Hex-Rays announced the official open submission of the 2026 IDA Plugin Contest with submissions open through November 30, 2026.

Hex-Rays was founded in 2005 to improve digital security and face the rising cybersecurity threats that are increasingly affecting both public and private entities. Fully independent from any governmental agencies and stock market pressures, Hex-rays is renowned for developing state-of-the-art binary software analysis solutions used for reverse engineering, hostile code analysis, and vulnerability research. Its renowned product IDA Pro is the premier product for software disassembly. Hex-Rays has also released the Hex-Rays Decompiler plugin for IDA Pro, which dramatically increases the productivity of IT security researchers involved in the analysis of real-world C/C++ binaries. Thanks to the speed and scalability of its core algorithms, Hex-Rays does not merely break new ground in the well-known C/C++ decompilation problem: it lays the foundations for future developments in the field of binary analysis.

Founded 2005