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About Capture The Flag (CTF): A Capture The Flag (CTF) competition is a cybersecurity-based contest where participants solve a variety of real-world hacking challenges to find hidden clues called flags. These flags act as proof of solving a challenge and are submitted on a CTF platform to earn points. Each challenge represents a practical security scenario, encouraging participants to think like ethical hackers while maintaining legal and responsible boundaries. The aim is not just to break systems but to understand, analyze, and defend them that promote both offensive and defensive cybersecurity skills. About the Event: The Capture the Flag (CTF) competition hosted by Tech Society IIIT Bhubaneswar is a cybersecurity challenge designed to test your hacking, analytical, and problem-solving skills in a real-world simulation environment. In this event, participants will face a series of challenges related to ethical hacking domains that include web exploitation, cryptography, forensics, reverse engineering, OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence), steganography, and privilege escalation. Each challenge will test different aspects of cybersecurity knowledge and technical expertise. The event is meant to promote cybersecurity awareness, encourage ethical hacking practices, and create a platform for collaboration among students passionate about security. This event will be co…

Registration closes
20 Dec 202620 Dec 2026
Prize pool
₹15K
Team size
2–3 members

About the hackathon

About Capture The Flag (CTF): A Capture The Flag (CTF) competition is a cybersecurity-based contest where participants solve a variety of real-world hacking challenges to find hidden clues called flags. These flags act as proof of solving a challenge and are submitted on a CTF platform to earn points. Each challenge represents a practical security scenario, encouraging participants to think like ethical hackers while maintaining legal and responsible boundaries. The aim is not just to break systems but to understand, analyze, and defend them that promote both offensive and defensive cybersecurity skills. About the Event: The Capture the Flag (CTF) competition hosted by Tech Society IIIT Bhubaneswar is a cybersecurity challenge designed to test your hacking, analytical, and problem-solving skills in a real-world simulation environment. In this event, participants will face a series of challenges related to ethical hacking domains that include web exploitation, cryptography, forensics, reverse engineering, OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence), steganography, and privilege escalation. Each challenge will test different aspects of cybersecurity knowledge and technical expertise. The event is meant to promote cybersecurity awareness, encourage ethical hacking practices, and create a platform for collaboration among students passionate about security. This event will be co…

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Timeline

  1. Registration closes

    Sun, 20 December 2026

    20 Dec 2026

  2. Hacking begins

    Sun, 07 February 2027

  3. Submissions close

    Sun, 07 February 2027

Prizes & benefits

Total prize pool

₹15K

₹15,000

  • Winner₹15,000
  • Certificates

Eligibility & rules

Who can enter

Not specified by the organizer.

Team size

2–3 members per team

Organizer

International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bhubaneswar

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