Nintendo's latest sale is 'made possible' by the tariff refunds it's hoarding29m ago Meta Announces Muse AI Agent for Personal Tasks and Organization30m ago Instagram now lets you add tagged photos to your profile grid30m ago AI agents are flooding public services with new requests36m ago Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,99937m ago An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are 'gambling with our lives'38m ago Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities47m ago Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware55m ago OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit1h ago 10 of the scariest AI villains in movie history1h ago Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal1h ago Agent Security Is Not AI Governance: Why Conflating The Two Is A Risk Enterprises Can't Afford1h ago Positron Valued at $5 Billion in New Funding as Demand for AI Chips Surges1h ago 7 Steps to Become a Forward Deployed Engineer in 20262h ago

Nintendo's latest sale is 'made possible' by the tariff refunds it's hoarding29m ago Meta Announces Muse AI Agent for Personal Tasks and Organization30m ago Instagram now lets you add tagged photos to your profile grid30m ago AI agents are flooding public services with new requests36m ago Apple’s first foldable is the iPhone Duo, and it costs $1,99937m ago An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are 'gambling with our lives'38m ago Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities47m ago Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware55m ago OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit1h ago 10 of the scariest AI villains in movie history1h ago Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal1h ago Agent Security Is Not AI Governance: Why Conflating The Two Is A Risk Enterprises Can't Afford1h ago Positron Valued at $5 Billion in New Funding as Demand for AI Chips Surges1h ago 7 Steps to Become a Forward Deployed Engineer in 20262h ago

Cybersecurity AI Research6 min reading time

AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes

Hacker NewsPublished 30 days ago

At BSidesSF 2026, the top Capture The Flag team used an autonomous AI agent running multiple models in parallel to solve all 52 challenges within minutes, fully automating the process. This marks a significant shift from the previous year when AI was only a helper tool. The development challenges traditional assumptions about cybersecurity skill assessments based on CTF competitions.

#autonomous-agents #bsidessf #capture-the-flag #cybersecurity-competitions

More in Cybersecurity

Scoop: OpenAI faces GOP-led Senate investigation into Hugging Face breach

Covered by 2 sources7h ago

Cybersecurity6 min read

Anthropic Discloses Fourth AI Hacking Incident Involving Claude Opus 4.6

Covered by 2 sources8h ago

Cybersecurity5 min read

Every AI Incident Has Two Timelines. We Default To One

Forbes4h ago