Name: SANS@Night - A Current Look at the Threat Landscape, and How AI Plays a Role
Start: 2025-12-14
End: 2025-12-14

In this talk we will take a look at the most recent attack techniques, targets, and trends. This includes understanding what kind of malware and illicit access items are available on the dark web for sale and how it can be the first sign of a breach, social engineering attacks, and the latest on 0-day and n-day vulnerability research.&nbsp;Artificial Intelligence is an aggressively growing area where we can both use the technology as an attack aid to help us to be more effective in our attacks (Offensive AI), as well as the new attack surface that comes with the technology (Adversarial AI), such as attacking chatbots and LLM&#8217;s.

In this talk we will take a look at the most recent attack techniques, targets, and trends. This includes understanding what kind of malware and illicit access items are available on the dark web for sale and how it can be the first sign of a breach, social engineering attacks, and the latest on 0-day and n-day vulnerability research. Artificial Intelligence is an aggressively growing area where we can both use the technology as an attack aid to help us to be more effective in our attacks (Offensive AI), as well as the new attack surface that comes with the technology (Adversarial AI), such as attacking chatbots and LLM’s.