COUNTERMEASURE26 Talk

TALK: What Still Works: Malware Analysis in the Age of Agents

This talk explores AI’s benefits and pitfalls in malware analysis, emphasizing the role of domain expertise. Using LegionLoader as a case study, it covers agent-assisted unpacking, C2 analysis, and extraction of cryptographic keys and indicators.

TALK: Understanding ORBs, proxies and geospatial data exfiltration

This session examines proxy and relay infrastructure used to collect and exfiltrate geospatial data, covering its design, purpose, daily operations, national security implications, network observations, and potential attribution of backend interfaces.

COUNTERMEASURE26 Talk

TALK: Beyond Autonomous Cyber: From Autonomous Silos to Mission Assurance at Machine Speed

Cybersecurity’s autonomous capabilities often operate in silos. Introducing Autonomous Mission Assurance: a human-governed architecture connecting development, operations, validation, compliance, remediation, and monitoring through shared context, evidence, orchestration, and bounded autonomy.

COUNTERMEASURE26 Talk

TALK: Break it, Catch it, Harden it: AI Agents Running a Full-Cycle Detection Pipeline

CCCS presents an LLM-driven purple-team pipeline that automates detection engineering, adversarial testing, telemetry validation, hardening, and triage. The talk examines architecture, failure modes, and which capabilities genuinely improved analyst effectiveness.

COUNTERMEASURE26 Talk

KEYNOTE // Bruce Dang, Calif.io

AI's capabilities in bug discovery, exploitation, and reverse engineering have made Linux kernel exploits cost < $20, and OpenBSD exploits no longer rare. This keynote discusses applying frontier models to computer security problems, successes and failures, future challenges and preparations.

COUNTERMEASURE26 Talk

TALK: The Edge Is Burning

Examines perimeter device compromises through a real-world edge appliance intrusion, showing how attacker tactics have evolved, why these cases are hard to investigate, and how defenders can improve visibility, readiness, and response.