Agents of Chaos: A New $100K Agentic Security Challenge

CrowdStrike has launched AI Unlocked: Agents of Chaos, an online AI red-teaming competition running from August 31 through September 29, 2026, with a total $100,000 prize pool. The game places participants in a fictional mission to infiltrate a group using autonomous AI agents and requires them to manipulate those agents through techniques modeled on real-world threats, including direct and indirect prompt injection and tool poisoning. Three progressively harder acts offer prizes of $10,000, $20,000, and a $70,000 grand prize, with players evaluated on their ability and efficiency in solving agent-security puzzles. CrowdStrike says the challenge is intended to give security practitioners practical experience with vulnerabilities created by enterprise AI agents, which may access internal data, execute code, initiate workflows, and connect to external services. The company positions AI Detection and Response as a security approach for identifying attacks that target or weaponize AI agents, and plans to keep the game available as an educational resource after the competition ends.

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