HackForge
Forge Your Cyber Security Skills
Welcome to HackForge!
Welcome to the HackForge CTF platform! We're a community-driven platform where you can practice your cybersecurity skills across multiple categories:
- Web — SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, and more
- Pwn — Binary exploitation and memory corruption
- Crypto — Classical and modern cryptography
- Forensics — Memory, disk, and network analysis
- Reversing — Malware and binary analysis
- Misc — OSINT, steganography, and programming
New challenges are added regularly by our community of contributors. Good luck and happy hacking!
Remember: We're all here to learn. Don't hesitate to ask for help but keep the play honest and fair!
Latest News
2026-08-19 - Summer Update: 10 New Challenges
Massive drop - 10 new challenges across 3 categories.
~ Binary Exploitation (4): 4 new challenges continuing the exploitation journey.
~ OSINT (2): Brand new category! 2 investigation challenges.
~ Cryptography (4): Real crypto is here. 4 challenges, no more encoding puzzles.
Difficulty ranges from 2/5 to 4/5. First blood bonuses on all 10. Happy hacking!
2026-05-28 — 4 New Challenges Deployed
4 fresh challenges are live!
~ Second Life (Web, Moderate, 150 XP) — An enterprise note-keeping app with trusting session handling
~ Photo Finish (Web, Hard, 200 XP) — A merch store with a single-use coupon. Or is it?
~ Black Box (Misc, Moderate, 150 XP) — A mysterious scoring interface. Can you figure out what it knows?
~ Fence Post (Pwn, Moderate, 150 XP) — A secure vault with a custom input function
First blood bonus available on all 4!
~ UI refresh: cleaner color palette, less visual noise, improved navigation
2026-03-03 — Platform Update: Labs & Scoring
~ Web Challenges Are Live: 5 interactive web labs dropped!
~ Binary Exploitation (Pwn): 1 pwn challenge updated and 2 new ones deployed
~ XP Rebalance & Hint Improvements: All existing solves have been retroactively recalculated
~ UI Polish: Navigation, footer, and typography cleaned up for a better reading experience