Here’s How To Hack Google For Sport And Money In 2023


Hacking Google as a way to make money is a sad reality for many cybercriminals. Be that by gaming SEO to promote malicious links in search engine results or gaining unauthorized access to Google accounts in order to leverage the undoubted power that control over an email account brings with. Of course, there’s a price to be paid for such nefarious activity if law enforcement track the perpetrators down. But what if told you there was a way to hack Google that won’t get you sent to prison but could still make you money, and lots of it? What if I told you that hacking Google could be the next big eSports game?

Register for the Google CTF for your chance to qualify for Hackceler8

In a May 26 posting to the Google security blog, Google’s technical program manager, Vincent Winstead, challenged hackers of all capabilities to test their skill, and possibly learn some new ones, by registering for a Google capture the flag (CTF) competition which is scheduled to start June 23.

The Google CTF will consist of a bunch of different challenges, presented as computer security puzzles to be solved using hacking skills such as reverse-engineering, using memory corruption to find exploits, and more. Your CTF hacking team will be rewarded with points for each challenge that is successfully completed, and by doing so move up the hacker ranks. And, to quote the late Sir Bruce Forsyth from the British game show Play Your Cards Right, “What do points make? Prizes!”

The winning hackers will qualify for Google Hackceler8 in Tokyo

Actually, in the world of Google CTF points make a chance to gain entry to Hackceler8 in Tokyo’s later this year. “The top 8 teams will qualify for our Hackceler8 competition,” Winstead says, “our experimental esport-style hacking game, custom-made to mix CTF and speedrunning.” In other words, an against-the-clock CTF which has been ramped up in the difficulty levels to challenge the hacking teams. Points also, in the case of Hackceler8, make money: there’s a prize pot of more than $32,000 up for grabs. “Whether you’re a seasoned CTF player or just curious about…

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