We'll be at the RSA this week!
If you want to talk about VR, AI, malware, and what’s on the IDA roadmap, book some time with us.
👉 meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/chris-hernan...

📚IDA Pro online training season is approaching!

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⚡Check out what we have in store for IDA in 2026...

We’re expanding technical depth, improving performance, strengthening collaboration, and introducing a new generation of scalable RE tools.

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🔦 IDA Plugin Spotlight: DBImporter
Import your databases from Ghidra into IDA with this new plugin. It also can be used programmatically as a Python module or a CLI tool; making headless operation and automated conversions possible.

Check it out: hex-rays.com/blog/plugin-...

You can also skip the hunt and book a chat with us here: meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/justine-benj...

We're heading to RE//verse in March. As usual, we are on the hunt for product feedback. In exchange, we'll give you some swag.

Your mission:
1️⃣ Find us.
2️⃣ Show us you subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on social.
3️⃣ Whisper the code word: Glitter Burrito.

Swag is limited… come prepared.

📣 IDA 9.3 has officially shipped!

Expanded architecture support, improved decompilation accuracy, performance gains, and meaningful quality-of-life upgrades for everyday reversing.

Explore the highlights and dive into the release notes:
hex-rays.com/blog/ida-9.3...

🔗 Teams, our collaborative add-on tool, will be fully integrated into IDA 9.3.

No more switching to HVUI. Collaboration, diffing, and commits now happen directly inside IDA.

hex-rays.com/blog/ida-9.3...

🔧 IDA 9.3 will bring enhancements to our disassembler line-up, with improvements to instruction decoding, idiom recognition, and cross-reference generation.

ARM64 Extensions (SVE, MTE, CSSC), Andes AndeStar™ (V3 NDS32 and V5 RISC-V), ARC, TriCore & more.

hex-rays.com/blog/ida-9.3...

We're out here @DistrictCon! Chris and JB are roaming around excited to meet and talk with all you IDA users.

If you want to minimize search time, you can book a chat with us here: meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/justine-benj...

We're heading to D.C. for @districtcon.bsky.social this weekend and would love to connect.

We're ready to discuss content collaborations, and gain product feedback, user insights, and more.

Book a few minutes with us during the conference: meetings-eu1.hubspot.com/justine-benj...

🏃🏽 IDA 9.3 will see faster, more responsive tabular views, contributing to a noticeably smoother experience when working with large files.

Check it out: hex-rays.com/blog/ida-9.3...

📢 LAST CALL: IDA Plugin Contest!

The submission window closes January 15, 2026 @ 11:59pm CET.

Read the entry instructions and full details here:
hex-rays.com/plugin-contest

Good luck!

🔎 Here's another sneak peek!
IDA 9.3 will expand its decompiler lineup w/ RH850, improve Golang support, update the Microcode Viewer, add the "forbid assignment propagation" feature, and more.

Get the details here: hex-rays.com/blog/ida-9.3...

IDA 9.3: Practical Improvements to the Type System IDA 9.3 improves the type system: parse Objective-C headers directly, cleaner exports, and full round-trip types without losing structure.

👀 IDA 9.3 is coming soon, so we'll be sharing some of the key updates in this release throughout the next few weeks...
➥ First up: Practical Improvements to the Type System
hex-rays.com/blog/ida-9.3...

🚨 The Hex-Rays IDA Plugin Contest 🚨

There's still time to submit your plugin!

We've updated the submission process, upped the prizes and opened it up to IDA Free users.

📅 Submissions close: January 15, 2026 Get the full update here: hex-rays.com/plugin-contest

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⬆️ Grow with us! #hiring
Hex-Rays has a handful of open positions in our product, engineering and business development departments. We have offices in Belgium and Romania, with onsite and hybrid opps.

Start the new year with a new adventure...
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🔌 Allow us to introduce the new IDA Plugin Manager.

Now, with a few simple commands, you can access a modern, self-service plugin ecosystem. Discover and get discovered more easily.

hex-rays.com/blog/introdu...

Introducing HCLI: The Modern Command-Line Interface for IDA Introducing HCLI: a streamlined way to install IDA, manage licenses, automate CI/CD workflows, and build or deploy plugins with ease.

⌨️Introducing HCLI: The Modern Command-Line Interface for IDA.
Automate workflows, simplify plugin development across platforms, manage licenses and more.

hex-rays.com/blog/introdu...

BlackHoodie Interview: Building Community, Opportunity, & Confidence BlackHoodie founder Marion Marschalek shares her journey from early challenges to creating a global, inclusive reverse-engineering network.

In our latest blog we speak with Marion Marschalek of @blackhoodie.bsky.social on how community fuels career, how one challenge led to many opportunities and how you can get involved.
hex-rays.com/blog/blackho...

How 1-Click Can Hack Your iPhone YouTube video by Billy Ellis

Check out how Billy Ellis dives into 1-click iOS browser exploits, walking through CVE-2020-9802, a JIT bug.
Great step-by-step explanation of how WebKit and JavaScriptCore vulnerabilities are exploited.

🔄In case you missed it...

IDA Domain API.
This new open-source Python API is designed to make scripting in IDA simpler, more consistent, and more natural.

Check out the key features, code examples, documentation and more:
ida-domain.docs.hex-rays.com

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We are thrilled to announce our first group of sponsored CTF Teams!

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📢 The Hex-Rays IDA Plugin Contest is open!

We've updated the submission process, added more prizes, and IDA Free users can now enter to win.

📅 Submissions close: January 15, 2026

Get the full update here: hex-rays.com/plugin-contest

Good luck!

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