Cybersecurity has emerged as a key task for companies and public institutions due to a series of per..
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Publish Date: 2026-07-04 08:41:00
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The world’s top three hacking defense competition ‘Codegate’Held at COEX from the 23rd to the 24th of next month3,300 people from 88 countries participated in the fierce preliminary roundKAIST-developed AI hackers for the first time 사진 확대 This is the image of the “Codegate 2025” competition held at COEX in Seoul in July last year. Codegate Security Forum Cybersecurity has emerged as a key task for companies and public institutions due to a series of personal information leakage and hacking incidents from last year to the first half of this year. As basic information such as names and phone numbers, as well as financial and communication information, are leaked on a large scale, there are growing calls for a re-check of the entire security system.This year, a new variable called artificial intelligence (AI) hacking has been added to this. This is because AI has developed to the level of analyzing software codes on its own, finding vulnerabilities and even generating attack codes. Antropic’s AI model Mitos, unveiled in April, shocked the global security industry by discovering security flaws that had not been found in 27 years.In the security industry, it is evaluated that starting this year, the era of AI being used in earnest in both cyberattacks and defense has begun. As the speed of attacks using AI is increasing, the importance of professional white hackers to prevent them is also growing.Amid this trend, attention is being paid to “Codegate 2026,” which is considered one of the world’s top three hacking defense competitions. Code Gate 2026 will be held from July 23 to 24 at the COEX Grand Ballroom in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. The theme of this year’s event is ‘Way to AI World’s Three Powerhouses: Security’. 사진 확대 This is the image of the “Codegate 2025” competition held at COEX in Seoul in July last year. Codegate Security Forum The biggest point to watch is that a human white hacker and an AI hacker will face off on the same stage for the first time in Korea. Ten years after the Go match between AlphaGo and Lee Se-dol, which was called the match of the century, the match between humans and AI has shifted from the Go board to the front line of cybersecurity.The AI hacker, co-developed by the Codegate Security Forum and KAIST, is an autonomous cybersecurity agent system. Rather than simply assisting with human instructions, they analyze problems on their own, hypothesize, and find vulnerabilities. It is designed to accumulate failed attempts and successful attempts and reflect them in the next judgment. As AI’s vulnerability detection capabilities have been rapidly advanced, it is also noteworthy to what extent AI hackers will achieve in this finals.The White Hacker camp is also formidable. 3,333 people from 88 countries around the world participated in the preliminary round held in March. It was the hottest competition in the last three years. Twenty general teams and 20 junior teams that passed the preliminary round will advance to the finals. There are more than 14 countries participating in the finals. In other words, white hackers from Korea, the United States, Japan, China, Vietnam, Finland, and Mongolia all participated in Seoul. They made it to the finals after 15 hours of non-stop hacking.In the general division, white hackers from various countries, including Japan, China, Vietnam, and Finland, including the No. 1 qualifying team “Rubiya Lab Expedition” and last year’s winner “Blue Water,” teamed up to make the list. In the Junier division, security talents under the age of 19, including South Korea, the United States, and Mongolia, compete for the championship. White hackers from various countries around the world will participate in Seoul.The finals will be conducted in a CTF problem-solving method. Participants solve problems with different difficulties within the time limit and score points. The general section lasts for 24 hours, and the junior section lasts for 12 hours. AI hackers are also evaluated in real time by putting their names on the same ranking table as human participants. The award ceremony will be held after the keynote speech on the morning of the 24th. 사진 확대 On the second day of the event, a conference will be held with global security experts. Kim Tae-soo, Vice President of Microsoft (MS), will give the keynote lecture. Vice President Kim is a world-class security expert who graduated from KAIST and received a master’s and doctorate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and became the youngest executive of Samsung Electronics. He is currently a full-time professor of computer engineering at Georgia Tech and cybersecurity and privacy, and led the winning joint team in the AI Cybersecurity Competition hosted by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).At the conference, KAIST Professor Kim Yong-dae will lead the discussion on “cyber security in the AI era.” Vice President Kim Tae-soo, Naver’s security leader Huh Kyu, Lee Jong-ho, Tiori CEO Park Se-joon, and officials from the Ministry of Science and ICT will also participate in the panel. Foreign experts such as FuzzingIO founder Richard Johnson and former CEO Michael Grohner of Chainalysis will also take the podium.A global training session for advanced security personnel will also be set up. All sessions are in English. The founder of Johnson deals with how to perform security tasks using the latest deep learning-based AI. French hardware security expert Olivier Thoma teaches semiconductor security and reverse engineering. Joe Fitzpatrick of the United States conducts physical attack practice targeting embedded and IoT systems.AI startup Hackathon will also be held. The hackathon, which will be held jointly with the Korea Technology Guarantee Fund, will be held for three days from July 21 to 23. The theme is ‘Startup Creating a New Daily Life in the AI Era’. The total prize money is 15 million won, with 10 million won for the first place, 3 million won for the second place and 2 million won for the third place. The examination evaluates not only problem justice, MVP completion, marketability and commercialization, but also security items. The intention is that AI services should be designed safely from the first stage of planning. 사진 확대 Codegate 2025 opening ceremony and awards ceremony appearance. [Reporter Han Joo Hyung] Codegate started in 2008 and has grown into a global security event representing Korea. Over the past 18 years, 57,000 security personnel from 97 countries have gone through the competition. Representative white hackers in Korea, such as Park Chan-am, Stillian, Lee Jong-ho, security leader, and Park Se-joon, are also former codegate winners. CEO Park, who attends the debate as a panelist, is a former winner of Codegate and currently leads security start-up Tiori.Hancom Group’s steady support is also considered the background of Codegate’s establishment as a global security event. Codegate is an event launched by Hancom Group Chairman Kim Sang-chul in 2008 to cultivate domestic security talent and create a white hacker ecosystem when even the word hacker was unfamiliar. This was the result of judging that information protection and cybersecurity will be key competitiveness in the future. Since then, it has grown into a global security platform where the government, the private sector, and academia participate together.Hancom Group will participate as a sponsor again this year to help discover security talents and strengthen cyber security competitiveness in the AI era. In particular, as the first confrontation between human white hackers and AI hackers was arranged this year, Codegate is drawing attention as a stage that shows the direction of future security technologies beyond simple hacking defense competitions.Cho Hyun-sook, chairman of the Codegate Security Forum, said, “As AI technology is used for both attack and defense, security rules are fundamentally changing. Codegate 2026 will be a stage to show the direction of a new security competition where humans and AI coexist.”
