AhnLab, an AI-native security platform company, said on Tuesday its TrueEducation team, made up of the company’s research staff, won an excellence award in the problem-solving category at the Digital Forensics Challenge 2026 held at the EL Tower in Yangjae, Seoul, hosted by the National Intelligence Service.

A total of 110 teams competed in the problem-solving category this year, testing their ability to solve practical digital forensics challenges such as AI coding vulnerability searches and virtual asset tracking.

The TrueEducation team, made up of Analysis Team managers Tae-hyun Song (송태현) and Seong-hyeon Ryu (류성현), A-FIRST Team manager Wang-rok Kim (김왕록) and A-CERT Team manager Jun-gyu Lee (이준규), won the excellence award in fourth place overall. It was the top result among 56 teams in the general category, AhnLab said.

The TrueEducation team analysed intrusion routes, attack activity and traces of deletion and concealment based on various types of digital evidence from security incidents, including system logs, memory and file systems.

In addition to the TrueEducation team, AhnLab said the Forensic Mythos team, formed by Analysis Team managers Moon-joo Lim (임문주) and Ji-hoon Yeo (여지훈) and A-FIRST Team manager Ju-wan Shim (심주완), also made the top ranks in 17th place overall.

Chang-kyu Han (한창규), head of AhnLab’s research institute, said AhnLab is standing out each year in global digital forensics and incident analysis on the back of field experience built on the front lines of cyber security rapidly changing due to AI, and continuous research and development. He said the company will keep improving its forensics, threat analysis and response capabilities and establish itself as a competitive AI-native security platform company.