SS Hacker Team GLOBAL Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon 2026
SS Hacker Team
📌About the Events
The SS Hacker Team GLOBAL Cybersecurity & AI Hackathon 2026 is a project-focused, rapid-innovation hackathon designed to address the modern threat landscape. Orchestrated by India’s prominent cybersecurity community leadership, this global challenge merges offensive and defensive security practices with machine learning. Rather than evaluating participants purely on theoretical security concepts, this event acts as a hands-on technical incubator, pushing developers and ethical hackers to build actual, scalable defense applications.
ℹ️Event Overview
- Category: Project-Based Cybersecurity & AI/ML Hackathon.
- Organizer: SS Hacker Team (Led by Meet Kumar & Sukhveer Singh).
- Venue: 100% Online / Virtual.
- Team Size: Solo or Team participation (No rigid cap specified).
- Cost: Hybrid Model (Round 1 is 100% Free; Selected Finalists pay a ₹500 entry fee for the advanced evaluation track).
📅 Important Dates
- Registration Opens: May 3, 2026
- Registration & Round 1 Entry Deadline: May 10, 2026
- Hackathon Operational Phase: May 10 – May 25, 2026
🔐 Specialized Hackathon Tracks
- 1. AI Phishing Detection: Develop cognitive modeling tools or browser extensions capable of detecting deceptive links, dynamic look-alike domains, and social engineering language vectors in real-time.
- 2. Malware AI: Build intelligent heuristic classifiers or sandboxed automated systems using machine learning to predict, flag, and dissect newly engineered zero-day binary exploits.
- 3. Web Vulnerability Scanner: Engineer automated scripts or scanning microservices designed to probe, map out, and report structural oversights like OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities within targeted web architectures.
- 4. Threat Intelligence: Structure predictive data dashboards that automatically parse global open-source intelligence feeds to generate real-time defensive insights.
🔥 Why Participate?
- No Age or Professional Bar: Open universally whether you are a high school student deploying your first script or a senior InfoSec analyst looking to experiment with test-time compute.
- Portfolio Real Estate: This is a purely project-driven event. You will walk away with a functional, validated open-source repository to directly anchor your technical cybersecurity portfolio.
- Industry Mentorship: Get your codebase directly audited by seasoned industry practitioners, providing a direct loop to hone your software security development lifecycle practices.