COMPETITIVE CYBERSECURITY · INDIA

KN1GHTS

SECUREEXPLOITDEFEND

COMPETITIVE CYBERSECURITY · INDIACONTACT US

MORE THAN A CTF
IT'S A MINDSET.

  • LEARN
  • PRACTICE
  • COMPETE
  • BECOME A KNIGHT

Competitive cybersecurity. Offensive research. CTFs.

KN1GHTS COLLECTIVEINDIA / ONLINE
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01 / LATEST FROM KN1GHTS

PROGRESS
IN PUBLIC.

Competition results, team updates, and work worth sharing.

CTF RESULT / FIELD REPORT

ExploitX — Into The Void 2.0

1st among 120+ teams in the qualification round, then 1st among 40 teams in the finals. The public announcement says the final margin was 28 points over 2nd place.

View public result
02 / WHAT DRIVES US

PRESSURE REVEALS
THE PATTERN.

CURIOSITY FINDS
THE BREAK.

A team forged through competition, focused on understanding how systems fail—and how to make them stronger.

03 / HOW WE WORK

COMPETE.
RESEARCH.
BUILD.

01COMPETE

CTFs across web, pwn, crypto, forensics, and OSINT.

02RESEARCH

Technical investigation, offensive experiments, and clear field notes.

03BUILD

Purposeful tools and challenge infrastructure for the security community.

04 / SELECTED RESULTS

PROOF,
NOT PROMISES.

Publicly shared competition results from the KN1GHTS team.

01 / #1

ExploitX — Into The Void 2.0

1st among 120+ teams in the qualification round, then 1st among 40 teams in the finals. The public announcement says the final margin was 28 points over 2nd place.

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02 / #1

BLACKBOX 2026

1st Place at a story-driven cybersecurity and web engineering challenge organized by the CodeChef VIT Chennai Chapter at VIT Chennai.

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05 / TECHNICAL WRITEUPS

NOTES FROM
THE BREACH.

Methods, lessons, and challenge solutions from the team.

EDITORIAL / IN REVIEWTHE FIRST
DISPATCH IS
IN REVIEW.Published writeups will appear here.
06 / OPEN SOURCE

TOOLS FOR
THE NEXT
CHALLENGE.

Small, useful tools built to make security work more effective.

GITHUB / KN1GHTS-ORGExplore the
organization

New projects will be featured here as they are published.

07 / THE TEAM

BUILT IN
THE ARENA.

Competitors, researchers, and builders, working the problem together.

0xRAVEN, KN1GHTS team memberOPERATOR / 01

0xRAVEN

PWN / CAPTAIN

Heap · Kernel · ROP
SPECTRE, KN1GHTS team memberOPERATOR / 02

SPECTRE

REVERSE

Firmware · VM · Mobile
NULLBYTE, KN1GHTS team memberOPERATOR / 03

NULLBYTE

WEB / CLOUD

Browser · OAuth · K8s
CIPHER, KN1GHTS team memberOPERATOR / 04

CIPHER

CRYPTO

Lattices · ECC · ZKP
08 / FROM THE FIELD

THINGS
WORTH
SHARING.

Research notes, lessons learned, and ideas the team wants to leave better documented.

JOURNAL / 00Notes from the field are being prepared.

Published KN1GHTS work will appear here after editorial review.

09 / UPCOMING EVENTS

MEET US
IN THE FIELD.

Competitions, sessions, and public appearances.

EVENTS / 00No upcoming events are published.
VIEW ALL EVENTS
10 / IN-HOUSE WEEKLY

TRY THE
CHALLENGE.

A fresh security problem for the community.

WEEKLY / STANDBY

Next challenge incoming.

The next in-house brief will appear here after it is published.

TRY THE CHALLENGE
11 / FIELD NOTES

EXPLORE
THE BLOG.

Research, writeups, and lessons from the arena.

BLOG / 00The first field note is being prepared.
EXPLORE THE BLOG
12 / RECRUITMENT STATUS

THE GATE
IS CLOSED.
FOR NOW.

KN1GHTS is not currently accepting applications. Follow the team’s public updates for the next recruitment campaign.

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KN1GHTS

SECUREEXPLOITDEFEND

OPEN CHANNEL

Have a challenge, event, or research idea worth pursuing?

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14 / CONTACT US

LET'S
CONNECT.

A challenge, a collaboration, or a question. Leave us a message.