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Securing a real environment against hackers is challenging because of the huge surface area of different systems, technologies and platforms you need to understand to protect. In this challenge you can pit your wits against a wide range of different attacks, vulnerabilities and forensic artifacts that span everything from wireless infrastructure to web servers. You will face cyber criminals methods of obfuscated command and control, attempts to shred evidence and configuration failures that leave services open to attack. This challenge has a range of questions at different difficulty levels making it accessible to both beginners and more experienced players.
To begin, please click the "Attempt quiz now" button. The quiz is spread across five pages, and all questions are independent of each other. Each page has a "Next" button to take you to the next page, and there is also a "Quiz navigation" box that allows you to jump forward or back to any question. To officially submit your answers and finish the quiz, you must go to the very last page (which shows a summary of how you answered each question) and click the "Submit all and finish" button. You will then be shown your score.
Before you begin, please download and install Wireshark (1.4.6 or later), and then download the following ZIP file (containing 10 files) for analysis:
Cyber Quest: Winter 2025 Resources
Registration will be available from November 19, 2025 until January 15, 2026. The quiz will be available from November 23, 2025 until January 15, 2026. Registered users will each have three attempts to take the quiz. For each of your three attempts, you will have 24 hours from the time you begin the quiz to complete it, and you may only submit your answers once per attempt. For each attempt, you must submit the answers within 24 hours of when you start, or by 11:59pm PST on January 15, 2026 (whichever comes first). If you still have the quiz open in your browser at closing time, or if you leave the quiz and don't come back to submit, it will automatically submit whatever answers you have entered so far. If you stay on the same page for more than four hours, your session may time out. Your answers on each page will be automatically saved every five minutes, and when you click the Next button at the bottom of each page. You may leave and come back, but you must come back to finish before time expires or the quiz closes!
Rankings will be determined based on who achieves the highest score in the shortest amount of time. In the event of a tie score, the shortest time is the winner. Your highest score among your three attempts will be counted as your final score. The time is calculated based on when you first open the quiz and when you submit your final answers; the timer DOES NOT stop if you leave and come back! For example, if you start the quiz at 2:00pm, work on it for an hour, then come back the next day at 1:00pm and submit your final answers at 1:05pm, your time would be 23:05:00.
Any user found to have registered for more than one account, or users found to have shared answers, will be disqualified and ineligible for any camp invitations, awards, prizes, scholarships or other opportunities presented as a result of Cyber Quests.
Are you ready for the challenge? Take the Cyber Quest challenge to compete for an invitation to one of the 2026 USCC Cyber Camps, which are scheduled throughout the summer around the country. Please visit the U.S. Cyber Challenge Website for details and locations. Additional awards, prizes and scholarships may become available. While all are welcome to participate in the competition, camp invitations, awards, prizes and scholarships are available to U.S. residents only at this time.
Questions about the challenge should be directed to support@cyberquests.org. However, please keep in mind that we will not give answers to the quiz itself.
Good Luck!