Cognition Engineers Win DEF CON CTF with Perfect Blue Team
silasalberti · x · 2026-08-13
Engineers Sampriti and Alex Lin from AI coding firm Cognition have won the DEF CON CTF championship as part of the 'perfect blue' team.
Since forming in 2018, the perfect blue team steadily climbed from failing to qualify to placing 6th, 5th, and 2nd before finally securing the win. The team noted this was the last major CTF they aimed to conquer, marking a bittersweet and perfect end to their CTF journey.
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