Kaspersky CTF 2026 Winners Announced: BunkyoWesterns Wins
BunkyoWesterns from Japan has claimed victory in the attack-defense finals of Kaspersky’s CTF 2026. The winners outpaced 13 finalist teams from around the world in a 24-hour battle for the $18,000 prize pool.
Designed to sharpen cybersecurity skills and strengthen global cybersecurity talent, the CTF 2026 finals, brought together the winners of two competitions – the CTF online qualifiers and Kaspersky{CTF} – both completed earlier in the year. Together, the two tournaments drew in more than 2,800 teams and had 14 finalist teams representing Europe, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and North America.
At this year finals, top cybersecurity talent faced-off in a tense real-time hacking duel, simultaneously defending their own servers while exploiting identical vulnerabilities on rival teams’ systems. Scores weren’t just about who hacked the most; uptime mattered too, with each team’s results multiplied by how well they kept their own services running under pressure. One...
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