I just obtained C-AgAIPen Certification
When I was at DefCon 34 last week, in Las Vegas, I got a proposal to obtain this Certified Agentic AI Pentester status. So, after some gruesome working exam hours, I did it. And I’m proud of it. 🙂 Matei Ferseta 🍁– 11th-grade student at Colegiul Național de Informatică “Tudor Vianu” – President of Vianu […]
Bronze Medal at National Digital Innovation and Creation Olympiad, 33rd edition, Focsani + interesting fact
This week, me and my brother, Stefan Ferseta, won the Bronze Medal at one of the oldest IT Olympiads, national level: Digital Innovation and Creation Olympiad. One cool fact. To support our project, we printed several QR codes and stick them in Focsani city and in the college that hosted the event. In less than […]
1st place Binary Track at Security Summer School, Bucharest Polytechnic University
Saturday, July 25 2026, together with my friend and colleague George Lupu (Vianu Cybersecurity Club) we made a team that won 1st place at Binary Track at Bucharest Polytechnic University Security Summer School. Here is the final pic with all the participants. Can you see me in that crowd? 🙂 Matei Ferseta 🍁– 11th-grade student […]
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 🍁– 11th-grade student at Colegiul Național de Informatică “Tudor Vianu” – President of Vianu Cybersecurity Club – Trainer at Atlantykron – Volunteer at Astrofest, Hallo […]
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 🍁– 11th-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 🍁– 11th-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 […]
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 🍁– 11th-grade student at Colegiul Național de Informatică “Tudor Vianu” – President […]