AUTOCRYPT says Red Team finished first in DEF CON 34 car hacking contest

By Atlas Watchline Staff · Corporate · August 11, 2026

AUTOCRYPT said its Red Team finished first in the Car Hacking Village CTF at DEF CON 34 in Las Vegas after completing all challenges in 25 hours.

AUTOCRYPT said its Red Team finished first in the Car Hacking Village CTF at DEF CON 34 in Las Vegas, completing all challenges in 25 hours of a 50-hour competition and beating 83 teams.

The company said the result was its first championship in the contest since it began participating in 2022. AUTOCRYPT also said the win followed a third-place finish last year.

According to AUTOCRYPT, the competition has been held at DEF CON since 2015 and is an international automotive cybersecurity hacking event. The company said the challenges involved electronic control units, embedded boards and actual vehicles.

AUTOCRYPT said its researchers used a proprietary AI-powered security analysis platform with multiple AI agents, along with human review and judgment, to identify vulnerabilities and attack vectors. The company said that approach helped the team move through the contest quickly.

Duksoo Kim, identified in the release as AUTOCRYPT's cofounder and CEO, said the outcome reflects the company's cybersecurity expertise and hands-on experience in cryptography and vehicle environments. Kim also said the result shows the value of combining AI-driven analysis with expert judgment.

AUTOCRYPT said it plans to expand that human-AI approach into vehicle vulnerability assessment and penetration testing services. The release did not give a timetable for those services.

Sources

• PR Newswire release

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