Event Coverage & Technical Writeups
Detailed recaps from our events, speaker highlights, and technical deep dives on the topics covered at DC416.
Rooting the Fleet: Five Flaws in Ecovacs DEEBOT
One ordinary account could send a command to any Ecovacs robot vacuum in the world and run it as root. Five vulnerabilities, coordinated by DC416, with CVE IDs requested through MITRE CNA-LR.
LLMs Don't Hack, They Guess: AI in Vulnerability Discovery
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.
Killing Watts: ICS Attack Chains Against Power Systems
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.
Syndicate: Inside the Life of a Ransomware Operator
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.
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