Event Coverage & Technical Writeups

Detailed recaps from our events, speaker highlights, and technical deep dives on the topics covered at DC416.

LLMs Don't Hack, They Guess: AI in Vulnerability Discovery

March 19, 2026  |  Jeet

A year of throwing LLMs at real production code at Robinhood. Where AI actually finds bugs, why "point it at the repo and find everything" burns money, and a real Helm CVE walkthrough across 20 layers of code that Cursor and Claude both missed.

#AI #LLM #AppSec

Killing Watts: ICS Attack Chains Against Power Systems

February 19, 2026  |  Parham Mohammadi

Power grid protocols built on trust get chained into total system collapse. MQTT takeover, Modbus manipulation, false data injection. The operator dashboard stayed green the entire time.

#ICS #OTSecurity #PowerSystems

Syndicate: Inside the Life of a Ransomware Operator

January 15, 2026  |  Tammy Harper

How ransomware gangs actually work. Leaked chats. Real people. The stuff you don't see in headlines. DC416's relaunch talk breaks down the ransomware economy from script kiddies to corporate syndicates.

#Ransomware #ThreatIntel #BlackBasta

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