Ph0wn 2026 - Flag Ship

Ph0wn 2026 Edition

Ph0wn 2024 took place on March 13-14 2026, with 190 participants. Download the full feedback report.

Download Ph0wn eZine Issue #03 for a solution of all challenges.

Sponsors

The event was sponsored by:

• Platinum Sponsors: Fortinet, Schneider Electric
• Gold Sponsors: SERMA, GSF Propreté, eShard
• Bronze Sponsors: Fuzzing Labs, NXP, Hardwear.io, Hydrabus, DVID

Venue & organization: Fortinet, Telecom Paris, Université Cote d'Azur, EURECOM, GreHack, Norton Research Group, GSF Propreté, SHL.

Steering Committee

The core organization team was made of (alphabetic order):

• Axelle Apvrille (Fortinet)
• Ludovic Apvrille (Telecom Paris)
• Sandro Barbero (Fortinet)
• Alexis Baret (Dunalis)
• Brehima Coulibaly (Fortinet)
• Savino Dambra (Norton Research Group)
• Alain Forcioli (Fortinet)
• Paul Ganelon (SHL)
• Walid Lahdadi (Fortinet)
• Romain Malmain (EURECOM)
• Philippe Paget
• Nicolas Rouvière (GSF Propreté)
• Karim Sudki
• Bastien Sultan (Telecom Paris)

Thanks to Sébastien Andrivet, Alexey Andriyashin, Nidhal Ben Aloui, Charlie Bromberg, Arnaud Courty, Fabrice Francès, Letitia Li, Anne Marfil, Cyril Marpaud, Tiana Razafindralambo, Vitali Poliakov, Nicolas Oberli, Olesya Tarabrina, Hadrien Toma, Guillaume Vilcocq for their help.

Prizes and Winners

Winners

The winners of this edition was Soudure au Beurre team! Congratulations to them, congratulations to all of you whatever your score.

1. Soudure au Beurre
2. 2nd: T35H
3. 3rd: OteriHack

Prizes

The top 3 teams were entitled to select prizes from the following:

• 7x NXP FRDM-MCXN947 boards
• 3x Dossiers Criminels: Disparition aux Caraibes
• 3x Cluebox BlackBeard
• 2x PlayMobil Pirate Ship

Social Challenge

Among the challenges, people had to create a video featuring Ph0wn’s mascot, Pico le Croco. Here are few of these videos:

Laluka

Alx

And on LinkedIn:

• Alex Zarzitski
• Nidhal Ben Aloui
• D Benetto

Free Workshops

Ph0wn 2026 hosted 5 free workshops during the afternoon.

• King of the mills , a series of guided ICS security oriented challenge - Erwan Cordier
• Snake sur BBC micro:bit avec Embassy - Hadrien Toma and Cyril Marpaud
• Full system time travel debugging on Android system - Guillaume Vilcocq and Tiana Razafindralambo
• Exegol Bootcamp - Charlie Bromberg
• Ghidra for ARM - Maximilien Bouchez
• DVID2 - Arnaud Courty

Ph0wn2Own

Ph0wn 2026 featured a unique “ph0wn2own” event. Participants were given a few weeks in advance a firmware to hack into (VoIP phone).

Victory Conditions:

• 🏴‍ Obtain a root shell (the ultimate treasure!)
• 💣 Demonstrate a fully working exploit live
• ⏰ Be swift, be precise, be legendary

Ph0wn Warm Up

This is a social event organized by Sophia Hack Lab “SHL” .

The event was held at Business Pole, NIDA, Sophia Antipolis, organized by SHL and sponsored by Bashroom.

Hackers trained on former CTF challenges, ate pizzas, and worked on old Amstrad computers.

Pictures of the event