Editor's note

Black Hat USA 2025 is returning for its 28th year, covering the latest in infosec for technical experts, thought leaders, innovative vendors and cybersecurity pros.

The two-day main event -- to take place August 6-7 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas -- features more than 100 sessions on a plethora of topics: large language model (LLM) and agentic AI security and exploits, pwning AI providers, IoT security, autonomous vehicle resilience and smart automation, identity and access management, user phishing training, passwordless, and network security. Topics like fraudulent North Korean IT workers, red teaming and lateral movement attacks are also on the agenda.

Four days of specialized trainings, August 2-5, will cover the latest in hacking techniques, AI security and safety, threat detection and incident response, and more. This year marks the inaugural Financial Services Summit, as well as the second annual AI Summit and Innovators & Investors Summit. It also includes the 11th annual CISO Summit and fifth annual Omdia Analyst Summit.

Informa TechTarget's editorial team will be on-site to report from the conference, keeping readers updated on the latest news.

1Black Hat USA 2025 pre-conference coverage

Last year's Black Hat USA conference covered a range of essential topics, from LLM threats, ransomware negotiations and election security to cyber-physical security threats, VPN attacks and generative AI coding tool risks. Here are an array of highlights here for you to get up to speed and prep for this year's event.