- Blue Hens, University of Delaware, USA (Patrick Cronin, Charles Gouert, Fateme Hosseini; Faculty advisors: Chengmo Yang, Nektarios Tsoutsos)
- UMBC Secrets Lab, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA, (Trevor Kroeger, Hasib-Al-Rashid, Md Toufiq Hasan Ani; Faculty advisor: Naghmeh Karimi)
- Texas A&M Hardware Defense, Texas A&M University, (Michael Hall, Josh Zschiesche, Mahesh Naidu, Ryan Vrecenar; Faculty advisors: Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Stavros Kalafatis)
- The Maple Cookie Army, INSA CVL, France (Eléonore Carpentier, Corentin Thomasset; Faculty advisor: Jeremy Briffaut)
- ANSSI, ANSSI & Grenoble-INP, France (Timothy Claeys, Boris Simunovic, Thomas Trouchkine; Faculty advisor: David Elbaze)
- TheWhiteVan, NTUA & UNIPI, Greece (Angelos Zografos, Michail Vakis, Alexandros Stoubis; Faculty advisor: Christos Dimas)
- Inspira, Cochin University of Science and Technology, India (Gisha C. G., Akhil P.; Faculty advisor: Bijoy A. Jose)
- SEAL, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India (Durba Chatterjee, Siddhartha Chowdhury, Rajat Sadhukhan, Akashdeep Saha; Faculty advisor: Debdeep Mukhopadhyay)
- IoTeam, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (Tushar Gupta, Madhukant, Pratyush Varshney, Nilesh Vasita; Faculty advisor: Indranil Saha)