The Kharza

The Kharza are a dangerous, organized cybercrime syndicate. Unlike the Golden Talon, they're disciplined and secretive. Defeating them requires deeper investigation.

Reverse the String

EasyCoding

A Kharza transmission was intercepted but arrived completely backwards. Decode it.

ASCII Puzzle

EasyCoding

A seized Kharza server contained a file of nothing but numbers. Intelligence believes it's a message in disguise.

Index Puzzle

MediumCoding

A recovered data dump looks like random noise. Analysts think only certain characters matter.

Scrambled String

HardCoding

A courier was caught with a number sequence. The values appear to have been shifted before sending.

Multi-Step Final Puzzle

HardCoding

A high-priority Kharza order was recovered, but it's been padded with junk data. Strip the noise and read what's underneath.

Rookie Mistake

EasyCrypto

A junior Kharza operative encrypted a message using a method so outdated it's almost insulting. Crack it.

Numbers Everywhere

EasyCrypto

An intercepted message has been encoded twice over. Work through it one layer at a time.

Hidden Key

MediumCrypto

A Kharza message was encrypted using a key hidden somewhere public. Find the key, break the cipher.

Emails

MediumCrypto

A compromised Kharza inbox contains messages that have been wrapped in two layers of encoding. Unpack them in order.

Password Checking

HardCrypto

A Kharza terminal was left running during a raid. The password is gone but its hash remains.

The Hidden Cookie

MediumWeb

The Kharza's public-facing site briefly stores something when it loads. It won't be there long.

Robots.txt Discovery

MediumWeb

The Kharza's site was built fast and sloppy. Something got listed that was never meant to be found.

Background URL

MediumWeb

The site looks clean. Something in the styling code says otherwise.

Suspicious Image

MediumOSINT

A photo posted to a Kharza-linked forum looks unremarkable. Look past the image itself.

URL Guessing

MediumWeb

The Kharza's content server cycles through page IDs automatically. One of them wasn't meant to be public.

The Suspicious ZIP

EasyForensics

A compressed archive was recovered from a seized drive. Something is buried inside it.

Corrupted Image

EasyForensics

A recovered file won't open. The data looks intact but something about the file itself is wrong.

The Log File

MediumForensics

Server logs were exported before a Kharza drive was wiped. Buried in the encoded output is a reference to somewhere else.

Steganography Lite

MediumForensics

An image passed between three Kharza cells before it was intercepted. Give it a closer look.

File Signature

HardForensics

A file was deliberately broken before it was couriered. Fix it and see what they were hiding.