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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 shared 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.