Enki Whitehat Wins Kaspersky CTF Asia-Pacific for Second Straight Year
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Enki Whitehat announced on the 1st that its team of researchers, Odin, won the 2026 Kaspersky CTF (Capture The Flag) in the Asia-Pacific region.
With this victory, Odin secured the Asia-Pacific title for the second year in a row, and 18 participants, including Threat Research Team Leader Cheon Ho-jin, solved 30 challenge problems and recorded a total score of 4413 points.
The Odin team will advance to the Kaspersky-hosted Security Analyst Summit (SAS) CTF final, to be held on October 20 in Bali, Indonesia.
Enki Whitehat announced on the 1st that its team of researchers, Odin, won the 2026 Kaspersky CTF (Capture The Flag) in the Asia-Pacific region. With this victory, Odin secured the Asia-Pacific title for the second year in a row.
The competition is a hacking defense contest hosted by global security company Kaspersky for security teams from companies and academia around the world. It was held online from August 29 to 30 and took place across 5 regions, including North America, Europe and Asia.
Each regional winning team is granted a berth in the Kaspersky-hosted Security Analyst Summit (SAS) CTF, which will be held in Bali, Indonesia.
Enki Whitehat's Odin team took first place in the Kaspersky CTF Asia-Pacific region. The Odin team, with 18 participants including Threat Research Team Leader Cheon Ho-jin, solved 30 challenge problems and recorded a total score of 4413 points.
With this result, the Odin team will advance to the SAS CTF final on October 20. In the SAS CTF final, it will compete against the regional winners.
Enki Whitehat previously took runner-up honors at DEF CON 34 in August as a combined team, and has now added the Kaspersky CTF Asia-Pacific title. The company said this has once again demonstrated its world-class offensive security capabilities.
Cheon Ho-jin, head of the Threat Research Team at Enki Whitehat, said the result was proof that the team had finished first in Asia for the second year in a row and that the researchers' vulnerability analysis achievements and practical assessment capabilities had been proven on the world stage. Lee Seong-gwon, CEO of Enki Whitehat, expressed pride in the team of researchers in achieving consecutive results on the global stage and said the company would apply its globally proven technologies to its products and provide security that customers can trust even amid cyber threats.
Source: IT DAILY · Kim Ho-jun
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