The Future Crime Research Foundation (FCRF) has announced the FCRF Hackathon 2026, positioned as India’s largest scenario-based cybercrime investigation hackathon. The online competition is open to participants from diverse academic and professional backgrounds, including cybersecurity professionals, digital forensics practitioners, investigators, researchers, working professionals, and cybercrime enthusiasts.
Registrations for the hackathon will remain open until July 5, 2026. The competition is designed to move beyond conventional coding challenges by placing participants inside realistic cyber incident scenarios that require evidence analysis, forensic reasoning, attack reconstruction, and structured reporting. Interested participants can click here to register for the FCRF Hackathon 2026 before July 5, 2026.
A Real-World Cyber Investigation Challenge
Cybercriminals are increasingly using artificial intelligence, deepfakes, identity manipulation, ransomware-as-a-service, social engineering, and multi-stage attack techniques to conduct offences that are difficult to detect and investigate.
The FCRF Hackathon has been structured to reflect this changing threat landscape. Participants will be presented with practical problem statements involving areas such as cybercrime investigation, digital evidence, AI-enabled threats, attack logs, timeline reconstruction, identity-based fraud, and emerging cyber risks.
Rather than merely identifying a correct answer, participants will be expected to develop a structured and evidence-based investigation that clearly explains what happened, how the incident unfolded, and what conclusions can be supported by the available digital evidence.
Open to Professionals, Learners and Cybercrime Enthusiasts
The hackathon will be conducted entirely online, allowing participants to join from anywhere. Individual participation is open to professionals, researchers, law enforcement personnel, technology practitioners, faculty members, graduates, postgraduates, undergraduates, and individuals interested in cybercrime and digital investigations.
The challenge has been designed as both a competition and a learning experience. Participants will gain practical exposure to digital forensics, cyber incident investigation, attack techniques, threat patterns, tactics, techniques and procedures, evidence analysis, forensic methodology, reporting, and investigative documentation.
Every eligible participant who successfully completes the hackathon requirements will receive an official Certificate of Participation from FCRF.
Top Five Performers to Be Honoured at FutureCrime Summit 2026
The top five performers, including the winners and runners-up, will receive special certificates, complimentary passes to Future Crime Summit 2026, and formal recognition at the summit.
Future Crime Summit 2026 will be held on August 6 and 7, 2026, in New Delhi. Recognised as India’s largest conference on technology-enabled crime, the summit will bring together senior law enforcement officers, cybersecurity leaders, digital forensics experts, policymakers, defence personnel, investigators, technology companies, researchers, and industry professionals.
The felicitation will provide the top performers with an opportunity to receive national-level recognition and engage with leading experts working across cybercrime investigation, digital security, artificial intelligence, fraud prevention, cyber policing, and national resilience.
Interested participants can click here to register for the FCRF Hackathon 2026 before July 5, 2026.
