Europe hosts first in-orbit satellite cybersecurity competition

D-Orbit, a leader in orbital logistics, together with mhackeroni, a prominent ethical hacking team, concluded CTRLSpace CTF, Europe's first cybersecurity competition using an operational spacecraft as the testbed. The event, supported by ESA's Security Cyber Centre of Excellence and Security Office, culminated at ESA ESTEC in the Netherlands, where five teams participated in live scenarios aboard the ION Satellite Carrier.

The competition challenged finalists to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in actual spacecraft systems, including interpreting real telemetry data, sending command sequences, and interacting with onboard software to uncover potential security weaknesses. 559 teams took part in the qualifiers, and 660 co

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