The @SLEUTHCON CFP closes next week. Don’t waste valuable time doing your taxes. Submit! Submit! Submit!

🐍🐻🌲 SLEUTHCON 2026 is coming June 5 in Arlington, VA + virtually!

Early bird tickets are live, and trust us, your wallet will thank you later. Grab yours before prices go up!

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Winter SHIELD: Closing the Security Control Gap In this episode of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast, host⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Sherrod DeGrippo⁠ speaks with Jarrod Forgues Schlenker of the FBI’s Cyber Division about the pattern's investigators see in cyber incidents and how initiatives like Operation Winter Shield aim to close the gap between knowing what to do and actually implementing it. They discuss the importance of foundational controls like phishing-resistant authentication, secure logging, and strong identity protection, as well as the role threat intelligence and prevention play in strengthening organizational defenses. The conversation highlights how small, practical security improvements can significantly disrupt attackers and help organizations reduce risk before an incident occurs.

In the latest Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast episode, Microsoft’s Sherrod DeGrippo and the FBI Cyber Division’s Jarrod Forgues Schlenker discuss what actually reduces breaches: consistent execution of foundational controls. msft.it/63324QQ08C.

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Full-talk speakers get a $500 honorarium, ALL speakers get the best swag!

Don't wait - submissions close April 17th at 11:59 (ET)! Learn more about our CFP and submit yours today.

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Got something you think would make a great talk at SLEUTHCON this year?

We are looking for speakers to share their knowledge of cybercriminal threats with our in-person and virtual audience, as well as media who are present at the event.

The Watched Watching Back: North Korean Threat Actors Investigate Public Threat Intel SLEUTHCON 2025 YouTube video by SLEUTHCON

Check out their SLEUTHCON talk here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxRQ...

From Narrative to Knowledge Graph | LLM-Driven Information Extraction in Cyber Threat Intelligence LLMs can turn CTI narratives into structured intelligence at scale, but speed-accuracy trade-offs demand careful design for operational defense workflows.

Check out the latest from past SLEUTCHON speaker, Dr Aleksandar Milenkoski at SentinelOne!

Milenkoski joined us last year with Sreekar Madabushi to present their findings on a North Korean threat cluster.

Read the SentinelOne blog post here:
www.sentinelone.com/labs/from-na...

SLEUTHCON is back for its 5th year, and it's one of the best cybercrime conferences for a reason. Not only do we feature some of the best research, but we also have the best vibes! ✨🐍

Early bird tickets are on sale + our CFP is OPEN!

Join us June 5 | Arlington, VA + virtually

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We're proud to announce Thomas Roccia @fr0gger.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy as keynote speaker of #SLEUTHCON June 5th in Arlington, VA + online!

Creator of Nova, founder of the Unprotect Project, and a leading voice at the intersection of threat intel + AI.

Save your spot today!
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SLEUTHCON 2026 is coming! 🐍🐻🌲

Registration is open and our CFP is live!

We're back on June 5th, in-person in Arlington, VA and virtually. CFP closes April 17th + tickets will sell out!

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Sreekar Madabushi & Aleksandar Milenkoski joined us at SLEUTHCON 2025 to present their findings on how North Korean threat actors showed interest in Validin’s threat intel data.

Watch their full talk to learn more about what they found.

Full presentation >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxRQ...

Some of the largest online propaganda campaigns are using 'AI slop,' researchers say Researchers at Graphika say that online propaganda campaigns have flooded the internet with low-quality, AI-generated content.

Check out this article written by Kevin Collier featuring a report from Dina Sadek and Margot Fulde-Hardy from Graphika.

Dina and Margot joined us at CYBERWARCON to highlight the growing class of low-effort, AI-powered influence campaigns.

Read the NBC article: www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

New Amazon Threat Intelligence findings: Nation-state actors bridging cyber and kinetic warfare | Amazon Web Services The new threat landscape The line between cyber warfare and traditional kinetic operations is rapidly blurring. Recent investigations by Amazon threat intelligence teams have uncovered a new trend tha...

Check out this AWS Security Blog article on cyber-enabled kinetic targeting, highlighting research presented at CYBERWARCON by David Magnotti and Dlshad Othman from Amazon Threat Intelligence.

Read the full article here: aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...

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!

AI slop is everywhere now - including embedded inside influence campaigns.

So what can this tell us about adversarial actors online?

Graphika analysts recently tackled that topic at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social and in our new report Cheap Tricks, High Impact: graphika.com/reports/chea...

Huge thank you @domaintools.bsky.social for being an exhibiting sponsor at CYBERWARCON this year!

We truly could not put on such a successful conference every year without the help of our sponsors.

AI slop is everywhere - including embedded inside influence campaigns online.

Graphika analysts recently tackled that topic at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social and in our new report Cheap Tricks, High Impact.

To read the full report: graphika.com/reports/chea...

Big thanks to @chainalysis.bsky.social for being an exhibiting sponsor!

We truly appreciate the help and support of all of our sponsors for making CYBERWARCON such a success!

Big shoutout to our exhibiting sponsor VMRay for supporting us this year at CYBERWARCON!

We had such a great turnout this year with amazing sessions and a great day of community! We couldn't do it without the support of sponsors like VMRay!

Shout out to our exhibiting sponsor @vulncheck.bsky.social!

We really appreciate their support for CYBERWARCON this year! Thank you to our sponsors for making this amazing conference possible.

Big thanks to @sentinelone.com for being a presenting sponsor at CYBERWARCON 2025.

Your support fuels the research, conversations, and connections that make this community so strong.

#Graphika team members had an amazing experience connecting with everyone and presenting their talks this week on AI-powered influence operations and Pro-Iran narratives at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social.

We're already looking forward to next year!
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That's a wrap on CYBERWARCON 2025!

Thank you so much everyone for another great year, we appreciate all of our amazing speakers, generous sponsors, and dedicated volunteers. We also want to thank all of our attendees, whether you joined in-person or virtually.

A picture of the evolution of warfare rising from early primate with a bone all the way to a threat developer hunched over a laptop.

Really digging this year’s CYBERWARCON logo

A slide at CYBERWARCON from Emerson T. Brooking with images of article headlines that point to enshittification and predictions on how AI is the next frontier of enshittification.

Emerson T. Brooking of the Atlantic Council predicts that genAI is the next frontier of enshittification which will attract state threat actors in particular. AI optimization will supplant search engine optimization, he says.

Oh joy more powerful enshittification ahead. #cyberwarcon

True story: the talks were so damn good at cyberwarcon that I now cannot focus