Just Hacking Training Marks Two Years and Details AI-Driven Huntress CTF
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Summary
Just Hacking Training celebrates its second anniversary as John Hammond explains Huntress CTF's AI-assisted time trials, dynamic challenge variants and automation-focused scoring, alongside updates on hands-on security labs.
Key points
- John Hammond describes a free, monthlong Huntress CTF with daily challenge releases and an approach that explicitly encourages AI-assisted solving.
- Time trials and mastery mode introduce changing challenge variants, encouraging participants to build and optimize automated solvers rather than submit a single static answer.
- Challenges cover binary reverse engineering, script-based malware analysis and mobile applications, including artifacts involving Nim, Rust, C and PowerShell.
- The hosted environment offers daily replenishing credits; an API and pairing mechanism also allow participants to use their own environments and AI systems.
- Just Hacking Training describes a water-tower hacking lab with physical hardware and a virtual environment for industrial control system training.
- Free community projects include a deliberately vulnerable web application and prompt-injection and router-lab challenges.
- The team says Constructing Defense 2026 combines enterprise attack-and-defense exercises with an MCP-enabled AI teaching assistant.
Article Details
- Topics
- [04:31] New cybersecurity courses and a water-tower industrial control system lab
- [07:48] Continuum Con plans and proposed penetration-testing training
- [11:27] Women in Cyber Security training partnership and live course cohorts
- [24:38] Huntress CTF redesign for AI-assisted solving and timed automation
- [37:24] Hosted CTF credit limits, external environments and API integration
- [45:50] Free vulnerable web application and prompt-injection training projects
- [57:13] Enterprise defense lab and MCP-enabled AI teaching assistant
People
Andrew BelliniIdentified as the creator of the free prompt-injection game and an additional router-lab challenge.AnthonyTraining and operations participant who discusses Continuum Con and planned penetration-testing instruction covering scoping, reporting, vulnerability identification and exploitation.Eva BenIdentified as a co-presenter with Andrew Bellini of the prompt-injection training project at Continuum Con.John HammondJust Hacking Training participant and Huntress employee who describes designing the AI-assisted Huntress CTF, including dynamic challenges, time trials and automated solving.LilyDirector of education at Just Hacking Training who discusses course quality, new releases and her involvement in outlining Windows malware development training.