic, exploit routing protocols, and fight your way through zero-trust systems that trust no one, not even you.
Your first task is to find the last remaining switch and plug in.
Each challenge unlocks a briefing:
- A short primer on the theory behind what’s broken.
- A guided walkthrough showing how each device used to work.
- Clues and context. Tiny fragments of the Synack team’s logs, configs, voices.
