AUTOCRYPT, the South Korean automotive cybersecurity firm, has won the Car Hacking Village Capture the Flag competition at DEF CON 34, besting 83 teams from around the world in a contest widely regarded as the proving ground for real-world vehicle hacking talent. The company’s Red Team became the first in the event’s history to complete every challenge on the roster, finishing in 25 hours against a 50-hour window, according to the firm and multiple industry outlets that covered the win. The competition ran August 7 through 9 in Las Vegas as part of DEF CON 34, one of the world’s largest and longest-running hacking conferences. The Car Hacking Village has staged its CTF since 2015, and this year’s field asked competitors to move fluidly between the abstract and the physical: identifying attack vectors, chasing down vulnerabilities, and breaking cryptographic protections across testbeds built around electronic control units, embedded controller boards, and full production vehicle architectures. A Second Title After a Near Miss For AUTOCRYPT, the victory closes a loop that opened in 2022, the year the company first entered the competition and took the top prize. Last year’s team finished third, a result that by AUTOCRYPT’s own account sharpened its preparation for this summer’s return. Finishing the entire challenge set in half the allotted time was enough to distinguish the team from the rest of the 83-team field, a number that underscores how competitive and how global the car-hacking discipline has become since the Village’s founding. Humans and AI Agents Working the Same Bench What set this year’s run apart, according to AUTOCRYPT, was not just speed but method. The Red Team paired its human security researchers with the company’s proprietary AI-powered security analysis platform, deploying multiple autonomous agents to comb through firmware and probe target subsystems at the same