DEF CON DC Talks Table

List of DEF CON talks in Tracks 1 thru 5

Villages and other Creators events are listed on the Creator Pages

One page  DC Talks Long List with Descriptions

1.1 Million Cameras, One Wildcard: Architectural Surveillance in an IoT Cloud
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8 Out of 10 Banks in Belgium HATE This One Weird eID RCE
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A Provider for the MOFia – Distributed Post-Ex Capabilities
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Beyond the Ceremony: The 2026 Passkey Attack Surface
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Bird Hunting Season: The Final Flight
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BLE Theft Auto: How a Dealer-Installed Anti-Theft System Exposes Over a Million Cars to Theft
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Breaking Hardware CFI with Sigreturn
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Breaking into Amazon lockers by any means necessary
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Breaking Local AI Runtimes: Exploiting llama.cpp and Ollama
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Breaking the Ethereum Phone: From BootROM to Wallet Signing Keys
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Bring Your Own Root Of Trust
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Bring-Your-Own-EDR – Breaking Windows Process Protection to build EDR-Protected Malware
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BTR Reforged: Weaponizing Defender’s Remediation Driver as a Kernel Operation Primitive
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C(2)YA: Inside the Adversary’s Inbox
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Can AI do novel security research? Meet the HTTP Terminator
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Car Hacking Village Scavenger Hunt Contest
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Certified Re-Pwned: escalating all the way up
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Chaining Logical Bugs for Reliable Windows LPE
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Chaining Microsoft Binaries to get Privileged Primitives in the Windows kernel
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CloudBashing: Exploiting free CloudShells for mining, networking, exfil, and persistence at scale
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Compounding Interest: Exploiting the ATM Supply Chain
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Contest Closing Ceremonies & Awards
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Cracking North Korea’s Information Control: How Smugglers, Defectors, and Technologists are Breaking Open the World’s Most Locked-Down Information System
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Crashing the Party: Pwning Control-Flow Integrity with Segmentation Fault-Oriented Programming
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CRLF-Powered Desync Attacks: Beheading HTTP streams
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CUDA’ve done better – Hacking Nvidia GPUs for container-escape and privilege escalation
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Data Tomb Raider: Raiding Modern AI Vaults with Legacy Flaws for Treasure Stealing
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DC101
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DEF CON Closing Ceremonies & Awards
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DEF CON Franklin: What worked, what didn’t, and how we are giving agency to water utilities at the top of every bad guy’s target list because of data centers
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Dylib Hijacking on macOS: Dead or Alive?
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ESP32 as a counter-surveillance platform
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Fireside Chat with Gen. Paul Nakasone
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Forgotten but Not Gone: Unauthenticated RCEs and LPEs in Legacy Linux Services
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From Fuzzer Noise to a Weaponized PHP Exploit: Exploiting a PHP Use-After-Free Vulnerability
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From square root to /root: escalating privileges in Azure containers with Python in Excel
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From Wind Farm to CHP Plant: The Untold Story of Lateral Movement in a Polish Energy Sector Attack
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Get Set, Exploit! Unveiling Python Class Pollution In-the-Wild
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Going the Distance: Long-Range Keystroke Injection via Meshtastic
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Gone in 60 Frames – USB Video Exploitation
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Gotta Catch ‘Em All: How To Capture 3.5 Billion WhatsApp Accounts
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Gotta Phish ‘Em All! Novel Attack Techniques via Persistent Browser-in-the-Middle
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gpwn: Wiretapping fiber (GPON) ISP deployments from the comfort of your home
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Hacking AI
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Hacking Jetskis – from Sea-Don’t to Sea-Doo
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Hacking the EOD Bot: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Boomba
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Hacking the Government: How Two Researchers Turned Late-Night Boredom Into a National Audit
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Hacking the Hackers who Hack Hackers: Supply-Chain Backdoors in Underground VPN Infrastructure
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Hacking Your Life with AI Can Get You Hacked: How AI Orchestration Platforms Ship RCE by Design
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Harvest Now, Decrypt Later: Practical Attacks on Post-Quantum Cryptography Implementations
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High Voltage Heist: Turning Your EV into my Power Bank
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How much of our Bluetooth firmware reverse engineering work can now be automated with LLMs?
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Identity Crisis: Novel Vulnerabilities leading to Kerberos Downgrade, DoS, and Full Domain Takeover
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Install Me Maybe: Turning Claimable VS Code Extension IDs into Supply-Chain Attacks
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Keychained Melody – Grabbing the Keys to the iCloud Kingdom
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LaunchBreak: a Sip of Tea, a Click, and a Full Multi-stage Desktop Takeover
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Lessons from a decade of building whistleblower tech
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LGTM: Bypassing an LLM Build Gate When Prompt Injection Fails
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Lights Out: Out-of-Band, Out of Mind, Out of Control
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Looking and Peering: Attacking from beyond BGP Adjacency
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Lowering the Orbit: Exploiting Satellite Protocols and communications via Software-Defined-Radio and GS
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Memory Laundering via Metal: What EDR Can’t See on Your Mac
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MSIX’d Up: Weaponizing the Modern Windows App Packaging Ecosystem
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No Prompt Required: Pre-Task RCE in Google Gemini CLI
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No Socket, No Privs, No Problem: Weaponizing OCI Registries for SSRF, Credential Theft, and Container Escapes
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noRecognition: Could a pattern on your clothing fool Facial Facial Recognition?
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OffGuard: Breaking the Most Popular AI Gateway from Auth Bypass to Cloud Compromise
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One Chain to Own Them All — Breaking AI Infrastructures
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Patch Gap to Mobile Renderer RCE: Pwning Samsung Internet’s V8 on the Galaxy S25
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Plug And Pwn: Weaponizing Windows PnP Auto-Install
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Pwning Rekordbox: Unauthenticated filesystem access in the world’s most popular DJ software
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Rage Against the Sandbox: Bypassing Apple’s iOS Security to Run Unsigned Code via SSH
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Reflections on Disregarding Trust (Weaponizing CDP and MHTML for Header-Agnostic Session Hijacking)
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Reversing a Recall: From ‘Noise Triggered’ to RCE
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Riding for Free – Breaking Public Transport RFID at Scale
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Root From Kilometers Away: Ubiquiti AirMax RCE
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Shepherding the Tor network
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Shopping Is The Attack: A Decade Of E-Commerce Scalper Wars, And The Multi-Agent AI Era
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Sliding into the Flight Deck’s DMs: Practical Message Attacks on CPDLC
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Smile, you’re on camera! Livestreaming from North Korea’s IT workers laptop farm
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Stalking the Wily Hacker … 40 years later
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Taking on the Dark Fleet… in Cyberspace!
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Talkers Without Borders: Worldwide Free Speech without an Internet Connection
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Taming the Swarm: Hard Architectural Lessons from Building a Deterministic Agentic Web Pentesting System
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TEE.fail: Breaking Trusted Execution Environments via DDR5 Memory Bus Interposition
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Texas Incidents – How we broke the OMAP-L138 Trusted Execution Environment
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The 2026 Pwnie Awards
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The Compiler That Can’t Read: Crashing Every 5G Phone With One Byte
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The DEF CON 34 Badge
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The Enclave is Lying to You: Breaking TEE Trust Boundaries Through Boot-Time State
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The Ghost Key: Illusions of “Time Management” in TTLock Smart Locks
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The Glass Perimeter: Systematic Bypasses in Biometric Frameworks and the Rise of Synthetic Identity
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The Sandbox is a Suggestion: Deconstructing AI Agent Sandboxes
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The Stream Is Dead, Long Live the Stream: How HTTP/2 Lets Dead Streams Keep Servers Working
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Thin Client? Thin Crypto – Bypassing Full-Disk Encryption Across Three Major Thin Clients Vendors without Breaking a Cipher
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This Message Was Sent by Microsoft: Turning Microsoft Apps into our Phishing Platform
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Throw Out the Alphabet: Token-Based Markov Chains for Password Cracking
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Tracking the Trackers: How We Took Over 36 Million GPS Devices Protecting Children and Vehicles
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Transformers: Dark Side of the Type – Weaponizing the Conversion Layer
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Very Pwned: Hacking Verifone’s card machine three times in a row
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WASM Was Not the Boundary: Sandcastles, Not Sandboxes
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Weaponizing Uselessness: Breaking SMM with the Slowest Instruction Ever Written
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Welcome to DEF CON 34!
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What is the Right Balance of Rules for Defenders & Adversaries? Determining which dual-use model restrictions make sense and which only disarm defenders
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Witchcraft Solver: Automated 0day Discovery in Stripped Binaries
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Wrestling with a Python: Escaping Copilot Studio’s AI-Guarded Sandbox
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Writing to Shadow Stacks
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You’ve Got Mail (That Was Meant For No One)
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Your Bank Thinks I’m You: A Complete Kill Chain Against Mobile Banking Security
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Your OTP Never Arrived: Attacking the Trust Boundary Where SMS Meets the Internet
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Your Packets Are Showing: Hybrid Quantum ML for Passive OS Fingerprinting
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Your WAF Blocked Us, That Was The Exploit – Remote Agent Takeover via Cloudflare, Sentry and Claude Zero-Day for data exfil
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Zero-Day Provisioning: Chaining TP-Link ZTP Vulnerabilities for Infiltrating Networks
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