🙈 Fixed Mistake (Score: 100 / Solves: 50)

Description

You know how it is when you promote CTF, write some articles and by mistake put some real flags to into? Well... our team makes mistakes too.

Flag

1753c{s0m3_r4nd0m_t3xt}

Summary

• Search the 1753 CTF organizers's blog
• Past blog post by Wayback Machine

Initial Analysis

According to the description, it seems like a situation where someone accidentally published a post, maybe blog, reddit or facebook, etc..., containing the flag. It is likely one of the organizers of the 1753 CTF. Let's search on Google.

Solution

I found the following HackerNoon blog:

The author of this article is @lukaszwronski.

There is a fake flag, invalid flag:

Using the Wayback Machine, I see if there is a past articles.

• Wayback Machine Link

The article is not displayed, but there is a flag in the HTML that is different from the fake flag. I submitted the flag, passed this challenge.