35th place at Grey Cat The Flag, Singapore
This weekend our team (vianu_hack) reached 35th place out of 418 at one of the greatest CTF competition in Singapore: Grey Cat The Flag 24 hours. Great team. Matei Ferseta 🍁– 12th-grade student at Colegiul Național de Informatică “Tudor Vianu” – President of Vianu Cybersecurity Club – Trainer at Atlantykron – Volunteer at Astrofest, Hallo […]
Thursday, on May 28, I was guest at iTalks podcast
Can’t wait to see it live. Alin Nita (the host) and myself we discussed aprox 40 minutes about cybersecurity, our club, our intentions to help Romania become a force in cybersecurity. I am honored to be invited to such great show: https://www.youtube.com/@italksshow Matei Ferseta 🍁– 12th-grade student at Colegiul Național de Informatică “Tudor Vianu” – […]
We qualified for the national level at Infoeducatie Olympiad with Lab Vianu Hack Educational Platform!
Our purpose with https://lab.vianuhack.club is to help Romanian teens increase their proficiency in cybersecurity. This way, our country will be stronger. So far, we qualified at Infoeducatie Olympiad for the national level with this project. During this summer we’ll go to Focsani, to present it. Until then, we hope to have some time to improve […]
Trainer at Cyb3r-Q Stack 2026
Matei Ferseta 🍁– 12th-grade student at Colegiul Național de Informatică “Tudor Vianu” – President of Vianu Cybersecurity Club – Trainer at Atlantykron – Volunteer at Astrofest, Hallo Fest, Sci-Fi Fest, Poli Fest – Pseudo-Owner of Bacon, my cat. More about me here. mapleleaf.ro
1st Place at Uni vs Threats Timisoara, Juniors & 2nd place at all ages competition
Learning from the Best: Reflections on Uni vs. Threats 26 Finals The second edition of Uni vs. Threats 26, hosted by the West University of Timișoara (Faculty of Informatics), has just come to a close, and I’m still processing everything that happened over the last 48 hours. It was an incredible experience to be surrounded […]
2nd place at Electron 2026, Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti
During this weekend, Vianu Hack team won second place in Electron 2026. Congratulations to team #1, Dacia Team from Timisoara. Awesome presentation 🙂 Thank you Orange Romania, Facultatea de Electronica UPB, Cyber-Edu, Infineon, Liga Studentilor Electronisti for supporting this event. Matei Ferseta 🍁– 12th-grade student at Colegiul Național de Informatică “Tudor Vianu” – President of […]
We Became Vice-Champions at HackDay France 2026
I still can’t fully describe what those 24 hours felt like. Together with my teammates – Patrick Șuster, Filip Anghel, Vlad Hărdălău, and Alexandru Docea – we competed in the international cybersecurity final of HackDay.fr 2026, organized by ESIEE Paris. And we finished 2nd place in the world. It didn’t start that way. We came […]
Yesterday, in prime time, we were LIVE at Razvan si Dani, at Antena 1 TV
Yesterday morning, at CNI Tudor Vianu, in the classroom where we keep the Vianu Cybersecurity Club, we were interviewd live by Antena 1 TV during Razvan si Dani show. We discussed about our activities, about https://lab.vianuhack.club – our project to raise the cyber-alphabetization in Romania, about our dreams, about our prize obtained at Samsung Solve […]
Qualified in Final of UNbreakable Romania 2026
Together with my awesome team vianu_hack (George Lupu and Tudor Prisecaru) we managed to qualify at the Unbreakable Final. This will take place on March 27, 2026. Thank you, ING HUBS for supporting our club to achieve such great results 🙂 Matei Ferseta 🍁– 12th-grade student at Colegiul Național de Informatică “Tudor Vianu” – President […]
2nd place at BSides Bucharest 2026 CTF – Hack in Bloom
Yesterday, March 4, 2026, I ended up on second place at BSides Bucharest 2026 CTF – Hack in Bloom. And I won a great pair of headphones 🙂 Awesome event, awesome friends. Thank you. Matei Ferseta 🍁– 12th-grade student at Colegiul Național de Informatică “Tudor Vianu” – President of Vianu Cybersecurity Club – Trainer at […]