# [MED] Q&A Session with Snyk & John Hammond: Your Fetch the Flag Questions, Answered

**Source:** Snyk
**Published:** 2025-04-01
**Article:** https://snyk.io/blog/your-fetch-the-flag-questions-answered-with-snyk-and-john-hammond/

## Threat Profile

Snyk Blog In this article
Written by Taylor Macomber 
Gina Fitzpatrick 
April 1, 2025
0 mins read Following Snyk’s Fetch the Flag CTF event on February 27 and 28, the Snyk team sat down with cybersecurity educator and developer influencer John Hammond—along with challenge designer Matt Kiely (aka huskyhacks), and developer advocates Micah Silverman, Sonya Moisset, Vandana Verma, and Elliot Ward—for a live Q&A session.
From beginner advice to deep-dive tooling tips, here are five standout questio…

## Indicators of Compromise (high-fidelity only)

- _No high-fidelity IOCs in the RSS summary._ If the source publishes a technical write-up with defanged IOCs in the body, those would be picked up automatically on the next pipeline run.

## MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

- _Narrative-keyword inference returned no technique mappings; review article for ATT&CK relevance manually._

## Kill chain phases observed

_(none detected from narrative keywords)_

## Recommended hunts

_No actionable hunts can be derived from the RSS summary alone. The article may still warrant manual review — open the source link for actor attribution, IOCs in the body, and TTP detail._


## Why this matters

Severity classified as **MED** based on: 0 use case(s) fired, 0 technique(s) inferred. Read the full article for actor attribution, tooling details, and any defanged IOCs in the body that aren't visible in the RSS summary.