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Some great moments from CYBERWARCON 2025!
Insightful talks, real conversations, and a community that keeps pushing the work forward.
Grateful for our speakers, sponsors, volunteers, and attendees who made it all happen!
Make sure to stay connected with us for updates on #CYBERWARCON!
CYBERWARCON 2025 in person tickets are almost gone! Grab your ticket while you still can!
Can't make it in-person? Virtual tickets are just $75 and include livestream access + mailed swag right to your door for US attendees! Grab your ticket today!
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CYBERWARCON is ONE WEEK AWAY! 💣💥💻 ✉️
Check out our website to view the agenda and plan your day, read more about our speakers, or buy a last minute ticket!
We can't wait to see everyone in Arlington, VA on November 19th!
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Tickets are almost sold out. Nerds.
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Crypters are the secret weapon cybercriminals use to hide their malware in plain sight. Bavi Sadayappan from Mandiant unpacks how these tools work & why they’re thriving in underground markets.
Check out this throwback from #SLEUTHCON 2024. View the full video here > www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHe...
Meet our speaker David Magnotti!
He leads development of cyber threat intel. systems helping protect AWS customers from malware + more. He will be joining Dlshad Othman in their talk, "Ping First, Boom Second", to discuss Iranian cyber-threats Imperial Kitten and Muddy Water.
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Meet our speaker Dlshad Othman!
He has fifteen+ years of experience in threat intelligence, and has built a career at the intersection of cybersecurity and geopolitics.
He will be joining David Magnotti for their talk "Ping First, Boom Second", which will focus on Iranian cyber threat groups.
Meet our speaker: Roman Osadchuk! Head of Threat Intelligence at LetsData, he leads investigations into information operations. He has experience analyzing disinformation in Ukraine.He will be joining Ksenia Iliuk in their talk, "What Moldova Tells Us About Russian IOs".
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Check out his full talk here:
www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...
Paul Melson joined us this year as our keynote speaker to talk about the history of crimeware and its evolution through the years.
In his keynote he also gives some good advice to those who are in the field and creating their professional network. Check out what he had to say!
@stevenadair.bsky.social is back again!
Founder + President of Volexity leading a team of experts that deal w/ complex cyber intrusions from nation-state level intruders. His talk will cover a Chinese APT actor that Volexity tracks as UTA0388.
Check out the official agenda:
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ICYMI: Sherrod DeGrippo & Allan Liska break down the ransomware ecosystem on the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast.
Allan also joined us at SLEUTHCON this year for our first-ever game show talk!
Podcast: thecyberwire.com/podcasts/mic...
Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5feT...
Check out @intel471.bsky.social's Cybercrime Exposed podcast episode on DukeEugene, featuring Simon Williams, who joined us at SLEUTHCON earlier this year to discuss the rise and fall of this infamous Russian hacker.
Listen to the episode here:
www.intel471.com/resources/po...
The "Com" isn't simply a hacker group, it's an online phenomenon that has changed the cybercrime landscape in the past several years.
Allison Nixon shares more in this short clip from her SLEUTHCON 2025 talk with Ben Coon.
Watch the full talk here >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=TydZ...
Get your talk submission in by TONIGHT (September 26th @ 11:59pm EST) if you still want a chance to take the stage at CYBERWARCON this year!!
Submit here >> www.cyberwarcon.com/cfp2025
If you'd like to join us this year but aren't interested in speaking, tickets are available on our website!
Did you know we have 40+ talks available on our YouTube channel, all about cybercrime?
Catch up on a talk by experts during your lunch break and learn something new :)
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Meet our keynote @dmitri.silverado.org , Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, taking the stage at CYBERWARCON 2025.
A leading authority on cyberespionage & cyber warfare, his expertise has influenced global cybersecurity strategy and policy.
Grab your ticket today!
For more than a year I’ve spoken with Scattered Spider “caller” Noah Urban from a Florida jail. I wanted to know how they chose victims, their methods and how Noah became entangled in a virtually and physically violent world.
We’re publishing his story today: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
CFP closes in 1 WEEK!
Submit yours before its too late: www.cyberwarcon.com/cfp2025
#CYBERWARCON #CFP
Have you submitted your talk proposal yet? 👀
Due 11:59 PM (ET) on Friday, September 26th, 2025.
We pay $500 for each 30-min talk. Lightning round talks excluded, but everyone gets great swag!
Learn more: www.cyberwarcon.com/cfp2025
Check out their SLEUTHCON talk here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TydZ...
Check out Allison Nixon in HBO Max's latest tv series, "Most Wanted: Teen Hacker", on the true story of Julius Kivimäki.
Allison Nixon & Ben Coon joined us this year to discuss the "Com", an online phenomenon & subculture consisting of fraud, hacking, & violence.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0CH...
Check out this DomainTools post about a research project on Russian-affiliated ransomware, which coincides with Jon DiMaggio and Daniel Schwalbe's talk from SLEUTHCON this year.
dti.domaintools.com/mapping-hidd...
#SLEUTHCON #ransomware
Eric Loui from CrowdStrike gave a talk at SLEUTHCON this year on RADIANT SPIDER, a Chinese cybercrime group that has been targeting North America + East Asia since 2022.
Learn more about their intrusion tradecraft and attribution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rSJ...
Got knowledge on cyberattacks that would make a great talk at CYBERWARCON?
We want to hear about it. Submit your talk proposal TODAY!
CYBERWARCON's CFP closes at 11:59 PM (ET) on Friday, September 26th, 2025.
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#CYBERWARCON #CFP #threatintel #cybersecurityevents
ICYMI: Paul Melson, VP of Cyber Intelligence Engineering at Capital One, delivered the SLEUTHCON 2025 keynote!
Watch here >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FvB...
CYBERWARCON isn’t a typical hacker con or policy forum. It’s a one-day event focused on the destruction, disruption, and disinformation shaping the cyber threat landscape.
Happening Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025, in Arlington, VA + virtually!
Grab your spot or submit a talk proposal: www.cyberwarcon.com
Check out some of their corresponding research here
cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...
ICYMI!
Bavi Sadayappan and Zach Riddle from Google joined us this year at SLEUTHCON to step inside the minds of notorious ransomware operators and examine their thought processes throughout all stages of the attack lifestyle.
Check out their talk here >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMLp...
