Breaking Botslab
Julian B of Software Secured presented his security research on one of the most popular dash cams on Amazon. The question he started with was whether an unauthenticated attacker co…
Hidden by Design: Battle-Tested Hybrid C2 Infrastructure
Talk night at TrendAI Toronto in Liberty Village, with TrendAI as host and sponsor. Christian Ramirez (founder and head of offensive security at RBT Security) and Korenza Patterson…
DC416 Summer Mixer + Hacker Jeopardy
A summer mixer built around Hacker Jeopardy, which returned for the first time since 2022. People were split into Blue and Red teams at the door and each got one cue card at check-…
Input Sanitization for Agentic Systems: What Actually Works
KC Udonsi, Stan's head of cybersecurity and a DC416 co-organizer, covered the semantic firewall he built after the AI policy he wrote at Stan got clicked through and ignored. It sa…
DC416 — AI Fight Club: Talk + Workshop
AI Fight Club paired a talk with a workshop on where AI helps in security and where it only guesses, with two DC416 organizers working opposite sides. Amir Hosseinpour covered offe…
Evil Twin Techniques For Real World Exploitation
Harold "superkojiman" Rodriguez presented on Evil Twin techniques at Stan. Most people picture a fake login page at a coffee shop. Harold's talk was about building out Evil Twin in…
LLMs Don't Hack, They Guess
Talk night at Stan, who also sponsored. Jeet, who does offensive security at Robinhood, spent a year pointing LLMs at real production code and open source. He said simple patterns…
Killing Watts: ICS Attack Chains Against Power Systems
At Stan, Parham Mohammadi presented the CPPS-SEC Lab, an ICS attack simulation environment he built. It had a simulated power system running power flow on a standard IEEE 14-bus gr…
Syndicate: Inside the Life of a Ransomware Operator
DC416's relaunch night at Stan happened in a record-breaking snowstorm, and the room was packed anyway. Tammy Harper, a senior threat intelligence researcher at Flare, gave a talk…