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IIIT-Ranchi team wins top prize in cyber hackathon
Patna: The IIIT-Ranchi team emerged winner in the 'Cyber Hackathon 2025', a two-day national competition focused on cybercrime prevention and youth technical skill development, organised by the Economic Offences Unit of Bihar police in Patna.
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Amity University, Noida, got the second prize, and Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj University, Kanpur, received the third prize on the concluding day here on Thursday.
Additional director general of police, Nayyar Hasnain Khan, addressed the session, highlighting cybercrime threats and encouraging participants to create beneficial, and victim-focused technical solutions. During the event, students received problem statements requiring solutions within a 24-hour time frame.
The initiative focused on developing technical tools for efficient public complaint resolution.
Participants tackled various cyber challenges, including voice fraud mitigation, AI-based threat detection, document security, phishing detection, spam alerts, fake news analysis, banking fraud identification, mobile forensics, and VOIP tracking.
Altogether, 14 teams presented their solutions on the second day, evaluated on multiple criteria by a distinguished panel including DIG (Cyber) Sanjay Kumar, DIG EOU Manavjeet Singh Dhillon, C-DAC Patna Director Aditya Kumar Sinha, SP (Cyber) Amarkesh D, SP (Cyber) Vinay Tiwari, and C-DAC specialists.
The winning team received a Rs 30,000 cash prize, while Rs 20,000 was given to the second, and Rs 10,000 cash to the third winner.
