AI CTF SPEEDRUN 01 — CLOUD
DEF CON 34 · 6–9 August 2026
Challenges open Thu 6 August, evening · exact time on Discord
Can you and your AI get in before the clock runs out?
root@speedrun:~# cat why.txt
A break-in used to take a skilled team weeks. AI is collapsing that time. Speed is becoming the game.
Agents are becoming standard kit on both sides of security. Knowing how to drive one — and where it still falls down — is going to become a core skill.
$ ./start --challenge cloud
[+] provisioning environment ......... ok
[+] issuing team credentials .......... ok
[+] minting model key ................. ok
[!] clock started — go
# first run. be kind.
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