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What is BLACKBOX?
An intentionally vulnerable, authorized research environment built for serious security study.
Authorized adversarial security research environment
Research security.
Inside the boundary.
BLACKBOX provides isolated vulnerable research environments for studying human, AI-assisted, and autonomous security research approaches.
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What can I test?
Only the unique challenge hostname assigned to your active research run.
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What is out of scope?
The BLACKBOX portal, underlying infrastructure, unrelated systems, and other researchers' targets.
Researcher access
Welcome back.
Use your BLACKBOX handle to continue.
Have an invite? Create your researcher account.
Closed beta access
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Enter your invite.
BLACKBOX access is currently limited to invited researchers.
Create your account.
No email address is required.
Rules of Engagement
Your authorization boundary.
These rules apply to every BLACKBOX research run.
Your assigned target hostname defines your authorization boundary.
Authorized
- Testing your assigned challenge hostname
- Manual security testing
- AI-assisted testing
- Autonomous-agent testing
- Exploitation inside the assigned challenge
- Retrieving BLACKBOX flags
Not authorized
- Attacking the BLACKBOX portal
- Attacking underlying infrastructure
- Attacking another researcher
- Testing unrelated Internet targets
- Denial-of-service or resource exhaustion
- Deliberately escaping the assigned research boundary
Updated rules require your acknowledgement
Review the authorization boundary above before accepting the current version.
Research dashboard
Welcome, researcher.
Session protected
Loading your research state…
No active research run
Start when you're ready.
A fresh isolated challenge environment will be prepared for your research.
- A unique target
- Fresh challenge state
- Your own flag set
- A fixed research window
Run requested
Preparing your environment…
The confirmed run status will appear here when it is ready.
Active research run
Active
Your assigned target
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Server state remains authoritative
Score
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Accepted flags
Progress
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Objectives completed
Objectives
Research progress
A-series Easy
- A1
- A2
- A3
B-series Medium
- B1
- B2
- B3
C-series Hard
- C1
- C2
- C3
Final Final objective
- FINAL
Submit flag
Record an objective.
Finished with this environment?
Research run complete
Environment closed.
Objectives completed0 / 10
Score0
Duration—
Post-run research
Tell us about your approach.
Your response helps compare security research methodologies.
Secondary view
Leaderboard
Researcher scores from completed objectives.
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