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While the furor from CISO prosecutions has died down, worries continue over a lack of liability protections and potential targeting by cybercriminals and hackers for their privileged roles.

Trend Micro's Salvatore Gariuolo talks with the Black Hat USA 2025 News Desk about how the new ISO 15118 standard for electric vehicle smart charging and vehicle-to-grid communications can be weaponized by threat actors.

Noah Michael Urban, 20, was one of several members of the Scattered Spider collective who were arrested and charged in 2024 in connection with high-profile cyberattacks.

By using brief, plain clues in their prompts that are likely to influence the app to query older models, a user can downgrade ChatGPT for malicious ends.

Sam Collins and Marius Muench of the University of Birmingham, UK, join the Black Hat USA 2025 News Desk to explain how anti-cheat systems in video games provide valuable lessons on defending against threat actors' techniques and strategies.

NCC Group's David Brauchler III shares how foundational controls and threat modeling strategies can help secure agentic AI tools in ways traditional guardrails can't.

New research highlights how threat actors abuse legitimate virtual private server offerings in order to spin up infrastructure cheaply, quietly, and fast.

Quick recovery relies on three security measures.

Teenaged security researchers Sasha Zyuzin and Ruikai Peng discuss how their new vulnerability discovery framework leverages LLMs to address limitations of the past.

Attackers will continue to evolve, and the help desk will always be a target. But with the right mix of training, support, and trust, frontline agents can become your biggest security assets.

Logging netflows provided valuable insight about attacker tactics during a breach by state-sponsored hackers targeting Columbia's research labs.

DARPA's Kathleen Fisher discusses the AI Cyber Challenge at DEF CON 33, and the results that proved how automation can help patch vulnerabilities at scale.

At one point, Al-Tahery Al-Mashriky was hacking thousands of websites within the span of three months while stealing personal data and sensitive information.

Detailed spear-phishing emails sent to European government entities in Seoul are being tied to North Korea, China, or both.

The goal of the Quantum-Safe Program is to ensure that by 2033 all Microsoft products and services are safe by default against quantum-based attacks.

The dangers are particularly severe when they secure IT positions with privileged access and administrative permissions.

The vulnerabilities themselves aren't new, but are being exploited in a novel manner that could lead to a "devastating attack."

Researchers highlight how Warlock, a new ransomware heavyweight, uses its sophisticated capabilities to target on-premises SharePoint instances.

Some LLM-created scripts and emails can lower the barrier of entry for low-skill attackers, who can use services like Lovable to create convincing, effective websites in minutes.

In the past year, "Static Tundra," aka "Energetic Bear," has breached thousands of end-of-life Cisco devices unpatched against a 2018 flaw, in a campaign targeting enterprises and critical infrastructure.