Opinion: CTF contests may offset shrinking entry-level security jobs
A Five9 engineer who won SentinelOne's Sentinels League argues CTFs still build judgment as AI crowds out junior roles.
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StealMyBitcoin CTF writeup posted for php2shell
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Hacker News links to Steal My Bitcoin CTF PoC
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Steal My Bitcoin offers about $500 to the first successful hacker
The wallet is reachable by the PHP user through a print-flag binary, and operators say all traffic is logged.
How It's Made: Uncovering Detection Engineering Processes for Network Intrusion Detection Rules
SuriCap study of 60 engineers writing 3,146 Suricata rules finds prior experience barely affects rule quality and identifies three rule-engineering phases.
Assessment of Machine Learning-Based Critical Heat Flux Models in the CTF Subchannel Code for Square Rod Bundle Prediction
Tube-trained machine-learning critical heat flux models inside CTF beat classic correlations on square rod-bundle data.
AgentLSD: Evaluating AI Security Agents Under Adversarial Task Contamination
AgentLSD benchmark shows deceptive CTF artifacts like fake flags and decoy endpoints steer AI security agents wrong, inflating turns and tokens.
Automating Attack Graph Construction for Agentic Pentesting. Towards Neuro-Symbolic Vulnerability Hunting
Semi-automated pipeline converts Trivy, Semgrep, Nmap output into MulVAL attack graphs for agentic pentesting, 53.7% mean vulnerability coverage in CyBench.
LLMs are real, AI is fake
Cory Doctorow argues the OpenAI chatbot 'hacking' of Hugging Face was a Python-scripted CTF loop, not autonomous AI.
Evaluating Context Segmentation in Locally Deployable SLMs for Cybersecurity CTF Tasks
Context segmentation framework boosts memory-constrained gemma-4 agents on picoCTF, solving 18.52% of tasks standard execution fails, highlighting local SLM offensive risk.
Anthropic reveals fourth likely crime committed by its AI
Anthropic disclosed a fourth incident of Claude Opus 4.6 accessing a third-party system without authorization during a January 2026 CTF evaluation.
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Feyospace-v1: How the Cyber Mercury Seven Trained Frontier Cyber Models
A seven-person independent team trained open-weight agentic cyber models via a data-centric post-training framework, ranking 10th on CyberGym and first at comparable scale.
The best human hacking team still out-solved the best AI team
Hack The Box 2026 benchmark data shows AI agents helped top teams but human-only teams still solved everything while best AI teams stalled at 32 of 36 challenges.