{"id":11274,"date":"2026-09-25T00:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internshala.com\/competitions\/?p=11274"},"modified":"2026-09-25T00:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:18:06","slug":"kurukshetra-ctf-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internshala.com\/competitions\/kurukshetra-ctf-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurukshetra CTF 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83d\udccc<strong>About the Event<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kurukshetra CTF 2026 is a two-round cybersecurity and artificial intelligence challenge organized by the Department of Computer Science &amp; Engineering (AI &amp; ML), Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering (PCCOE), Pune, in association with AiMSA and IEEE. The competition combines an online LLM Jailbreak challenge with an offline Capture The Flag (CTF) finale, testing participants on prompt engineering, logical problem-solving, decoding, file and website analysis, and core cybersecurity concepts. 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A secondary listing reports 1\u20134, so participants should verify the final requirement on the registration page before submitting their team.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Intercollege Teams: Allowed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Every participant must carry a valid student ID card.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A participant cannot be a member of multiple teams.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Team composition becomes final after registration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Participants qualifying for the offline round must bring their own laptops.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The use of AI\/LLM tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude is permitted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-default\" style=\"background-color:#f0f0f0;color:#f0f0f0\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\ud83c\udfc6 <strong>Benefits for the Participants<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Total Prize Pool: <\/strong>\u20b920,000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The available event 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