AI just solved a CTF for me

At this year’s YellowHat conference in Almere, the Dutch security community had the chance to participate in a Capture The Flag (CTF) competition organized by one of the conference sponsors - Blue Raven. Memet from Blue Raven did a great job setting up a CTF with realistic scenarios and datasets, which made it a lot of fun to solve the challenges. Foreword Being a big fan of CTFs and digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) in general, I couldn’t resist the temptation to participate. After numerous attempts to solve the first challenge and an enlightening tip from a colleague, I made some progress and solved the first 12 challenges. ...

January 16, 2026 · 6 min · 1109 words · Nicola Suter