Yesterday we organized VianuCTF 2025. 430 participants worldwide, 73 on-site

VianuCTF 2025: A Global Cybersecurity Success! The 3rd edition of VianuCTF took place yesterday, Deember 16, 2025, from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM–seven hours of intense, non-stop work and high-level problem solving. Organized by the Vianu Cybersecurity Club (President: Matei Ferseta), this year’s event reached new heights. Attendance & Reach We had a total of […]

We’re organizing VianuCTF 2025. Tuesday, December 16th. Are you in?

@everyone SecurITy Challenge – VianuCTF 2025 is coming! 🔐💻 Are you into hacking, puzzles, or breaking things just to figure out how they work? Join *SecurITy Challenge – VianuCTF 2025, a cybersecurity competition for students organized by *“Tudor Vianu” National College of Computer Science and the Vianu Cybersecurity Club in Bucharest, Romania. You’ll face Jeopardy-style […]

10th place at Null CTF 2025

Great news. We achieved a fantastic result at Null CTF 2025! Our team (vianu_hack) – Victor-Andrei Trandafir, Robert-Andrei Harabagiu, Tudor Furtuna, Alexandru Hossu and myself, Matei Ferșeta – secured a spot in the Top 10. The competition was really tough. It required intense focus, quick thinking, and seamless teamwork. Every challenge pushed us to think […]

Our team, vianu_hack, ranked #7 at Defence Intelligence of Ukraine National & Hackenproof CTF

Two weeks ago, just after finishing the European Cyber Week CTF, we started this online CTF. Really interesting. My team (vianu_hack) ranked number 7. Honored to be part of it. Matei Ferseta– 11th-grade student at Colegiul Național de Informatică “Tudor Vianu” – President of Vianu Cybersecurity Club – Trainer at Atlantykron – Volunteer at Astrofest, […]

13th, 5th, 8th and 1st place at DefCamp 2025 competitions

What an awesome event! At the main competition we were 18 finalist teams. Some were national teams from Poland, Slovakia, Italy, Finland, some were adults teams from Google, a top Korean team,,, Out of all the them, 2 teams had members from our Vianu Cybersecurity Club. 🙂 So proud. My team, vianub1tz: Hacking Village at […]

My gaming development interview in Scena9

Last month I was at Amber Studios, one of the largest game developer in Romania with my colleagues. It was an event during Bucharest Gaming Week, and for us it was useful to better understand potential career choices. Really nice. I had the nice surprise to be interviewed for Scena9, a cool independent online journalism […]

Visiting GoTech World

Yesterday I visited GoTech World, at Romexpo, Bucharest. I spoke with various companies to sponsor our events from November and December (Vianu CTF and Vianu Sci Tech Evo Fest). I had the nice surprise to get some positive answers. So, I’ll tell you more later on. Here I was at the Google stand, talking with […]

7th Place at CTF@AC Finals, Timisoara, Romania

Thursday, Nov 6th 2025 I left Bucharest by night train towards Timisoara. I participated solo in a team contest. Awesome experience. Meeting a lot of old friends and new friends. Thanks, guys. Looking forward for the next time! I love cybersecurity! Scoreboard Matei Ferseta– 11th-grade student at Colegiul Național de Informatică “Tudor Vianu” – President […]