Products and services, research and development, and competition news from Ikotas Labs.https://ikotaslabs.comen-ushttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-08-25https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-08-25We are launching Web application vulnerability assessment and forensic support services powered by SUGI, our fully local LLM product. Integrated with our AI agent, SUGI delivers performance close to that of frontier models, with no data ever leaving your infrastructure — suitable even for environments handling confidential data.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTproduct-serviceai-llmhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-08-24https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-08-24Japanese members personally recruited by our CEO won DEF CON 34 CTF Finals and also earned five more placements at Village CTFs and other contests, including additional 1st places.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTcompetitionsecurity-competitionhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-08-07https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-08-07Our specialized LLM agent reached arbitrary code execution in all 10 trials across two V8 vulnerabilities.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchai-llmvulnerability-researchexploit-developmenthttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-07-25https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-07-25BunkyoWesterns, a team including our members, took 1st place worldwide at CODEGATE 2026 CTF Finals (General track) held in South Korea, earning a first-place prize of ₩50,000,000.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcompetitionsecurity-competitionhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-07-21https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-07-21Our member discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in the Privacy component of Firefox for Android and reported it to Mozilla.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchvulnerability-researchhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-07-18https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-07-18We are launching Ikotas Exploit Development Training, a practical training program centered on LLM-assisted exploit development. This hands-on program is tailored to each participant and covers the major targets researchers work against from an attacker's perspective, walking through the process from vulnerability analysis to constructing exploits that actually succeed.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTproduct-serviceai-llmexploit-developmenttraininghttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-07-13https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-07-13Our team discovered multiple memory safety vulnerabilities that lead to arbitrary code execution in tools shipped with the TeX Live typesetting system, and reported them to the developer under coordinated disclosure. We demonstrated that arbitrary code execution is achievable on the official distribution binaries simply by compiling a malicious document.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchvulnerability-researchhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-06-26https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-06-26We are launching Ikotas AI×Security Training, a practical training program for putting AI agents to work in real security operations. It is a hands-on series covering AI utilization across security workflows from an attacker's perspective.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTproduct-serviceai-llmtraininghttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-06-11https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-06-11BunkyoWesterns, a team including our members, took 1st place worldwide at Midnight Sun CTF 2026 Finals held in Sweden.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcompetitionsecurity-competitionhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-05-28https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-05-28Our member discovered a local privilege escalation 0-day on the latest Linux kernel, chaining two kernel bugs, and reported it to the vendor.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchvulnerability-researchhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-05-19https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-05-19Our member discovered vulnerabilities in Firefox's DOM: Bindings (WebIDL) and Popup Blocker components and reported them to Mozilla.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchvulnerability-researchhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-05-16https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-05-16Our member competed on day 3 of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 and successfully exploited OpenAI Codex, an AI coding agent.Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcompetitionai-llmexploit-developmentsecurity-competitionhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-05-14https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-05-14Our member competed on day 1 of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 and successfully exploited NVIDIA Megatron Bridge and LiteLLM.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcompetitionai-llmexploit-developmentsecurity-competitionhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-05-11https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-05-11Our member discovered a new privilege escalation variant of the Dirty Frag family in the Linux kernel's RxRPC RxGK security class.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchvulnerability-researchexploit-developmenthttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-04-22https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-04-22Our member discovered vulnerabilities in Firefox's Networking: Cookies and Debugger components and reported them to Mozilla.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchvulnerability-researchhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-03-24https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-03-24Our member discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in Firefox's Netmonitor component and reported it to Mozilla.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchvulnerability-researchhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-02-01https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-02-01Our team won the general category of the Ministry of Defense Cyber Contest 2026.Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTcompetitionsecurity-competitionhttps://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-01-20https://ikotaslabs.com/en/news/2026-01-20Our members took 1st and 2nd place at the Singapore AI Safety Red Teaming Challenge 2026.Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTcompetitionai-llmsecurity-competition