Positive Technologies Wraps Up Third Positive Hack Camp with 81 Students from 20 Countries

Positive Technologies has concluded the third edition of Positive Hack Camp, its annual international cybersecurity and white hacking camp held in Moscow. More than 80 beginning specialists from 20 countries participated in the two-week intensive program organized by Positive Education with support from the Ministry of Digital Development of Russia.

Selection and Participants

Applications opened in February, attracting over 800 submissions from students worldwide. After interviews assessing skills and motivation, 81 participants from countries including Egypt, India, Indonesia, China, Malaysia, and other nations across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America received invitations. All participants covered their own travel costs.

Program Goals

The camp seeks to train professionals who can strengthen cyber resilience and digital sovereignty in their home countries. It also aims to unite the international white hacker community. Success stories from prior years include three 2025 participants from Algeria who joined Deeptech Innovation Hub at the national research center CERIST and now contribute to Algeria’s cybersecurity initiatives.

Training Curriculum

Classes ran from early morning until evening throughout late July. Topics included modeling attacks on IT infrastructure, analyzing network traffic protection, privilege escalation techniques in web applications, operating system security fundamentals, and reverse engineering of complex devices. Experts such as Alexander Popov, Egor Tishin, Dmitry Sokolov, and Ksenia Naumova led sessions, alongside Lebanese white hackers Hussein Daher and Mohammed Daher, who have collectively discovered over 2,000 vulnerabilities on major bug bounty platforms.

In total, instructors delivered 30 practical sessions based on real attack scenarios. Students completed a final examination to consolidate their skills.

Cultural Activities

Evenings and weekends featured a screening of the film “How to Get Access to Everything: Reverse Engineering,” a master class on making pelmeni, a nighttime cruise on the Moscow River, and a Counter-Strike tournament.

Results

On August 7, all participants successfully passed the exam and received diplomas. Organizers expressed confidence that the training will support the students’ future careers in protecting digital infrastructure worldwide.