CTF Event
SpookyCTF 2026
Nov 6–7, 2026
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EVENT TIME HAS BEEN SHIFTED TO START AND END 2 HOURS AFTER TIME LISTED ABOVE REGISTRATION IS NOW AVAILABLE! BOO!! Welcome to SpookyCTF 2026! Organized by the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Cyber Security Network (formerly known as NICC), this is our annual Halloween CTF event, open to all! We've made this CTF beginner-friendly, with a mix of harder challenges. Our mission is to help beginners develop professionally in cybersecurity while still keeping things fun! You'll be pushed to stay curious and strengthen your reasoning skills across challenges of varying difficulty. Our challenge categories include Binary Exploitation/Reverse Engineering, Cryptography, Forensics, OSINT, Web, and Misc. Expect weird but fun challenges developed by our team at CSN. SpookyCTF is hybrid — in person
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