📌 About the Event

CyberStrike’26 is a high-octane, National-Level Offline Capture The Flag (CTF) competition hosted under TECHNIDHI’26 the Annual Student-Led Tech Fest of Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology (SNIST).

Jointly organized by the Cyber Security Club (CSC) and the Microsoft Innovation Club (MIC), this immersive, 24-hour continuous ethical hacking marathon simulates high-stakes, real-world security breaches. The arena is custom-built to test both offensive execution (Red Teaming) and defensive mitigation (Blue Teaming), bringing together the sharpest student hackers, security researchers, and developers from across the country.

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📅 Critical Timelines & Security Hub

• Event Execution Window: July 10, 2026 (09:00 AM) – July 11, 2026 (04:00 PM IST)
• Physical Venue Hub: CET LAB – 3, Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology (SNIST), Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Format: 24-Hour Continuous Offline Hackathon.
• Incident Response Contact: For portal accessibility issues, infrastructure connection errors, or gate entry updates, reach out to cyberstrike@sreenidhi.edu.in.

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💳 Roster Caps & Entry Fees

• Team Scaling Bounds: Closed operational cohorts of 2 to 3 members.
• Target Audience: Open to all undergraduate/postgraduate students and independent cybersecurity enthusiasts across India.
• Per-Capita Pricing Tier: ₹300 per individual team member (e.g., ₹600 for a duo, ₹900 for a trio).

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🕸️ Jeopardy-Style CTF Challenge Categories

The scoring environment features dynamic flag sub-systems calibrated across 9 core infrastructural domains:

• AI Security: Adversarial prompt injections, model poisoning, data extraction, and bypassing LLM guardrails.
• Web Exploitation: Exploiting flaws like SQL injections, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), SSRF, broken authentication mechanics, and API vulnerabilities.
• Cryptography: Breaking flawed custom ciphers, public-key infrastructure (PKI) vulnerabilities, and mathematical cryptanalysis.
• Digital Forensics & OSINT: Parsing volatile memory dumps, analyzing network packet captures (PCAPs), timeline log mapping, and open-source intelligence gathering.
• Reverse Engineering & Binary Exploitation: Disassembling pre-compiled binaries, attacking stack/heap structures, buffer overflows, and bypassing modern OS mitigations (ASLR/DEP).
• Steganography & Misc: Uncovering hidden payloads within digital media file matrices and solving complex out-of-the-box system puzzles.

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🏆 Prize Pools, Bonuses & Career Pipelines

• Consolidated Reward Pool: Worth ₹2,50,000+ in collective value.
• Operational Bonuses: Exclusive premium global certification vouchers, elite tech platform discount coupons, and limited-edition physical merchandise packages for active teams.
• Placement Pipelines: Top-ranked flag hunters will bypass standard resumes filters for direct internship placements with enterprise security sponsors and threat intelligence firms.
• Verified Badges: Every participant who logs onto the CTF server and submits a valid flag will be issued a formal National-Level Participation Certificate from the TECHNIDHI’26 apex board.